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Which event drew attention to the issue of unsafe working conditions in sweatshops during the early 1900s? | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire |
What were the journalists who supported progressive causes called? | muckrakers |
What was exposed by Jacob Riis's photographs and stories in "How the Other Half Lives"? | urban poverty (in NYC tenements) |
What issue did Upton Sinclair draw attention to in "The Jungle"? | meatpacking industry/sanitation |
Which progressive movement emphasized providing charity to the poor? | Social Gospel |
The establishment of Hull House is an example of the Social Gospel movement promoted by which individual? | Jane Addams |
Which amendment established the federal income tax? | Sixteenth Amendment |
Which amendment resulted in the direct election of U.S. Senators? | Seventeenth Amendment |
Which amendment resulted in women's suffrage | Nineteenth Amendment |
Which case is an example of Theodore Roosevelt's "trust-busting"? | Northern Securities v. U.S.; American Tobacco v. U.S. |
What policy did President Roosevelt use to protect the environment? | conservation |
What acts were part of Roosevelt' "Square Deal"? | Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, railroad regulation |
What progressive reforms was Wisconsin's Robert M. LaFollette known for? | primary elections and railroad regulation |
What progressive reforms were used to reduce the power of political machines? | primary elections, direct election of U.S. Senators, secret ballot |
What party was formed to support President Roosevelt's campaign for president in 1912? | Progressive/Bull Moose party |
Who won the presidential election of 1912? | Woodrow Wilson (Dem.) |
What was the name of the labor union leader who ran as the Socialist party candidate for president in 1912? | Eugene V. Debs |
What act was passed under Woodrow Wilson to regulate the nation's banking and financial system? | Federal Reserve Act |
What act was passed under President Woodrow Wilson to strengthen the government's ability to stop trusts from forming monopolies? | Clayton Antitrust Act |
Which new forms of city government were developed during the progressive movement of the early 1900s? | council-manager and commission forms |
Which leader supported vocational education to improve African-American society? | Booker T. Washington |
Which African-American leader demanded immediate social and political equality? | W.E.B. Dubois |
Which organization was formed to fight for the civil rights of African-Americans? | NAACP |
What methods were used in Southern states to disenfranchise African-Americans? | poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses |
What laws were passed in Southern states to discriminate against African-Americans? | Jim Crow |
Give an example of a tactic used to terrorize and control African-Americans in the late-1800s and early-1900s | lynching |
This word means "to limit or take away one's right to vote" | disenfranchise |
What practice was supported by the Supreme Court's ruling in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson? | segregation |
List an economic reform supported by the Progressive movement | regulating big business, lower tariffs, anti-trust laws ("trustbusting") |
Which progressive cause became the law under the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified? | prohibition of alcohol (temperance) |
What political party was formed by farmers' alliances? | the Populist party |
List the economic reforms supported by the Populists. | government regulation of the railroads, bimetallism |
What money policy was supported by big business and urban interests? | Gold standard |
What money policy was supported by the Populists? | bimetallism |
Which legislation was passed to regulate the railroads? | Interstate Commerce Act |
Which presidential candidate supported increased business regulation and bimetallism in the elections of 1896 and 1900? | William Jennings Bryan (Dem) |
Which political party supported the gold standard that was favored by business and urban interests? | Republican party |
Who won the presidential election of 1896? | William McKinley (Rep.) |
Which political party adopted the ideas of the Populists? | Democratic party |
Which act was passed to restrict the forming of monopolies? | Sherman Anti-trust Act |