Module 14

Question 1

Progressive movement

Answer 1

Social reform movement in the early -20th century

Question 2

Florence Kelley

Answer 2

Social reformer who worked to help women and children

Question 3

Prohibition

Answer 3

Making the sale or use of alcohol illegal

Question 4

Muckraker

Answer 4

Writer who exposes wrongdoing

Question 5

Scientific Management

Answer 5

using scientific ideas to make work more efficient

Question 6

Henry Ford

Answer 6

Changed manufacturing with the introduction of the Model T automobile and the use of assembly lines

Question 7

Robert M. La Follette

Answer 7

Progressive Wisconsin governor and senator

Question 8

Initiative

Answer 8

The procedure by which citizens can propose a law

Question 9

Referendum

Answer 9

A way for people to approve changes in law by a vote

Question 10

Recall

Answer 10

A vote on whether to remove a unlicensed official from office

Question 11

Seventeenth Amendment

Answer 11

Amendment providing for senators to be elected directly

Question 12

Booker T. Washington

Answer 12

Prominent African American educator

Question 13

Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute

Answer 13

School headed by Booker T. Washington

Question 14

W.E.B. Du Bois

Answer 14

First African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard

Question 15

Niagara Movement

Answer 15

Insisted that blacks should seek a liberal art education so that the African American community would have well educated leaders

Question 16

Ida B. Wells

Answer 16

African American reformer who tied to end lynching through her reporting

Question 17

Poll tax

Answer 17

Money one had to pay in order to vote

Question 18

Grandfather clause

Answer 18

Clause that allowed poor, uneducated whites to vote e

Question 19

Segregation

Answer 19

The word used to describe racial separation

Question 20

Jim Crow laws

Answer 20

Laws that helped keep whites and blacks separated

Question 21

Please v. Ferguson

Answer 21

Court case that upheld the Jim Crow laws

Question 22

Debt peonage

Answer 22

A system in which a person is forced to work to pay off debts

Question 23

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 23

United States President from 1901 to 1909

Question 24

Square Deal

Answer 24

President Theodore Roosevelt’s program for progressive reforms

Question 25

The Jungle

Answer 25

Novel by Upton Sinclair describing meatpacking

Question 26

Upton Sinclair

Answer 26

Novelist who exposed social problems

Question 27

Meat Inspection Act

Answer 27

Law reforming meatpacking conditions, 1906

Question 28

Pure food and drug act

Answer 28

Law to stop the sale of unclean food and drugs, 1906

Question 29

Conservation

Answer 29

The planned management of natural resources

Question 30

NAACP

Answer 30

National Association for the Advancement of Colored people, founded in 1909 to work for racial equality.

Question 31

William Howard Taft

Answer 31

President from 1909 t0 1913; successor to Theodore Roosevelt

Question 32

Payne - Aldrich Tariff

Answer 32

Bill meant to lower tariffs on imported goods

Question 33

Gifford Pinchot

Answer 33

Head of the U.S. Forestry service under Roosevelt, who believed that it was possible to make use of natural resources while conserving them

Question 34

Bull Moose Party

Answer 34

Nickname for the new Progressive Party, which was formed to support Roosevelt in the election of 1912.

Question 35

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 35

Winner of the 1912 presidential election

Question 36

Clayton Antitrust Act

Answer 36

Law that weakened monopolies and uphold the rights of unions and farm organizations

Question 37

Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

Answer 37

A federal agency set up in 1914 to investigate businesses to help enforce regulatory laws

Question 38

Federal Reserve System

Answer 38

National banking system begun in 1913

Question 39

Carrie Chapman Catt

Answer 39

President of NAWSA (National American Women Suffrage Association) who led the campaign for women;s suffrage during Wilson’s administration.

Question 40

Nineteenth Amendmne t

Answer 40

Amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to vote