The Progressive Era

Question 0

What does gilded mean?

Answer 0

Something that looks good on the outside but when you look closer, it is junk in the middle

Question 1

What was the progressive era nicknamed as?

Answer 1

“The Gilded Age”

Question 2

What were the problems of the progressive era? 5

Answer 2

• spoil system
• corrupt politicians
• corruption in big businesses
• poverty
• public looses faith in government

Question 3

What is are bosses?

Answer 3

Corrupt politicians that run cities

Question 4

What did bosses do?

Answer 4

Accepted $ while awarding contracts for construction jobs in the cities

Question 5

Why were bosses popular with the poor?

Answer 5

They gave the poor gifts and the poor don’t know better

Question 6

Who is Boss Tweet?

Answer 6

A boss in NY, stole more than $100 million from the city

Question 7

What are recall elections?

Answer 7

The people could vote to remove corrupt or incompetent politicians from office

Question 8

What is an example of a recall election?

Answer 8

Gov. Arnold Swartz, in Cali

Question 9

What is an initiative?

Answer 9

The people could propose a bill to the legislature to possibly become a law

Question 10

What is referendum?

Answer 10

The people directly vote on a proposed law

Question 11

What did the 16th Amendment do?

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•graduated income tax

• federal government can collect a tax on your income
• graduated- the rich pay more than the poor

Question 12

What did the 17th Amendment do?

Answer 12

•direct election of senators

Question 13

What happened before the 17th amendment was ratified?

Answer 13

Each states legislature had chosen the senators(corruption usually played a role in their choice)

Question 14

What were muckrakers?

Answer 14

Crusading journalist who were exposing corruption

Question 15

Who were some famous muckrakers?

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• Ida Tarbell
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair

Question 16

What did Ida Tarbell do?

Answer 16

Wrote about the unfair practices of Rockefeller

Question 17

What did Jacob Riis do?

Answer 17

Took pictures of slum life in tenements

Question 18

What did Upton Sinclair do?

Answer 18

Wrote The Jungle, which exposed conditions in the meat packing industry

Question 19

What is suffrage?

Answer 19

The right to vote

Question 20

What was the women’s suffrage movement??

Answer 20

Women fighting for the right to vote

Question 21

What did the 19th Amendment do?

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Gave women the right to vote

Question 22

What were women’s clubs?

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Started out as social gatherings- knitting or cooking together. Then they became more organized and started to discuss women’s rights

Question 23

What was the Temperance Movement?

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Movement hat started to outlaw alcohol

• wanted to stop domestic and alcohol abuse

Question 24

What was the temperance movement known as?

Answer 24

End of urbanization

Question 25

What did the 18th amendment do?

Answer 25

It made it illegal to make, transport, or possess alcohol

Question 26

What does the 18th amendment start?

Answer 26

Prohibition

Question 27

How are urbanization and he temperance movement?

Answer 27

Alcohol was available in taverns

Question 28

What was Theodore Roosevelt called?

Answer 28

The great progressive

Question 29

What was the square deal?

Answer 29

Roosevelt promised that everyone would have be same chance to succeed in America- everything would be square(fair)

Question 30

What was his nicknamed?

Answer 30

The trustbuster

Question 31

What is a trustbuster?

Answer 31

A person who works to destroy monopolies and trusts

Question 32

What did teddy think about trust?

Answer 32

He thought the trusts were hurting American economy and Americas freedom

Question 33

Roosevelt the union supporter

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* helped miners get better working conditions * conservation * established the national forest service * national parks

Question 34

What is conservation

Answer 34

Protection of natural resources

Question 35

Roosevelt protecting consumers

Answer 35

Pure food and drug act(1906)

Question 36

The election of 1908

Answer 36

Roosevelt didn't want to run again, Taft won easily

Question 37

Who was the democratic nominee for the election of 1912

Answer 37

Woodrow Wilson

Question 38

Who was the republican nominee for the election of 1912

Answer 38

William Howard Taft

Question 39

Who was the progressive party(bull moose party) nominee for the election of 1912?

Answer 39

Theodore Roosevelt