Progressive Era Vocabulary

Question 1

Temperance Movement

Answer 1

A movement led by women to ban alcohol

Question 2

Progressives

Answer 2

People who think society can be made better by making big changes to it

Question 3

Suffrage

Answer 3

The right to vote

Question 4

Muckrakers

Answer 4

Journalists who exposed corruption in business and politics

Question 5

Trust

Answer 5

A group of businesses working together to not compete

Question 6

Monopoly

Answer 6

A company or trust that controls an industry entirely (e.g. if there was only one phone company, streaming service, shoe company)

Question 7

Trust Busting

Answer 7

Breaking up trusts and monopolies to allow smaller companies to compete

Question 8

16th Amendment

Answer 8

Allows the federal government (not just the state) to tax people’s income (e.g. take part of your paycheck)

Question 9

17th Amendment

Answer 9

U.S. Senators have to be elected directly by the people instead of by state governments

Question 10

18th Amendment

Answer 10

Made alcohol illegal (selling or making), started Prohibition

Question 11

19th Amendment

Answer 11

Gave women suffrage

Question 12

21st Amendment

Answer 12

Made alcohol legal again (ended Prohibition)

Question 13

Pure Food and Drug Act

Answer 13

Banned harmful and misrepresented food and drugs (medicine), regulated the manufacture and sale of drugs (medicine)

Question 14

Sherman Antitrust Act

Answer 14

Prohibited businesses from working together in ways that impacted interstate or international trade

Question 15

Clayton Antitrust Act

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Made the Sherman Antitrust Act stronger by preventing businesses from merging or using prices to hurt smaller companies

Question 16

Strike

Answer 16

A labor union stopping work to try and force a company to give in to its demands

Question 17

Labor Union

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A group of workers acting together to get better pay and working conditions

Question 18

Regulation

Answer 18

The government setting rules for what businesses can do

Question 19

Reform

Answer 19

Change (for the better)

Question 20

NAACP

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A group fighting for equal rights and eliminate racial prejudice (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

Question 21

Lynching

Answer 21

Public, unlawful murder by a mob. In US history, usually done to Black people who were accused of breaking Jim Crow laws or norms

Question 22

Donkey (symbol)

Answer 22

The symbol for Democrats

Question 23

Elephant (symbol)

Answer 23

The symbol for Republicans

Question 24

Skulls, skeletons, crossbones, etc.

Answer 24

Symbols for death

Question 25

Political cartoons

Answer 25

Cartoons that have the goal of changing your opinion or informing you of something

Question 26

Comics

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Cartoons just meant for fun or without a political purpose

Question 27

Propaganda

Answer 27

Anything designed to influence your opinion (usually more systematic)

Question 28

Doves, olive branches

Answer 28

Symbols for peace

Question 29

Temperance Movement

Answer 29

A movement to get people to stop drinking alcohol