Progressive Era

Question 1

Muckrakers~

Answer 1

Journalists who exposed corruption and problems in society

Question 2

“The Jungle” ~

Answer 2

The book that brought to light the issues and conditions in the meat packing industry

Question 3

Direct Primary~

Answer 3

~Citizens vote for candidates
~Started in Wisconsin
~Robert M. La Follette

Question 4

Initiative~

Answer 4

Citizens can put a proposed new law directly on the ballot in the next election by collecting voters’ signatures

Question 5

Referendum~

Answer 5

Citizens can approve or reject all laws passed by the legislature

Question 6

Recall~

Answer 6

Permits public officials from office before the next election

Question 7

17th Amendment~

Answer 7

Direct election of senators

Question 8

Socialism~

Answer 8

~A political and economic theory of a social organization

~Production, distribution, and exchange should be regulated and owned by community as a whole

Question 9

Square Deal~

Answer 9

In order to give all people fair treatment Roosevelt reforms in consumer protection, conservation of resources, and control of corporations

Question 10

Significance of the Coal Strike of 1902~

Answer 10

~Roosevelt said “To hell with the Constitution when the people need coal”
~Coal miners stopped working
~One of the first times the president became more involved

Question 11

Trusts~

Answer 11

Legal boy created to hold stock in many companies, often in the same industry~ in order to obtain a monopoly

Question 12

Meat Inspection Act~

Answer 12

Meat must be packed under sanitary conditions and from healthy animals

Question 13

Pure Food and Drug Act~

Answer 13

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of falsely labeled food and drugs

Question 14

1906 American Antiquities Act~

Answer 14

Certain land and landmarks would be designated as “monuments” or parks

Question 15

Taft’s Presidency~

Answer 15

~Increased tariffs
~Busted many trusts
~Did not do as much in conservation 
~Appoints Ballinger
~Fires Pinchot

Question 16

Why did Wilson win the election of 1912?

Answer 16

~Similar to “Square Deal” called for reform

1) lowered tariffs significantly
2) Clayton anti trust act-federal trade commission
3) financial reform~ protects the value of money and credit, controls amount printed

Question 17

Federal Trade Commission~

Answer 17

Monitors and investigates any bad behavior by business

Question 18

Federal Reserve Act~

Answer 18

~The federal reserve established a permanent system of money using notes (dollar bills)
~Protects the value of money and credit
~Control the amount of money printed

Question 19

Clayton Anit-Trust Act~

Answer 19

Banned the purchase of stock by companies with the intention on forming a monopoly

Question 20

NAACP

Answer 20

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Question 21

Booker T. Washington~

Answer 21

~Believed that education and economic progress for minorities was more important than equality
~Economic power leads to respect and power
~Established the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to teach skills and trades

Question 22

W.E.B. DuBois~

Answer 22

~Disagreed with Washington
~Political and social equality needs to be established before there can be economic success
~ NACCP
~ Formed out of a group of educated black intellectuals sought to use law and courts as a means to achieve equality

Question 23

Suffrage~

Answer 23

Right to vote

Question 24

Susan B. Anthony~

Answer 24

~Abolition, temperance, suffrage
~Led National Suffrage Association
~Revolution's motto
~Wrote the Susan B. Anthony 19th Amendment 
~First American women on the US coin

Question 25

Alice Paul~

Answer 25

~ ph. D. in political science
~ Organized suffrage parade in DC
~ Co-founded NWP
~ Pushed for a Constitutional Amendment
~ Arrested for peaceful protests
~ Wrote Equal Rights Amendment

Question 26

19th Amendment~

Answer 26

“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex”

Question 27

How did Teddy Roosevelt strength in the role of the president?

Answer 27

~ He believed that the president needs to be more actively involved in politics, the economy, and society in order to create a more fair society
~ “Square Deal”

Question 28

In order to give all people fair treatment Roosevelt reforms in:
Consumer protection~

Answer 28

~ New laws in order to secure a fair prices and quality of products

Question 29

In order to give all people fair treatment Roosevelt reforms in:
Conservation of natural resources~

Answer 29

~ As industry grew, land and resources were consumed more than ever before
~ TR believed the government is responsible for managing land and it’s own conservation
~ 1906 American Antiquities Act

Question 30

In order to give all people fair treatment Roosevelt reforms in:
Control of corporations~

Answer 30

~ “Trustbusting”
~ TR was the first to enforce the Sherman Anti-Trust Act which forbid the formation of monopolies in big businesses- corporations would attempt to monopolize through the formation of trusts
~ Using the Sherman Anti-Trust Act TR broke up trusts and aggressively attacked large corporations specifically oil and railroads

Question 31

Problems of the Gilded Age~

Answer 31

~Rich people had more power than the government had
~More people knew the rich business men than they knew the president
~Government wasn’t involved much in society