History Vocab

Question 1

Powerful organizations of professional politicians that dominated city and county politics

Answer 1

Political Machines

Question 2

Tried to solve problems caused by rapid industrial and urban growth.

Answer 2

Progressives

Question 3

They raked up and exposed the muck, or filth, of society

Answer 3

Muckrakers

Question 4

Allowed Americans to vote directly for U.S. senators

Answer 4

Seventeenth Amendment

Question 5

Remove an official before the end of his or her term.

Answer 5

Recall

Question 6

Allowed voters to propose a new law by collecting signatures on a petition.

Answer 6

Initiative

Question 7

Permitted voters to approve or reject a law that had already been proposed or passed by a government body.

Answer 7

Referendum

Question 8

Decreased the power of political machines.

Answer 8

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Question 9

Guaranteed a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job.

Answer 9

Workers’ Compensation Laws

Question 10

Private businesses run most industries and competition determines the price of goods.

Answer 10

Capitalism

Question 11

A system in which the government owns and operates a country’s means of production

Answer 11

Socialism

Question 12

Its goal was to organize all workers into one large union that would overthrow capitalism.

Answer 12

Industrial Workers of the World

Question 13

Banned the production, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages throughout the United States.

Answer 13

Eighteenth Amendment

Question 14

Promoted the cause of women’s suffrage.

Answer 14

National American Woman Suffrage Association

Question 15

Granted American women the right to vote.

Answer 15

Nineteenth Amendment

Question 16

One of the most important African American leaders

Answer 16

Booker T. Washington

Question 17

Civil rights organization that supports economics and NAACP is a civil rights organization that supports economic and educational equality for African Americans.

Answer 17

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Question 18

Believed that interest of business people, alborers, and consumers should be balanced for the public good.

Answer 18

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 19

This law prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transport of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs.

Answer 19

Pure Food and Drug Conservation

Question 20

Nicknamed the Bull Moose Party because Roosevelt said he was strong as a bull.

Answer 20

Progressive Party

Question 21

Allowed the federal government to impose direct taxes on citizens’ incomes.

Answer 21

Sixteenth Amendment