Acts and Amendments
Urbanization
Politics
The Power of the Pen
Extras
200

This Amendment guaranteed the rights of citizenship to anyone born or naturalized in the United States

14th Amendment

200

Immigrants left their homes to come to American cities in search of what specifically?

Jobs/Work/Economic Opportunities

200

This election reform allowed all registered party members to vote in order to pick their candidate for an election

Primaries 

200

Nickname for journalists who sought to uncover and expose the problems of society like corruption in politics and industry to advocate for change. Examples of these journalists are: Ida Tarbell, Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair, and Ida Wells

Muckrakers (Muck-Rakers)

200

Is Mr. Lee married?

Yes

400

This Act was signed in 1862 and granted 160 acres of free land to anyone willing to move West who worked the land for 5 years. It's main purpose was to encourage the settlement of the American West.

Homestead Act

400

What caused a water and sewage crisis, shortage of housing, and an increase in tenement homes/slums?

Rapid Population Growth of Cities

400

The "Square Deal" which included breaking up trusts with the enforcement of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, the Meat Inspection Act, and the Pure Food and Drug Act are associated with this President.

Theodore Roosevelt

400

This muckraker wrote "The History of Standard Oil" to expose the ruthless business practices and monopoly of Standard Oil Company and its leader John Rockefeller

Ida Tarbell

400

Who is the worst, most evil baseball team in the world

The Yankees

600

This Amendment outlawed the sale, manufacture, transportation, and consumption of alcohol.

18th Amendment

600

Most of the major cities that became manufacturing and transportation hubs were located in the Midwest/Northeast. Which of the following cities are not in the Midwest/Northeast? A) Pittsburgh, PA B) Cleveland, OH C) Portland, OR D) Chicago, IL

C) Portland, OR

600

Elections where citizens get to vote on approving a bill in the state legislature are called what?

Referendums

600

Muckraking journalist who wrote "The Jungle" as a way to expose the horrid conditions of workers in meatpacking plants and the unsanitary conditions that caused its consumers to get sick

Upton Sinclair

600

Mr. Lee's favorite basketball team

Boston Celtics

800

The 19th Amendment was passed in 1919 and granted this group of people the right to vote

Women

800

The name of the immigration station in New York Harbor that processed immigrants arriving from Europe during the Progressive era is: 

Ellis Island

800

Voting to remove and elected official is called: 

Recall

800

The lynchings of African-Americans in the South led this muckraker to advocate for Anti-Lynching Legislation 

Ida Wells

800

How many dogs does Mr. Lee have

0

1000

The direct election of senators is associated with this amendment

17th Amendment

1000

These "homes" were found in major cities, but they were more like cramped, poorly built, disease infested apartments that were occupied the urban poor and newly arrived immigrants in cities like New York and Chicago

Tenement Homes

1000

These are elections when citizens vote to propose a new law, statute, or Amendment

Initiatives

1000

Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul were leaders of this movement to advocate for the right for women to vote

Suffragette Movement

1000

Despite its name, this store does not *just* sell cheese

The Cheese Shop