Progressive era Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
poll tax | Tax on african americans to prevent them from voting |
Literacy test | To see if african americans can read of right |
jim crow laws | laws in the south to inforce segregatoin |
initiative | allows voters to propose laws |
19th amendment | gave women right to vote |
W.E.B. Dubois | co-founder of NAACP |
Plessy vs. Ferguson | Supreme Court case that legalized segregation |
Political Machine | powerful organizations that used legal but mostly illegal methods to control voters and cities. Not an elected official. |
Progressives | reformers working to improve society and fix problems caused by industrialization in the late 1800s and early 1900s |
muckrackers | a group of journalists, novelists and photographers |
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