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What was it called when people were given jobs based upon support rather than qualifications?

Spoils system

What are civil service jobs?

Government jobs which are not elected or part of the military.

How was the spoils system reformed?

The Civil Service Commission was formed. It was responsible for filling government jobs. People had to take the civil service exam to be eligible for jobs.

How were trusts and monopolies reformed?

The Sherman Antitrust Act forbade trusts although it was used against unions at first.

My political cartoons were aimed at reforming city governments. Who was I?

Thomas Nast

What were newspaper reporters who exposed corruption called?

muckrakers

I was a leading boss. Thomas Nast targeted me with his cartoons.

William “Boss” Tweed

I was a muckraker who targeted big businesses.

Ida Tarbell

My book How the Other Half Lives featuring photographs of city living conditions helped improve living conditions in tenements.

Jacob Riis

The Declaration of Sentiments was written at this women’s rights meeting in 1848.

Seneca Falls Convention

These two women led the National Women’s Suffrage Association – a group that wanted to amend the Constitution so women can vote.

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

What does suffrage mean?

The right to vote

What amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920?

19 th Amendment

Who was known as the trustbusting president?

Teddy Roosevelt

What did Teddy Roosevelt think about trusts?

Some trusts were good and should be left alone while others were bad and should be broken up.

What was Teddy Roosevelt’s plan where all people should have an equal opportunity to succeed called?

Square deal

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union was against was problem of society?

The abuse of alcohol.

I was a leader of the W.C.T.U.

Frances Willard

I was a member of the temperance movement who went and destroyed saloons using a hatchet.

Carry Nation

What was the result of the temperance movement?

18 th Amendment (1919) which prohibited the sale of alcohol. The 21 st Amendment got rid of this amendment.

I was a muckraker who exposed the meatpacking industry with my novel The Jungle. The Pure Food and Drug Act was passed as a result of my work.

Upton Sinclair

I was known as the conservationist president.

Teddy Roosevelt

Gifford Pinchot and John Muir were associated with this movement to save the environment.

conservation

I founded Tuskegee Institute. I accepted segregation and believed that by becoming educated African Americans could improve their lives.

Booker T. Washington

This organization worked for African American rights.

NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

Who was the leading African scientist who specialty was finding uses for peanuts and peanut products?

George Washington Carver

What leader urged African Americans to fight discrimination?

W.E.B. DuBois