Progressive Era

Question 1

Constituents

Answer 1

the voters whom an elected official serves

Question 2

initiative

Answer 2

is a means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can force a public vote

Question 3

recall

Answer 3

is a procedure by which, in certain polities, voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before that official’s term has ended.

Question 4

referendum

Answer 4

a direct vote in which an entire electorate is invited to vote on a particular proposal

Question 5

direct democracy

Answer 5

a form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly.

Question 6

political reformers

Answer 6

government officials working toward eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in government.

Question 7

Progressive Era

Answer 7

a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned from the 1890s to the 1920s.

Question 8

16th Amendment

Answer 8

Income Tax

Question 9

17th Amendment

Answer 9

Direct Election of Senators

Question 10

18th Amendment

Answer 10

Prohibition of alchohol

Question 11

19th Amendment

Answer 11

Women’s Suffrage (right to vote)

Question 12

Assimilation Programs

Answer 12

government programs aimed at assimilating minority groups with predominant American culture

Question 13

communism

Answer 13

a governing system advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

Question 14

eugenics

Answer 14

the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics.

Question 15

eugenics

Answer 15

an economy driven by buyer (consumer) spending

Question 16

Nativism

Answer 16

the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.

Question 17

Social Darwinism

Answer 17

theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals.

Question 18

Alien Reds

Answer 18

immigrants who promote communists and socialism in America

Question 19

Red Scare (first)

Answer 19

a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events included the Russian Revolution and anarchist bombings.

Question 20

Prohibition

Answer 20

the prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, especially in the US between 1920 and 1933.

Question 21

organized crime

Answer 21

a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals who intend to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for money and profit

Question 22

emigration

Answer 22

the act of leaving one’s own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad.

Question 23

famine

Answer 23

extreme scarcity of food.