The Progressive Era - Chapter 17

Question 1

Writer who exposes wrongdoing

Answer 1

Muckraker

Question 2

Amendment providing for senators to be elected directly

Answer 2

Seventeenth Amendment

Question 3

National American Woman Suffrage Association; founded in 1890 to help women win the right to vote

Answer 3

NAWSA

Question 4

President Roosevelt’s program of progressive reforms

Answer 4

Square Deal

Question 5

Social reform movement in the early 20th century

Answer 5

Progressive Movement

Question 6

Law to stop the sale of unclean food and drugs, 1906

Answer 6

Pure Food and Drug Act

Question 7

A way for people to propose laws directly

Answer 7

Initiative

Question 8

President of NAWSA, who led the campaign for woman suffrage during Wilson’s administration

Answer 8

Carrie Chapman Catt

Question 9

A federal agency set up in 1914 to investigate businesses to help enforce the laws

Answer 9

Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

Question 10

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded in 1909 to work for racial equality

Answer 10

NAACP

Question 11

A way for people to approve changes in laws by a vote

Answer 11

Referendum

Question 12

President from 1901 to 1909

Answer 12

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 13

Social reformer who helped win the passage of the Illinois Factory Act in 1893

Answer 13

Florence Kelley

Question 14

The planned management of natural resources

Answer 14

Conservation

Question 15

Law reforming meatpacking conditions, 1906

Answer 15

Meat Inspection Act

Question 16

A vote on weather to remove a public official from office

Answer 16

Recall

Question 17

National Association of Colored Women; founded in 1896 to improve living and working conditions for African-American women

Answer 17

NACW

Question 18

Nickname for the new Progressive Party, which was formed to support Roosevelt in the election of 1912

Answer 18

Bull Moose Party

Question 19

Bill meant to lower tariffs on imported goods

Answer 19

Payne-Aldrich Tariff

Question 20

National banking system begun in 1913

Answer 20

Federal Reserve System

Question 21

Law that weakened monopolies and upheld the rights of unions and farm organizations

Answer 21

Clayton Antitrust Act

Question 22

President from 1909 to 1913, successor to Roosevelt

Answer 22

William Howard Taft

Question 23

Leader of thee woman suffrage movement, who helped to define the movement’s goals and beliefs and to lead its actions

Answer 23

Susan B. Anthony

Question 24

The right to vote; a major goal of women reformers

Answer 24

Suffrage

Question 25

Novelist who exposed social problems

Answer 25

Upton Sinclair

Question 26

Progressive Wisconsin governor and senator

Answer 26

Robert M. LaFollette

Question 27

Head of the U.S. Forest Service under Roosevelt, who believed that it was possible to make use of natural resources while conserving them

Answer 27

Gifford Pinchot

Question 28

Using scientific ideas to male work more efficient

Answer 28

Scientific Management

Question 29

Making the sale or use of alcohol illegal

Answer 29

Prohibition

Question 30

Novel by Upton Sinclair describing meatpacking

Answer 30

The Jungle

Question 31

Amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to vote

Answer 31

Nineteenth Amendment

Question 32

Winner of the 1912 Presidential election

Answer 32

Woodrow Wilson