A | B |
Trust groups | This groups was unhappy with the outcome of the northern securities case |
What did President Roosevelt support? | conservation of natural resources, the Pure Food and Drug Act, and the Meat Inspection Act |
What was the chief goal of the Women's Christian Temperance Union? | The ban of the sale of alcohol |
In the late 1800s some southern states gave women the right to hat? | Vote |
What was the purpose of the recall and the initiative? | To give voters more power over government |
What did Progressives support? | Direct elections of senators, graduated income tax, and presidential primaries |
What did the Seventeenth amendment achieve? | That Senators were elected directly |
President Cleveland took steps to regulate railroads by getting Congress to do what? | They set up the Interstate commerce Commission |
Why was the Civil Service Commission set up? | To tame the Spoils System |
Who campaigned for suffrage? | Carrie Chapman Catt |
Who led the Progressive Movement in Wisconsin? | Robert La Follette |
Who help set up the NAACP? | W.E.B. Du Bois |
Who was a powerful and corrupt city boss? | William Tweed |
Who revealed gruesome practices of the meatpacking industry? | Upton Sinclair |
Muckrakers | Reporters who wrote about corruption |
What did they call Roosevelt when he tried to regulate giant companies | A Trustbuster |
What gave voters the power to make a bill become a law? | A Referendum |
Voters choose a party's candidate in a what? | Primary |
Who were women who campaigned for the right to vote? | Suffragists |
What was the Federal Trade Commission set up to do? | Stop companies from using unfair business practices |
What book was most responsible for the Meat Inspection Act of 1906? | The Jungle |
What was the purpose of the Tuskegee Institute? | To teach the practical skills to black students |
What does the Wisconsin Idea refer to? | Reforms that many Progressives wanted |
Who was attacked in Thomas Nast's cartoons? | William Tweed |
People who hold federal jobs are part of what? | The Civil Service |
What gave voters the right to introduce a law for the state legisture to vote on? | An Initiative |
What was set up to regulate the railroad industry? | The Interstate Commerce Commission |
What gave Congress the power to impose an income tax? | The Sixteenth Amendment |
What required certain manufacturers to list ingredients on packages? | The Pure Food and Drug Act |
What party supported Theodore Roosevelt for President? | The Bull Moose Party |
What regulated the banking industry? | The Federal Reserve Act |
The Civil Service Commission required job seekers to do what? | Pass exams |
What did Lincoln Steffens write about in The Shame of the Cities? | Political Corruption |
Who were some of the muckrakers who wrote about corruption and injustice? | Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Jacob Riis |
What did the Progressives believe in? | Public Interest |
Why did some western states give women the right to vote? | They recognized the role of women building the West. |
"Say No To Alcohol" - expresses the goal of whom? | Carry Nation |
Who might have said, "The rights of the public to natural resources outwiegh private interests and must be given first consideration"? | Theodore Roosevelt |
What did the Northern Securities case show that President Roosevelt would do? | That he would stand up against trusts |
What did Woodrow Wilson want the Federal Trade Commission to do? | Control big business |
What did La Follette organize? | The Wisconsin Idea |
What did Theodore Roosevelt organize? | The Square Deal |
What did Woodrow Wilson organize? | The New Freedom |
Who was the founder of the Tuskegee Institute? | Booker T. Washington |
What did the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Gentlemen's Agreement show? | Americans were determined to limit immigration from Asia |
Why did the Mexican Americans form mutualistas? | To defend themselves against violence |
Who were muckrakers? | Writers who exposed the evils and the corruption in politics |
What did the Nineteenth Amendment provide for? | The direct election of senators |