Reformers
Who cofounded the Hull House, Chicago’s first settlement house; this initiated the Settlement House movement, a movement that sought to improve the lives of the poor and help assimilate immigrants?
Who is Jane Addams
Which progressive president established over 230 million acres as national parks and forests?
Who is Theodore Roosevelt
What state reform created a way for citizens to propose a new law by gathering signatures on a petition?
What is Initiative
Which movement sought to limit or prohibit alcohol, and revived by women in the Progressive Era as they gained more political influence?
What is the Temperance movement
Which Amendment was ratified in 1920, prohibiting voting discrimination on the basis of gender; giving women suffrage, or the right to vote?
What is the Nineteenth Amendment
Who promoted vocational training as a means for African Americans to attain better futures?
Who is Booker T. Washington
Roosevelt read the Jungle which led to him to work with Congress to pass which piece of legislation to protect consumers as part of his Square Deal
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act
What is the method used to measure candidate competency?
What is Civil Service Exam
What was blamed for societal issues including poverty, crime, and family violence?
What is Alcohol Abuse
Disappointed with Taft’s performance, Roosevelt decided to run for president as a third-party candidate for which party?
What is the Bull Moose Party
Who founded NAACP to provided legal support to African Americans and secure rights guaranteed by the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments?
Who is W.E.B. DuBois
President Taft oversaw the passage of which amendment, that allowed congress to enact a national income tax?
What is the Sixteenth Amendment
What state reform is a measure that allowed citizens to vote directly on the initiative?
What is Referendum
What banned the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors” in the United States
What is the Eighteenth Amendment
What established a merit system to ensure that federal positions would be filled based on merit, or qualification, rather than political affiliation?
What is the Pendleton Act
Who is the muckraker that wrote The Jungle, exposing unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry?
Who is Upton Sinclair
Which progressive president enacted the Organic Act, establishing the National Park Service to ensure that federally protected land and its resources were conserved so they could be enjoyed by the public?
Who is President Wilson
What state reform is a way for citizens to remove elected officials from office by holding a special vote?
What is a Recall
What were hidden and illegal saloons and nightclubs that sold alcohol?
What are Speakeasies
What Supreme Court ruling stated that racial segregation was constitutional as long as the facilities provided were “separate but equal”?
What is Plessy V Ferguson
Who drafted the Declaration of Sentiments and headed the Seneca falls convention?
Who is Elizabeth Cady Staunton
What are the 3Cs of the Square Deal?
What are Conservation, Consumer Protections, and Control of Corporations.
At the state level, Progressives aimed to empower citizens with a more direct role in democracy and to hold elected officials accountable to who?
Who are the people
The sale of illegal alcohol provided a steady source of income and power which fueled the growth of what?
What is Organized Crime
What famous women's right activist organized rallies, lobbied politicians, protested, and picketed to draw national attention to women's cause during the Progressive Era?
Who is Susan B. Anthony