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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 |
| Whose investigate report exposed the business practices of Standard Oil? | Ida Tarbell |
| Who wrote about the urban slums in "How the Other Half Lives"? | Jacob Riis |
| Who wrote about the corruption of the political machines in "The Shame of the Cities"? | Lincoln Steffens |
| 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 |
| Which progressive cause became the law under the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified? | prohibition of alcohol (temperance) |
| What hardships did farmers face in the West? | falling crop prices and high railroad shipping rates |
| 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 |
| What did Populists hope the result of an "easy" or "loose" money policy based on bimetallism would be? | inflation--rising crop prices |
| Which legislation was passed to regulate the railroads? | Interstate Commerce Act |
| What policy was promoted in the "Cross of Gold Speech" by Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 presidential campaign? | bimetallism |
| 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 |
