Unit 2 Progressive Era

Question 1

Voters can propose legislation directly for a popular vote.

Answer 1

Initiative

Question 2

The right to vote

Answer 2

Suffrage

Question 3

Making changes to address abuse of injustice

Answer 3

Reform

Question 4

The legislature “refers” a matter back to the people for a vote

Answer 4

Referendum

Question 5

People who believed the US could be reformed socially and politically

Answer 5

Progressives

Question 6

A way to remove elected officials from office before the end of their term

Answer 6

Recall

Question 7

Early 20th century journalists exposed corruption & abuses in politics and society.

Answer 7

Muckrakers

Question 8

Illegal hanging; usually done to blacks by Southern white racists

Answer 8

Lynch

Question 9

a relationship between persons in which one has the power to manage property and the other has the privilege of receiving the benefits from that property

Answer 9

Trust

Question 10

Law that creates the Graduated Income Tax

Answer 10

16th Amendment

Question 11

Direct election of senators

Answer 11

17th Amendment

Question 12

Law that outlaws alcohol

Answer 12

18th Amendment

Question 13

Women’s right to vote

Answer 13

19th Amendment

Question 14

Believed in immediate equality; One of the founders of the NAACP

Answer 14

W.E.B. Dubois

Question 15

Believed in working to gain equality.

Answer 15

Booker T. Washington

Question 16

Were state and local laws passed from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the mid-1950s by which white southerners reasserted their dominance by denying African Americans basic social, economic, and civil rights, such as the right to vote.

Answer 16

Jim Crow Laws

Question 17

Louisiana passed a law that forced African Americas to sit in a separate train cart. Plessy, a 1/8 African American man, got him self purposefully arrested by buying a first class ticket, and planning it with the train company. They argued that it violated the 13th and 14th amendment. After loosing in lower courts, the supreme court upheld the lower courts decisions.

Answer 17

Plessy V. Ferguson