Unit 5 Study Guide Flashcards
(20 cards)
Who was the former slave who promoted industrial education and economic activity to gain black civil rights?
Booker T Washington
What Supreme Court decision legitimized the doctrine of racial segregation known as “Separate but Equal”?
Plessy v. Ferguson
The first two decades of the 20th century unknown for what?
Progressive reforms in society
What is the name of the Upton Sinclair novel that exposed the unsanitary conditions of Chicago’s meatpacking industry?
The Jungle
Journalists and authors like Sinclair that exposed problems in society in an effort to push for reforms were known as what?
Muckrakers
What reforms occurred as a result of the Progressive movement?
-Direct Election of Senators
-Pure Food and Drug Act
-Labor Reforms
which amendment established a federal income tax?
16th
what amendment established the prohibition of alcohol?
18th
what amendment established a female suffrage?
19th
what amendment established the direct elect of senators?
17th
Before the passage of the amendment that established women’s suffrage, women had gain the right to vote in what area of the country?
West
what was a part of Theodore Roosevelt’s square deal?
-consumer protection
-control of corporations
-environmental conservation
what was Theodore Roosevelt known for?
-building the panama canal
-fighting in the spanish american war
-being a cowboy out west
-creating national parks
Who were in the presidential election of 1912?
-theodore roosevelt
-howard taft
-woodrow wilson
before the panama canal treaty, the isthmus of panama was originally part of what country?
colombia
over 5,000 workers died building the panama canal. what was the leading cause of death?
mosquito born illnesses
how did the engineers who built the panama canal solve the problem faced by the culebra mountain?
a system of locks
roosevelt believed that the united states role as protector of latin american was a logical corollary to what?
monroe doctrine
before being the first people to fly, orville and wilbur wright owned what kind of company?
bike shop
what did woodrow wilson’s administration accomplish?
