Progressive Era Vocabulary Quiz 1

What was the Populist Party's platform:

• Coinage of silver, 16th amendment, regulation of railroad, & 17th amendment

• Coinage of Gold, 16th amendment, regulation of railroad, & 17th amendment

• Coinage of silver, 18th amendment, regulation of railroad, & 19th amendment

• Coinage of Gold, 18th amendment, deregulation of railroads, & 19th amendment

• Coinage of silver, 16th amendment, deregulation of railroad, & 17th amendment

Wrote “The Jungle”, resulting in the government regulating the safety of food products, FDA.

• Jane Addams

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Upton Sinclair

• Booker T. Washington

Established Settlement House movement to help assimilate immigrants.

• Jane Addams

• Susan B. Anthony

• Upton Sinclair

• Ida B. Wells

Harvard-educated, studied Black urban culture, and was the first president of Tuskegee University, his “Atlanta Compromise” stressed Black self-improvement and accommodation with Whites.

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Booker T. Washington

• Malcolm X

Helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a civil rights group that fought for the legal rights of African Americans.

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Booker T. Washington

• Malcolm X

Initiate, Referendum, Recall; increased participation in democracy, made elected officials accountable.

• State of Mind

• State of the Union

• State Conventions

• State Reforms

Pure Food and Drug Act

• Created in 1913, the central banking system in the U.S. & gave legal authority to issue money, regulates the economy by adjusting the money supply and interest rates

• passed in 1914, to create the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and to give the U.S. government a full complement of legal tools to use against anticompetitive, unfair, and deceptive practices in the marketplace.

• Government policies protecting consumers, resulted from Muckrakers like Upton Sinclair.

• passed in 1914, stopped corporations from unfair practices and limited the ability of companies to form monopolies; gave labor unions the right to exist.

National Park Service (Organic Act)

• Roosevelt, conserve land

• Government policies protecting consumers, resulted from Muckrakers like Upton Sinclair.

• in 1890 made it illegal for companies to restrict trade

• federal agency established by president Taft to investigate and publicize child labor problems.