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Progressive Era
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An Upton Sinclair book about Chicago's meat-packing industry | The Jungle |
| Organization that protects and supports African-Americans | NAACP |
| Amendment that invented the nation's income tax | 16th Amendment |
| Amendment that gave women voting rights | 19th Amendment |
| A minority fought for their voting rights in this movement | Women's suffrage movement |
| Where one race is separated from another race | Segregation |
| 26th President and part of the Rough Riders | Theodore Roosevelt |
| To kill someone by hanging for no apparent reason | Lynching |
| Group of journalists that exposed society's problems. Examples: Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis, Ida Tarbell | Muckrakers |
| Amendment where voters can elect Senators without the Government | 17th Amendment |
| Supreme Court case that enforced segregated areas are as good as the areas for whites. | Plessy V Ferguson |
| Movement to protect the world's natural resources | Conservation movement |
| A "progressive party" formed by President Roosevelt after he lost to Taft. | Bull Moose Party |
| Support for the improvement of society | Progressives |
| Voters can remove an official through voting | Recall |
| Used to break up monopolies | Trustbusting |
| Conservation, Control of Corporations, Consumer Protection | Square Deal |
| Allowed citizens to bypass state legislature | Initiative |
| Direct vote whether to approve or repeal a law | Referendum |