Journalism
Journalists who exposed corruption in business and politics were known as what?
Muckrakers
Due to Mayors being corrupt, who did city councils turn to to run cities?
City Manager
Insurance that protects workers when they are hurt on the job is called what?
Workers Compensation
What Amendment allowed for an income tax that was based off of a persons salary - The more you earn the more you pay?
16th Amendment
The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote where:
Across the entire country.
Jacob Riis wrote what book on what subject?
How the Other Half Live - about the living conditions in tenement buildings.
The procedure whereby voters can remove an elected official from office.
Recall
What did Roosevelt mean by having a "Square Deal"
He promised to be fair to all people, rich or poor.
What important job does the Federal Reserve Board have in the United States?
It is responsible for the nations monetary policy.
The Eugenics movement believed that it could make American better how?
By not allowing criminals to have children because they would pass on their bad traits.
Because of the book, The Jungle, the government passed what?
Meat Inspection Act and The Pure Food and Drug Act
Election to help choose candidates for major elections.
Direct Primary
What was the nickname given to Theodore Roosevelt because he broke up Monoploies?
Trustbuster
A Federal Agency that was empowered to prevent a person or cooperation for using unfair methods of competition (like referees)?
Federal Trade Commission
What does Suffrage mean?
The right to vote.
The History of the Standard Oil Company was written by who and was about what?
Ida Tarbell and it was about how Rockefeller cheated to become rich.
True or False - Political machines were for a fair election?
FALSE
True or False: United Mine workers went on strike because they wanted all of the following from the mine workers.
FALSE! They wanted shorter working hours, safer working conditions, and raise in pay.
True or False - The 18th Amendment was for prohibition?
TRUE
What did the National Women's Party members do that upset President Wilson?
They protested in front of the white house
Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle, was about what?
The gory details of the meatpacking industries.
What is it called when voters vote on an actual law (usually to spend money)?
Initiative
What did Theodore Roosevelt do to help end the mineworker's strike?
Had the miners and owners discuss how to end the strike at the White House.
True or False - The Prohibition (18th Amendment) banned the consumption of alcohol.
FALSE - it banned the sale, the transportation, and the manufacturing of alcohol.
Why was Seneca Falls in New York is important to the women's movement?
Because it was the first large meeting of the women's suffrage movement.
Lincoln Steffens wrote what book about the corruption in city government?
The Shame of the Cities.
In order to cut down on corruption in government, the U.S. passed the 17th amendment that allowed for what?
The direct election of senators.
What was the outcome of the United Mineworke's strike?
Each group (the miners and the mine owners) got a little of what they wanted.
The Clayton Anti Trust Act gave the government more power to break up monopolies but did what when it came to Unions?
Protected Unions from being labeled as a monopoly on work.
Alice Paul
Lewis Hines took pictures of who and he was from where?
Children working in factories and he was from Oshkosh, WI.
What party did Theodore Roosevelt run against Taft under?
After leaving the republican party he ran under the Bullmoose Party
True or False - President Taft was the speaker of the house at one point.
FALSE - That was a roll he never held.
True or False - Conservationists believed that wilderness should not be touched.
TRUE
One of the first women who advocated for a women suffrage amendment.
Susan B. Anthony.