Gilded Age, Populist Movement, and the Progressive Era
Political Machines
Muckrakers
Progressive Reforms
Roosevelt’s Square Deal
Wilson’s New Freedom
Populist Movement
Roosevelt’s Square Deal Political Machines Progressive Reforms Wilson’s New Freedom Populist Movement Muckrakers $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 Final Jeopardy
A New York City political leader, who became a symbol for dishonest behavior in city politics. Incorrect Correct
Who is Boss Tweed? Back to Question Main Board
The political machine in New York City that dominated the Democratic Party. Incorrect Correct
What was Tammany Hall? Back to Question Main Board
The federal legislation that created a system in which federal employees were chosen based upon competitive exams, this made job positions based on merit or ability and not inheritance or class. Incorrect Correct
What is the Pendleton Act? Back to Question Main Board
The practice of giving political jobs to people of the same political party who helped get them elected. Incorrect Correct
What is patronage? Back to Question Main Board
The illegal use of political influence for personal gain. Incorrect Correct
What is a graft? Back to Question Main Board
Exposed the dangerous and unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry Incorrect Correct
Who is Upton Sinclair? Back to Question Main Board
Political cartoonist who exposed the corruption of NYC’s Tammany Hall Ring. Incorrect Correct
Who is Thomas Nast? Back to Question Main Board
Exposed the conditions of the poor and immigrants in urban tenements. Incorrect Correct
Who is Jacob Riis? Back to Question Main Board
Exposed the widespread political corruption in urban governments. Incorrect Correct
Who is Lincoln Steffens? Back to Question Main Board
Exposed the ruthless business practices of Standard Oil and John D Exposed the ruthless business practices of Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller. Incorrect Correct
Who is Ida Tarbell? Back to Question Main Board
Changes the election of Senators from the state legislators to popular vote amongst the people. Incorrect Correct
What is the 17th Amendment? Back to Question Main Board
A form of petition used by voters to force elected officials out of office. Incorrect Correct
What is a recall? Back to Question Main Board
A system that allows voters to petition the legislature to consider a proposed law. Incorrect Correct
What is an initiative? Back to Question Main Board
States that Congress can levy a progressive income tax without assigning it amongst the states or basing it on Census Results. Incorrect Correct
What is the 16th Amendment? Back to Question Main Board
Voters, not the legislature, decide whether a bill or amendment should be passed. Incorrect Correct
What is a referendum? Back to Question Main Board
Nickname given to Roosevelt because he was the first President to seriously enforce the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Incorrect Correct
What is the ”Trust Buster”? Back to Question Main Board
Gave United States officials the power to check the quality and healthfulness of meats shipped in interstate commerce. Incorrect Correct
What is the Meat Inspection Act? Back to Question Main Board
Banned the manufacturing and sale of impure foods, drugs, and liquors – labels must be truthful – no false advertising. Incorrect Correct
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act? Back to Question Main Board
The name of the strike where workers wanted safer working conditions and Roosevelt mediated a deal between labor and management – led to shorter hours and higher wages. Incorrect Correct
What is the Coal Strike of 1902? Back to Question Main Board
Law that tripled the amount of land set aside for national parks, monuments, and wildlife refugees. Incorrect Correct
What is the National Reclamation Act? Back to Question Main Board
Prohibits each state and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote because of their gender. Incorrect Correct
What is the 19th Amendment? Back to Question Main Board
Established Prohibition in the United States. Incorrect Correct
What is the 18th Amendment? Back to Question Main Board
control money in circulation, and control interest rates Law that created a national banking system, divided into 12 districts that issued Federal Reserve Notes, control money in circulation, and control interest rates Incorrect Correct
What is the Federal Reserve Act? Back to Question Main Board
Strengthened the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by not allowing companies to buy stock in other companies and create a monopoly and legalized peaceful strikes by labor unions. Incorrect Correct
What is the Clayton Anti-Trust Act? Back to Question Main Board
Law that set an eight hour workday for employees on railroads and interstate commerce. Incorrect Correct
What is the Adamson Act? Back to Question Main Board
A time period in the United States characterized by a greatly expanding economy and the emergence of corruption in government and society. Incorrect Correct
What is the Gilded Age? Back to Question Main Board
A novel by Upton Sinclair, published in 1906, which portrays the dangerous and unhealthy conditions prevalent in the meat packing industry at the time. Incorrect Correct
What is The Jungle? Back to Question Main Board
A name given to the Progressive Party, formed to support Theodore Roosevelt’s candidacy for the presidency in 1912. Incorrect Correct
What is the Bull Moose Party? Back to Question Main Board
The planned management of natural resources, involving some of the wilderness areas and the development of others for the common good. Incorrect Correct
What is conservation? Back to Question Main Board
The President many Progressive Party members felt wasn’t supporting their agenda and caused a rift in the Republican Party for the election of 1912. Incorrect Correct
Who is William Howard Taft? Back to Question Main Board
Progressive Era
Final Jeopardy! The famous settlement house established by Jane Addams in Chicago that offered services to the urban poor.
Final Jeopardy! What is Hull House?