Progressive Era

Suffrage is -

• the right to vote

• the right to suffer

• the right to live

• the right to speak

What do you call a change to the Constitution?

• amendment

• introduction

• preamble

• articles

These were journalists who wrote book and articles that exposed corruption in business and government:

• Progressives

• Muckrakers

• Sensationalists

• Investigative reporters

A major purpose of the Progressive movement (1900-1917) was to....

• stimulate the economy

• support government control of factory production

• encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe

• correct the economic and social abuses of industrial society

17th Amendment

• Women's Suffrage

• Direct Election of Senators

• Federal Income Tax

• Prohibition

Famer's Political Party

• A.I.M.

• Populists

• Chicanos

• Famer's Unite

Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois agreed that African Americans should

• use education to gain opportunities
• support a “Back to Africa” movement
• take part in boycotts to end segregation
• adopt a gradual approach to gain the right to vote

What legislation is this cartoon referring to?

• 30 day waiting period for immigration

• Deportation after completion of Transcontinental Railroad

• Immigration Reduction Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

prohibited unfair practices by railroads such as charging higher rates for shorter routes

• Interstate Commerce Act
• Child Labor Laws
• Philanthropy
• Sherman Antitrust Act

From this image, who is in control of the US lawmakers.

• Large monopolies

• small private business

• political machines

• labor unions