Ch.7 The Progressive Era

Question 1

Temperance

Answer 1

Not drinking alcohol yourself and preaching about it

Question 2

Muckraker

Answer 2

Reporters who exposed dirt or corruption

Question 3

Referendum

Answer 3

Voters could accept or reject measures that the state legislature enacted

Question 4

Recall

Answer 4

Allowed voters to remove incompetent elected officials

Question 5

Initiative

Answer 5

Voters could place an issue on the ballots in a state election

Question 6

Sherman antitrust act

Answer 6

The first federal law to control trusts and monopolies

Question 7

Ida Tarbell

Answer 7

Exposed the oil trust’s unfair practices

Question 8

Upton Sinclair

Answer 8

Described the horrors of the Chicago meat packing industry

Question 9

Jane Addams

Answer 9

Set up
Hull House( a settlement house)
Pioneered social work

Question 10

Suffragist

Answer 10

People who fought for women’s right to vote

Question 11

Prohibition

Answer 11

Laws that would ban make no or selling alcohol

Question 12

19th amendment

Answer 12

Gave women the right to vote in 1920

Question 13

Trustbuster

Answer 13

Someone who breaks up trusts into smaller companies

Question 14

Square Deal

Answer 14

Fair and equal treatment for all

Question 15

Conservation

Answer 15

The protection and preservation of the country’s natural resources

Question 16

Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency

Answer 16

Conservation
Consumer protection
Control over corporations

Question 17

Election of 1912

Answer 17

• the Republican Party was split
• Taft vs Roosevelt
• Democrat candidate was Woodrow Wilson
• progressive candidate was Roosevelt
• Taft won republican vote

= Woodrow Wilson won

Question 18

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

Answer 18

Terrorized African Americans during reconstruction

Wanted to restore whit Protestant America

We’re against
•Jews
•African Americans 
•Catholics
•Immigrants

Question 19

W.E.B DuBois

Answer 19

Worked for African American rights and was the first African American to receive a doctoral degree from Harvard

Question 20

Booker T. Washington

Answer 20

Taught himself to read

Founded the Tuskegee Institute that taught African Americans farming and industrial skills