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Progressive Era
Social Studies-Grade 8-Progressive Era
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Muckrakers | People who write or draw about the bad in things through newspapers, magazines, or books |
| Lincoln Steffens | Wrote “Shame of the cities” |
| Jacob Riis | Wrote “How the other half lives” about immigration and slums |
| Upton Sinclair | Wrote “The Jungle”about the meat packing industry |
| Ida Tarbell | Wrote about the unfair business practices of standard oil (McClures Magazine) |
| Grover Cleveland | President that signed the Interstate Commerce Act |
| Benjamin Harrison | President that prohibited trusts or other businesses from limiting competition (Sherman Anti Trust Act) which led to many problems in the court system |
| William McKinley | President that had Teddy Roosevelt as the VP. Got assassinated |
| Teddy Roosevelt | VP that became president and believed in good and bad trusts |
| Chester A. Arthur | Passed the Civil Service Act- which made people take exams for federal jobs |
| Woodrow Wilson | A progressive democrat and didn’t split his votes like Roosevelt and Taft did |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | First president to take action against the spoils system |
| Howard Taft | President that broke up many trusts and set up new safety regulations. Last to have a cow in the white house |
| Alice Paul | Marched on to the white house for women’s suffrage |
| Carry Nation | Woman a part of the temperance movement |
| Susan B. Anthony | One of many women who started the women’s suffrage movement |
| Carrie C. Catt | Reporter and principal who helped get women to vote in western states |
| Referendum | Allowed to vote the bill into law at the next election |
| Recall | Voters can remove an elected official from office |
| Initiative | Gave voters the right to put a bill directly before legislature. (for the people) |
| Primary | When voters choose their party’s candidate for the general election |
| 16th Amendment- Income Tax | Gave congress the power to impose income tax |
| 17th Amendment- Senate | People can elect direct officials of senators |
| 18th Amendment- Alcohol | Gave the right for alcohol |
| 19th Amendment- Women | right for women to vote |
| Thomas Nast | Cartoonist that drew negative political cartoons about Tweed |
| William Marcy Tweed | Product of Tammany hall and stole/cheated money |
| Gilded age | Another word for the progressive era (coined by Mark Twain) |
| Second Coming of Democracy | Another word for the progressive era |
| Tammany Hall | (Political machine) place/machine where democrats vote |
| Sherman Anti-Trust act | Act that prohibited trusts, pools, or monopolies |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | Required food and drug makers to list ingredients on their packages |
| Meat Inspection Act | Act in which a certain amount of meat is inspected before being shipped off |
| Interstate Commerce Act | Act that regulates RR |
| New Freedom | Breaks up trusts into smaller companies to restore competition |
| Name the two political symbols for the Republican and Democratic Party | -Democratic Donkey -Republican Elephant |
| Who started the spoils system? | Andrew Jackson |
| Where was most voting done during the early 1900’s? | Bars/Pubs |
| What is Prohibition? | To forbid something/ to ban |
| Who is Charles Guiteau? | Assassinated President Garfield |
| Who assassinated William McKinley? | Leon Czolgosz |
| Who wrote “Up From Slavery”? This person also established the Tuskegee Institute. | Booker T. Washington |
| W.E.B. Dubois created this organization for African Americans? | (NAACP) National Association for the advancement of colored people |
| President Roosevelt signed this agreement with Japan to lessen the amount of Japanese workers entering the country. | Gentlemen’s Agreement |
| What was the square deal? | Deal Roosevelt gave to farmers, consumers, workers, and owners to have an equal opportunity to succeed |
| Adamson Act | Act that gave RR workers 8 hr work days |
| Temperance Movement | Movement against alcohol which led to violence and hardship. |
| Jim Crow Laws | Segregation in money aspects that gave low paying jobs |
| Ida B. Wells | Wrote a book about misfortune called “Free Speech” |
| Clayton Anti Trust Act | Act that strengthened the Sherman Anti Trust Act |
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