1. Gilded Age, Populist Movement, and the Progressive Era

4. Political Machines

5. Muckrakers

6. Progressive Reforms

7. Roosevelt’s Square Deal

8. Wilson’s New Freedom

9. Populist Movement

10. Roosevelt’s Square Deal
Political Machines
Progressive Reforms
Wilson’s New Freedom
Populist Movement
Muckrakers
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Final Jeopardy

11. A New York City political leader, who became a symbol for dishonest behavior in city politics.
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12. Who is Boss Tweed?
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13. The political machine in New York City that dominated the Democratic Party.
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14. What was Tammany Hall?
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15. 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.
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16. What is the Pendleton Act?
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17. The practice of giving political jobs to people of the same political party who helped get them elected.
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18. What is patronage?
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19. The illegal use of political influence for personal gain.
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20. What is a graft?
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21. Exposed the dangerous and unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry
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22. Who is Upton Sinclair?
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23. Political cartoonist who exposed the corruption of NYC’s Tammany Hall Ring.
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24. Who is Thomas Nast?
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25. Exposed the conditions of the poor and immigrants in urban tenements.
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26. Who is Jacob Riis?
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27. Exposed the widespread political corruption in urban governments.
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28. Who is Lincoln Steffens?
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29. Exposed the ruthless business practices of Standard Oil and John D
Exposed the ruthless business practices of Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller.
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30. Who is Ida Tarbell?
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31. Changes the election of Senators from the state legislators to popular vote amongst the people.
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32. What is the 17th Amendment?
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33. A form of petition used by voters to force elected officials out of office.
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34. What is a recall?
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35. A system that allows voters to petition the legislature to consider a proposed law.
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36. What is an initiative?
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37. States that Congress can levy a progressive income tax without assigning it amongst the states or basing it on Census Results.
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38. What is the 16th Amendment?
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39. Voters, not the legislature, decide whether a bill or amendment should be passed.
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40. What is a referendum?
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41. Nickname given to Roosevelt because he was the first President to seriously enforce the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
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42. What is the ”Trust Buster”?
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43. Gave United States officials the power to check the quality and healthfulness of meats shipped in interstate commerce.
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44. What is the Meat Inspection Act?
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45. Banned the manufacturing and sale of impure foods, drugs, and liquors – labels must be truthful – no false advertising.
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46. What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
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47. 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.
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48. What is the Coal Strike of 1902?
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49. Law that tripled the amount of land set aside for national parks, monuments, and wildlife refugees.
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50. What is the National Reclamation Act?
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51. Prohibits each state and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote because of their gender.
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52. What is the 19th Amendment?
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53. Established Prohibition in the United States.
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54. What is the 18th Amendment?
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55. 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
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56. What is the Federal Reserve Act?
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57. 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.
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58. What is the Clayton Anti-Trust Act?
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59. Law that set an eight hour workday for employees on railroads and interstate commerce.
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60. What is the Adamson Act?
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61. A time period in the United States characterized by a greatly expanding economy and the emergence of corruption in government and society.
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62. What is the Gilded Age?
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63. A novel by Upton Sinclair, published in 1906, which portrays the dangerous and unhealthy conditions prevalent in the meat packing industry at the time.
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64. What is The Jungle?
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65. A name given to the Progressive Party, formed to support Theodore Roosevelt’s candidacy for the presidency in 1912.
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66. What is the Bull Moose Party?
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67. The planned management of natural resources, involving some of the wilderness areas and the development of others for the common good.
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68. What is conservation?
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69. 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.
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70. Who is William Howard Taft?
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71. Progressive Era

72. Final Jeopardy!
The famous settlement house established by Jane Addams in Chicago that offered services to the urban poor.

73. Final Jeopardy!
What is Hull House?