News & Media
What term describes journalists who exposed corruption and injustice during the Progressive Era?
Muckrakers
What is the term for workers refusing to work to demand better conditions?
Strike
What laws enforced racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction?
Jim Crow Laws
What is the term for the right to vote?
Suffrage
What is the study of how people behave in groups and how societies create/follow rules?
Sociology
What book exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry?
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
What is the process in which unions negotiate wages and conditions with employers?
Collective bargaining
Which Black leader promoted vocational education and economic success before demanding full civil rights?
Booker T. Washington
What amendment granted women the right to vote?
19th Amendment
What bias leads people to favor information that supports their pre-existing beliefs?
Confirmation bias
Which journalist investigated the monopolistic practices of Standard Oil?
Ida Tarbell
What major 1911 workplace disaster led to improved safety regulations?
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
What movement saw over 1.5 million Black Americans move north to escape racism and find jobs?
The Great Migration
Who led the Silent Sentinels protests in front of the White House?
Alice Paul
What persuasion technique makes people feel like they must conform because “everyone else is doing it”?
Bandwagon effect
What photojournalist published How the Other Half Lives to expose tenement housing conditions?
Jacob Riis
What nationwide 1894 railroad strike led to federal intervention and violence?
Pullman Strike
What organization, co-founded by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1909, worked to advance civil rights?
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
What was the name of the large 1913 march in Washington, D.C. for women’s suffrage?
Women’s Suffrage Parade
What term describes the discomfort people feel when confronted with information that challenges their beliefs?
Cognitive dissonance
What persuasive technique changes how something is presented and sounds to make it seem better or worse.
Framing
What term describes efforts by businesses to prevent workers from unionizing?
Union Busting
What Supreme Court case upheld segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine?
Plessy v. Ferguson
What suffragist co-founded the National Association of Colored Women to fight for Black women’s rights?
Ida B. Wells
What psychological term describes when people hesitate to take action because they assume someone else will?
Bystander effect