Progressive Era

Question 1

Regular Journalist

Answer 1

Report what actually happened

Question 2

Muckrakers

Answer 2

Goal is to expose

Question 3

Yellow journalist

Answer 3

Very bias

Question 4

U.S.S. Maine

Answer 4

Went to Cuba
Assumed Spain blew it up, started Spanish American War
Sank in the Havana Harbor

Question 5

Spanish American War

Answer 5

Sinking of the Maine started the war
use of stream power was introduced
Put a tax on Spanish sugar

Question 6

Triangle Shirtwaist

Answer 6

The fire that exposed poor work conditions

Question 7

Seneca Falls Convention

Answer 7

1848
Held by Mott and Stanton
First national women’s rights convention
Greater education for women

Question 8

Horizontal Integration

Answer 8

Big companies buying out small companies

Question 9

Monopoly

Answer 9

When (Starbucks) own all coffee shops

Question 10

Women’s Suffrage

Answer 10

Rights to vote 1920

Paid $1,500 a week

Question 11

Hull house

Answer 11

House for European immigrants

Question 12

Temperance Movements

Answer 12

Women led movement to ban alcohol

1851

Question 13

Margaret Sanger

Answer 13

Less children->better family life

Opened first place for birth control

Question 14

Tammany Hall/Boss Tweed

Answer 14

Political organization

Boss tweed would use it to corrupt

Question 15

Pullman Workers strike

Answer 15

Rail car conditions
25% pay cuts
1894 retaliation