Module 22

Question 1

Political Machines

Answer 1

a powerful organization that influenced city and county politics in the late 1800s. Used tactics such as helping the urban poor.

Question 2

Initiative

Answer 2

a method of allowing voters to propose a new law if enough signatures are collected on a petition

Question 3

Recall

Answer 3

a vote to remove an official from office

Question 4

Direct Primary

Answer 4

Voters choose candidates.

Question 5

Referendum

Answer 5

a procedure that allows voters to approve or reject a law already proposed or passed by government

Question 6

Ways reformers and Labor unions improved working conditions?

Answer 6

minimum wage laws,commission was created to establish rates for child workers, Labor leaders and reformers also fought for workers’ compensation laws, which guaranteed a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job, organized strikes, worked to restrict womens work hours

Question 7

AFL

Answer 7

one of the strongest labor unions. The AFL focused on better working conditions and pay for skilled workers. Gompers supported the American economic system of capitalism,

Question 8

ILGWU

Answer 8

organized unskilled laborers. In 1909, the garment workers called for a mass strike known as the “Uprising of the 20,000.” The strikers won a shorter workweek and higher wages. They also attracted thousands of workers to the union.

Question 9

IWW

Answer 9

Its goal was to organize all workers into one large union that would overthrow capitalism.

Question 10

Samuel Gompers

Answer 10

leader of the AFL

Question 11

William “Big Bill’ Haywood

Answer 11

one of the leaders of the Industrial Workers of the World, a socialist labor union active in the early 1900s

Question 12

Eugene V. Debs

Answer 12

believed in socialism and led socialists

Question 13

16th amendment

Answer 13

It gave the federal government the power to collect income tax.

Question 14

17th amendment

Answer 14

It said that United States Senators would now be directly elected by popular vote

Question 15

18th amendment

Answer 15

a constitutional amendment that outlawed the production and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States; repealed in 1933

Question 16

19th amendment

Answer 16

a constitutional amendment that gave women the vote

Question 17

W. E. B. dubois

Answer 17

NAACP’s director of publicity and research and starting the organization’s official journal, The Crisis, in 1910.

Question 18

Booker T. Washington

Answer 18

African American educator and civil rights leader, he was born into slavery and later became head of the Tuskegee Institute for career training for African Americans. He was an advocate for conservative social change.

Question 19

Ida B Wells

Answer 19

African American journalist and anti-lynching activist, she was part owner and editor of the Memphis newspaper Free Speech.

Question 20

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 20

Twenty-sixth president of the United States after William McKinley was assassinated, he organized the first volunteer cavalry regiment known as the Rough Riders who fought in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. As president, he acquired the Panama Canal Zone and announced the Roosevelt Corollary, making the United States the defender of the Western Hemisphere.

Question 21

William howard taft

Answer 21

Twenty-seventh president of the United States, he angered Progressives by moving cautiously toward reforms and by supporting the Payne-Aldrich Tariff, which did not lower tariffs very much. He lost Roosevelt’s support and was defeated for a second term.

Question 22

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 22

Twenty-eighth president of the United States, his reform legislation was given the name New Freedom, and it included three constitutional amendments: direct election of senators, prohibition, and women’s suffrage. He created the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Trade Commission, and he enacted child labor laws.