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Nickname of the investigative journalists who exposed the problems of the Gilded Age
Who are the Muckrakers?
The 1890 law that was the first to limit monopolies restricting free trade
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
The nickname of the businessmen who dominated the Gilded Age more than the politicians
Who are the “Captains of Industry” OR “Robber Barons?”
The author from whom the term “Gilded Age” was borrowed?
Who is Mark Twain? The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
The Progressive President who tackled the unsanitary conditions in meat packing plants, railroad monopolies, and unsafe drug products
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The man who ran unsuccessfully for the presidency three times as a Democrat and was known for the attack on the gold standard in the “Cross of Gold” speech
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
The reformer who highlighted the poor and unsanitary living conditions of the urban tenements with his photography
Who is Jacob Riis?
The reformer who was known for the expose of Standard Oil in the book, The History of Standard Oil
Who is Ida Tarbell?
The Amendment that both Susan B. Anthony and Jane Addams strongly supported
What is the 19 th Amendment? (Women’s Suffrage)
The Amendment that changed the method of electing the U.S. Senators from selection by the state legislatures to direct election by the people
What is the 17 th Amendment?
The electoral reform that allowed the voters to place a proposed law on the ballot
What is initiative?
The 1913 Act of Congress that resulted in a major reform of the American banking system
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
The tax that was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company, 1895
What is the income tax?
The rule that was established by the 1896 Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson
What is “separate but equal?”
The amendment that was used in Weeks v. United States (1914) to establish the exclusionary rule
What is 4 th Amendment?
The rule that was established in the 1919 Supreme Court case, Schenck v. United States to deal with First Amendment and free speech
What is the clear and present danger rule?
The President elected in 1916 with the campaign rally cry that “He kept us out of war.”
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The political party of Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 presidential election
What is the Bull Moose or Progressive Party?
The only man who has served as President of the United States and Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Who is William Howard Taft?
The Socialist party candidate who ran for the presidency in 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, and in 1920 while he was in prison
Who is Eugene B. Debs?
The controversial part of Wilson’s Fourteen Points that caused the Senate to reject the Treaty of Versailles
What is the League of Nations?
The General who was sent to capture the bandit Pancho Villa and later was served as the Commander of the American forces in World War I
Who is General John Pershing?
The three territories gained by the United States after the Spanish American War
What are Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico?
The policy added to the Monroe Doctrine asserting the right of the U.S. to police the Western Hemisphere
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Preservation and Conservation
The act that allowed the President to bypass Congress and establish “historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest” as national monuments
What is the Antiquities Act of 1906?