Module 6

Question 1

a representative of the political machine

Answer 1

A political boss

Question 2

Who headed New York City’s Democratic political machine in the 1860s and 1870s?

Answer 2

William M. Tweed/ Boss Tweed

Question 3

Thomas Nast was Famous for?

Answer 3

exposing William M. Tweed aka Boss Tweed with his political cartoons.

Question 4

Who exposed William M. Tweed/Boss Tweed?

Answer 4

Thomas Nast

Question 5

who was assassinated by an unsuccessful office seeker?

Answer 5

James Garfeild

Question 6

Who wrote the book “The Jungle”?

Answer 6

Upton Sinclair

Question 7

The book “The Jungle” was famous for doing what?

Answer 7

persuade the Congress to pass the Meat Inspection Act in 1906 due to Chicago’s awful meat preserve.

Question 8

who made Americans aware of the extremes of poverty suffered by working people?

Answer 8

Jacob Riis

Question 9

How did Jacob Riis help Americans be more aware of poverty?

Answer 9

By describing the tenement houses ware immigrants lived in New York.

Question 10

Allows voters to remove an official before the end of their term?

Answer 10

Recall

Question 11

a method of allowing voters to propose a new law if enough signatures are collected on a petition

Answer 11

initiative

Question 12

a procedure that allows voters to approve or reject a law already proposed or passed by government

Answer 12

referendum

Question 13

a powerful organization that influenced city and county politics in the early 1800s

Answer 13

political machine

Question 14

How did some people cheat in the elections?

Answer 14

They stuffed ballot boxes, bribed, and did favors

Question 15

an arrangement in which contractors padded the amount of their bill for city work and paid, or “kicked back,” a percentage of that amount to the bosses.

Answer 15

kick backs

Question 16

is a system in which government jobs or favors are given out to political allies and friends.

Answer 16

spoils system

Question 17

a group of reformers who worked to improve social and a group of reformers who worked to improve social and

Answer 17

progressives

Question 18

a term coined for a journalist who “raked up” and exposed corruption and problems of society.

Answer 18

Muckraker

Question 19

exposed the political machines of many cities leading to demand for urban reform.

Answer 19

Lincoln Steffens

Question 20

wrote about the unfair practices of the oil trusts, leading to pressure for more government control over big business.

Answer 20

Ida Tarbell

Question 21

a constitutional amendment allowing American voters to directly elect U.S. senators

Answer 21

seventeenth Amendment

Question 22

a factory fire that killed 146 workers trapped in the building; led to new workplace safety standards laws.

Answer 22

Triangle shirtwaist fire

Question 23

is an economic system in which private businesses run most industries

Answer 23

Capitalism

Question 24

is an economic system in which the government owns and operates a country’s mean of productions

Answer 24

Socialism

Question 25

became head of the WCTU and led a campaign to educate the public about the links between alcohol abuse and violence, poverty, and unemployment.

Answer 25

Francess Willard

Question 26

Carrie Nation broke into saloon and broke bottles and glasses using what

Answer 26

a hatchet

Question 27

was a temperance crusader that entered saloons and broke bottles and kegs with an hatchet

Answer 27

Carrie Nation

Question 28

a constitutional amendment that outlawed the production and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States; repealed in 1933

Answer 28

the eighteenth amendment

Question 29

15th Amendment giving voting rights to

Answer 29

freed men but not women

Question 30

were men and women who fought for women’s rights to vote.

Answer 30

suffragist

Question 31

the first state that allowed women to vote

Answer 31

Wyoming

Question 32

American social reformer, suffragist, and activist, she was the founder of the organization that became the National Woman’s Party (NWP) that worked to obtain women’s suffrage.

Answer 32

Alice Paul

Question 33

a constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote

Answer 33

nineteenth amendment

Question 34

published names of people involved in a lynching and wrote articles about the unequal education for African American children.

Answer 34

Ida B. Wells

Question 35

combinations of companies were becoming too large

Answer 35

trusts

Question 36

McKinley was assassinated when

Answer 36

September 1901

Question 37

how many national parks did Theodore Roosevelt create

Answer 37

5

Question 38

how many National forests did Theodore Roosevelt create

Answer 38

150

Question 39

how may wild life refugees did Theodore Roosevelt create

Answer 39

55