Progressivism

Question 1

Muckraker

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Reporters and writers who exposed government corruption and the abuses of big business

Question 2

Suffrage

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The right to vote

Question 3

16th Amendment

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Established the federal income tax

Question 4

17th Amendment

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The direct election of U.S. Senators. Made government more responsive to the people

Question 5

18th Amendment

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The prohibition of alcohol

Question 6

19th Amendment

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The right to vote for women

Question 7

Initiative

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Procedure by which citizens can propose a law to be placed on a ballot.

Question 8

Referendum

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A vote on an initiative

Question 9

Recall

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Procedure by which citizens can propose a new law to be placed on a ballot

Question 10

Ida B. Wells

Answer 10

African American journalist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s

Question 11

Conservation

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Creation of National Park System by the Antiquities Act signed by Roosevelt in 1906 provided for the preservation of wilderness area

Question 12

Meat Inspection Act

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Regulation of the preparation of foods and the sale of medicines

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Pure Food and Drug Act

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Series of laws in 1906 protecting food and drugs in the United States , first of its kind

Question 14

Bull Moose Party

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Roosevelt’s political party in the election of 1912

Question 15

Susan B. Anthony

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Leader of women’s suffrage movement

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W.E.B. Du Bois

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Early civil rights leader and founder of NAACP

Question 17

Upton Sinclair

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Author of the jungle, muckracker

Question 18

Woodrow Wilson

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The last president of the Progressive Era. Passed the Clayton Antitrust Act which continued to crack down on monopolies