Progressive Era

This time period focused on social and political reforms in the United States in the early 1900s:

• Civil War Era

• Industrialization Era

• Progressive Era

• Reconstruction Era

This U.S. president made significant contributions to breaking up big business during the Progressive Era:

• Howard Taft

• Woodrow Wilson

• William McKinley

• Theodore Roosevelt

Amendment gave women the right to vote

Amendment that gave blacks suffrage

Amendment that created a graduated income tax

First ever Women's Rights Convention

• Women First

• Seneca Falls

• Women United

• Chicanos

Which of the following was present during the Gilded Age?

• segregation

• civil service reform

• temperance

• political corruption

Southern Resistance to 13th amendment

• Sharecropping

• Jim Crow

• Poll Tax

What of the following best describes the impact of the 16th Amendment?

• It gave the federal government more power because it made it legal for the government to directly tax its citizens

• It made the manufacturing, distribution and consumption of alcohol illegal in the U.S.

• It gave the people more power because they now had the right to choose their U.S. Senators

• It doubled the amount of people who voted in the United States because it allowed women the right to vote

Which demographic shift occurred in the United States in the late 1800s (late 19^th Century) as a result of industrialization?

• Northerners moved to the Sunbelt states

• Working class people left the cities and moved to the suburbs

• Rural residents moved into urban areas

• African Americans moved from the North to the South