Progressive Era Vocabulary

A rising grassroots movement representing the “common man” – farmers, industrial workers, and miners that proposed a 8 hour workday, a progressive income tax, a government-regulated economy, and free silver was known as...

• Republicanism

• Populism

• Democracy

• Socialism

This amendment allowed the federal government to collect a graduated income tax

• 10th

• 14th

• 16th

• 19th

Ida B. Wells was an investigative journalist who exposed the horrors of lynching in the South, fought for women's suffrage, and helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

• True

• False

This social reformer wrote a series of magazine articles exposing the monopolistic business practices of the Standard Oil Company

• Jane Addams

• Ida Tarbell

• Jacob Riis

• Lincoln Steffens

Upton Sinclair wrote this novel to expose the unsanitary working conditions of the meat-packing industry

• Pack Rats

• The Red Horror

• The Lion King

• The Jungle

This amendment ended the selection of Senators by state legislatures and stated that Senators would now by elected by the voting public.

• 2nd

• 23rd

• 17th

• 14th

The 18th amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcoholic beverages.

• True

• False

President Woodrow Wilson created this government agency to control United States monetary policy and regulate the economy.

• The Finance System

• The Federal Reserve

• The Pure Food and Drug Act

• The Economic Agency

This social reformer opposed racial segregation, believed African Americans should have equal rights immediately, founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

• Ida Tarbell

• Booker T. Washington

• Denzel Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

This social reformer felt that African Americans should accept temporary segregation and prove their worth to White people through honesty and hard work until they were accepted as equals.

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Ida B. Wells

• Lewis Hine