DOUBLE JEOPARDY! THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

Wilson TR and Taft Progressive People and Places Legislation Progressive Potpourri DOUBLE JEOPARDY! FINAL JEOPARDY

Wilson What was created in 1913 to make currency and credit more elastic?

Wilson answer What was the Federal Reserve?

Wilson What law strengthened the Sherman Act of 1890 by specifying what practices big businesses could not engage in?

Wilson answer What is the Clayton Anti-Trust Act?

Wilson What was established in 1913 with the power to investigate suspected violations of federal regulations in commerce law?

Wilson answer What was the Federal Trade Commission?

Wilson Wilson’s plan to promote free and fair competition in the economy of the United States?

Wilson answer What is New Freedom?

Wilson What law was passed in 1913 changing generations of US tariff policy and gradually replacing lost government revenue with a graduated income tax rate of 1-6%?

Wilson answer What is the Underwood- Simmons Tariff Act? (acc. Underwood Tariff)

TR and Taft As a result of their efforts to limit the power of monopolies using federal power, both presidents Roosevelt and Taft were given this generalized nickname.

TR and Taft answer What were trustbusters?

TR and Taft In 1908, TR appointed friend and conservation expert Gifford Pinchot to lead this newly created agency of the federal government.

TR and Taft answer What is the National Forest Service?

TR and Taft This case from resulted in the Supreme Court breaking up a large Railroad monopoly.

TR and Taft answer What is the Northern Securities Case?

TR and Taft In his support for both management and labor, TR promised this to the American people.

TR and Taft answer What is the Square Deal?

TR and Taft This law, signed by President Taft, gave the ICC power to suspend RR rates and oversee telephone, telegraph and cable (not TV) companies.

TR and Taft answer What is the Mann- Elkins Act?

Progressive People and Places The Progressive reforms in this state led to many other states and the federal government to adopt some of their measures.

Progressive People and Places answer What is Wisconsin?

Progressive People and Places Leader of the Socialist Party of America during early 20th century, in 1912 he was a candidate for president while in jail.

Progressive People and Places answer Who is Eugene V. Debs?

Progressive People and Places While in Atlanta, this man called for support from southern whites for African Americans to pursue technical skills education and self-help.

Progressive People and Places answer Who is Booker T. Washington?

Progressive People and Places This “fightin” politician used his “idea” to lead his state to adopt many landmark reforms regarding workmen’s compensation, a direct primary, and taxes.

Progressive People and Places answer Who is Robert LaFollette?

Progressive People and Places Her advocacy for newly arrived immigrants and practical measures to support their adjustment to America was most famously demonstrated by her founding and operation of a renovated mansion called Hull House in Chicago.

Progressive People and Places answer Who is Jane Addams?

Legislation This law in 1906 forbade the manufacture, sale, and transportation of contaminated or mislabeled food and drugs.

Legislation answer What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?

Legislation This legalized a “tax on income”. 2. This changed Senatorial elections to be decided directly by the voters.

Legislation answer What are the 16th and 17th Amendments?

Legislation What long-standing American “movement” led to the eventual ratification of the 18th amendment?

Legislation answer What is the Temperance Movement (acc. Prohibition)?

Legislation These two Progressive era laws passed during Roosevelt’s presidency strengthened the ICC’s regulation of the Railroads rebate and rate rationale.

Legislation answer What are the Elkins and Hepburn Acts?

Legislation In 1909, President Taft signed and supported this bill raising tariffs on imports. By doing so, he angered progressives and former president Theodore Roosevelt.

Legislation answer What is the Payne- Aldrich Tariff?

Progressive Potpourri These three distinctive progressive era reforms gave citizens in many states more direct political influence in their state and local governments.

Progressive Potpourri answer What are initiative, referendum, and recall?

Progressive Potpourri This sensational book by Upton Sinclair was an expose of the meatpacking industry and almost single-handedly caused the government to take legislative action in the early 1900s.

Progressive Potpourri answer What is “The Jungle”?

Progressive Potpourri Their symbol became the Bull Moose in 1912…

Progressive Potpourri answer What is the Progressive Party?

Progressive Potpourri W.E.B. DuBois was a key leader of the Niagara Movement which led to the founding of what influential organization advocating for African American rights?

Progressive Potpourri answer What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People? (acc. N.A.A.C.P.)

Progressive Potpourri As president of this organization, Carrie Chapman Catt led the drive for a federal Constitutional Amendment granting women’s suffrage.

Progressive Potpourri answer What is National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA)?

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY PROGRESSIVE ERA TERMS

FINAL JEOPARDY! QUESTION Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair… all used their “pens” to expose corruption in business and government. What were they better known as?

FINAL JEOPARDY! ANSWER What are the ‘muckrakers’?