Progressives Vocab

Prohibition of alcohol – banning sale, manufacture & consumption of alcohol

• 18th
• 17th
• 16th
• 15th

Direct election of senators – Progressive Era

• 16th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

Women’s Suffrage – women can influence government; Susan B. Anthony

• 19th
• 18th
• 22nd
• 26th

Government’s right to tax income (income taxes)

• 16th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

During the early 1900s, the term "muckrakers" was used to describe-

• pacifists who demonstrated against war

• Politicians who criticized Progressive Era presidents

• Writers who exposed the evil in American society

• Newspaper columnists who reported in celebrities

What did Congress do to help with the problem of the domino effect caused when one bank fails and customers of other banks rush to withdraw their money from non-failing banks.

• Congress instated the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.
• Congress instated the Federal Reserve Act.
• Congress instated the Non-Withdrawal Act to stop people from taking out money unnecessarily.
• Congress blocked the old Customer's Rights Act.

What did Trusts do?

• Allowed for shareholders to buy stocks.

• Controlled an entire industry and limited competition.

• Allowed for fair competition in an industry.

Teddy Roosevelt was known as a "trust-buster." What does that mean?

• He worked to break up small businesses

• He worked with big monopolies to make them stronger

• He worked to break up large monopolies

• He let the companies operate without any government interference

What was the name given to Roosevelt's plan to keep the wealthy from taking advantage of the poor?

• Circle Deal
• Square Deal
• New Deal
• Roosevelt Deal

1906- Wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry. (Helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act) 

• Upton Sinclair 
• Lincoln Steffens 
• Jacob Riis 
• Frank Norris