Vocab/Key Terms
Rights for the PEOPLE
People
Law
A little bit of this, a little bit of that
100
Crowded urban dwellings where most immigrants lived in during the Gilded Age
Tenements
100
Trashketball Bonus Question: What is Suffrage?
Right to Vote
100
This muckraker uncovered the the corruption of big bosses like John D. Rockefeller.
Ida Tarbell
100
This allowed citizens to send proposed legislation to state legislatures for approval.
What is an inititative?
100
This event claimed the lives of 146 people and forced companies to make working conditions safer.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
200
Belief in the policy of minimum or limited governmental interference in economic affairs
Laissez-Faire
200
1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create important organizations to be pushing for more and more political power for African Americans. Believed in the idea of the "talented tenth" for African Americans.
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
200
Trashketball Bonus Question: Journalists and reporters who exposed corruption and problems in cities and around the country.
Muckrakers
200
Trashketball Bonus Question: This state reform allowed the removal of a politician through a special election.
Recall
200
Trashketball Bonus Question: were state and local laws passed from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the mid-1950s by which white southerners reasserted their dominance by denying African Americans basic social, economic, and civil rights, such as the right to vote.
Jim Crow Laws
300
Trashketball Bonus Question: The political machine of Tammany Hall in NYC was led for many years by this corrupt politician
Boss Tweed
300
Civil Rights leader that argued that African Americans should achieve their rights through focusing on job training, education, and improving themselves within the black community.
Who is Booker T Washington?
300
This investigative journalist and photographer exposed the exploitation of immigrant workers in the citizens by taking pictures of immigrant life.
Jacob Riis
300
Trashketball Bonus Question: The Sherman Antitrust and Clayton Antitrust Laws were the first legislation to battle the control big business had over certain industries. What is it called when one company has complete control over one industry?
Monopoly
300
Trashketball Bonus Question: With the work of Jane Addams and other progressives, the amount of children in ______________, rose from 6.5 million in 1870 to 17.3 million in 1900.
Public School
400
Trashketball Bonus Question: President Teddy Roosevelt's 3 major goals for America was called ______ deal.
Square
400
Trashketball Bonus Question: W.E.B. DuBois co-founded a national organization for the advancement of African American citizens.
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
(N.A.A.C.P)
400
Trashketball Bonus Question: Ida B. Wells was a journalist and reporter who traveled to southern states and exposed this horrific practice of racist southern whites.
Lynching
400
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were two influential members of the Suffrage Movement which eventually led to this amendment
19th Amendment
400
The three Progressive President's.... (Name 2)
Who is Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson?
500
the act of consciously and efficiently using land and/or its natural resources. This was a big part of Roosevelt's policies.
Conservation
500
This amendment banned alcohol in the U.S.
18th Amendment
500
Trashketball Bonus Question: Upton Sinclair wrote in his book "The Jungle" about the horrible conditions in what industry?
Meat Packing (Food)
500
This Amendment provided for the direct election of US Senators
17th Amendment
500
This state reform allows citizens to vote on proposed laws.
What is a referendum?