LMHS US EOC Review - Unit 5 - Populism & Progressive Era

What is the Federal Reserve in charge of?

• Interest rates on loans
• Monitoring all of the countries banks to ensure they are making good decisions
• Creating the money that citizens of the US use
• Administering a test for potential bank employees

Pictures like this would have been discussed in what book?

• The Jungle
• History of the Standard Oil Company
• The Shame of the Cities
• How the Other Half Lives

What was the purpose of Muckrakers?

• Writers who wanted to make money by selling newspapers
• Writers who wanted to cause change with their writings
• Writers who supported big business and corruption in politics
• Writers who wrote patriotic short stories

August 1920; the amendment to the constitution that gave women the right to vote. 

•  19th Amendment 
• 18th Amendment 
• 21st Amendment 
• 20th Amendment 

Reporters and journalists who reported on corrupt politicians and other problems in society, for example, Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle about the gruesome details of the meatpacking industry; Thomas Nast’s cartoons ruined Boss Tweed 

• muckrakers 
• carpetbaggers 
• scalawags 
• dirtdiggers 

A political party formed in 1891 mostly by farmers & members of labor unions who demanded government help with falling farm prices, regulation of railroad rates, and free silver (more money to be put in circulation) 

• Progressive 
• Populist 
• Bull Moose
• Republican 

An election in which voters choose their party’s candidate 

• initiative 
• recall 
• primary 
• referendum 

The right that enables voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials from office 

• primary 
• referendum 
• initiative 
• recall 

A person who campaigned for women’s right to vote such as: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul 

• suffragist
• temperance crusader 
• abolitionist 
• muckraker 

August 1920; the amendment to the constitution that gave women the right to vote. 

•  19th Amendment 
• 18th Amendment 
• 21st Amendment 
• 20th Amendment