WorksheetsProgressive Era Vocabulary
Total questions: 49
Worksheet time: 25mins
Newspaper reporter, reformer, and photographer; his book How the Other Half Lives shocked Americans with its descriptions of slum conditions and led to tenement housing legislation in New York
Jacob Riis
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Susan B. Anthony
Reform minded journalists who exposed the underhanded tactics of wealthy industrialists
Muckrakers
Progressives
Suffragists
Prohibitionists
Investigative journalist; she wrote a report condemning the business practices of John D. Rockefeller in McClure’s magazine. These articles became the basis for her book, The History of Standard Oil
Jacob Riis
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
Susan B. Anthony
Law that allowed Congress to levy taxes based on an individual's income
16th amendment
17th amendment
18th amendment
19th amendment
a constitutional amendment allowing American voters to directly elect US senators
16th amendment
17th amendment
18th amendment
19th amendment
a constitutional amendment that outlined the production and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States; repealed in 1933
16th amendment
17th amendment
18th amendment
19th amendment
a constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote
16th amendment
17th amendment
18th amendment
19th amendment
a band on alcohol that became law in 1920; the ban was lifted in 1933
Prohibtion
Progressivism
New Freedom
Square Deal
Twenty-sixth President of the United States; he focused his efforts on trust busting, environmental conservation, and strong foreign policy.
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Grover Cleveland
Theodore Roosevelt’s 1904 campaign slogan; expressed his belief that the needs of workers, business, and consumers should be balanced, and called for limiting the power of trusts, promoting public health and safety, and improving working conditions
Square Deal
Progressivism
New Freedom
Prohibition
Novelist whose 1906 book, The Jungle, depicted the unsanitary conditions at meatpacking plants , The book brought about a public outcry, which led to consumer protection laws.
Jacob Riis
Upton Sinclair
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Law that required federal government inspection of meat shipped across state lines
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Prohibition
Square Deal
a law that forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of food and patent medicine containing harmful ingredients, and requires that containers of food and medicines carry ingredient labels
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Prohibition
Square Deal
Twenty-seventh President of the United States; he angered progressives by moving cautiously toward reforms and by supporting Payne-Aldrich Tariff. He lost Roosevelt’s support and was defeated for a second term.
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Grover Cleveland
Twenty-eighth president of the United States; he proposed the League of Nations after World War I. His reform legislation included direct election of senators, prohibition, and women’s suffrage. He also created the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Trade Commission, and he enacted child labor laws.
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Grover Cleveland
a law that created a central fund from which banks could borrow to prevent collapse during a financial panic; it also placed the banking system under the supervision of the government for the first time
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Federal Reserve Act
a law that prohibited companies from buying the stock of competing companies in order to form a monopoly, forbade companies from selling goods below cost with the goal of driving their competitors out of business and made strikes, boycotts, and peaceful picketing legal
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Federal Reserve Act
Reform
To Change
To Annul
To Repeal
To Speculate
The Jungle
Written by Upton Sinclair that portrayed the harsh conditions & working conditions of the meat industry
Written by Alfred Thayer Mahan and explained the necessity of a large navy
Written by Andrew Carnegie explaining how the wealthy needed to contribute to the less fortunate through philanthropy
Written by Booker T. Washington that covered law and education of African-Americans in the US.
Unions
Organization of workers that strive for better treatment
President power to reject a congressional law
Judicial Review of the Supreme Court
Court Cases that change US history
Sherman Antitrust Act
Break apart monopolies that prevented competition
System of tariffs to prevent inflation
Reason behind the Stock Market crash of 1929
Legislature signed for gender equality
Progressive Party
Started by Teddy Roosevelt; stole votes from Republicans
Started by Woodrow Wilson; stole votes from Populist
Started by William Taft; stole Democrats
Started by Booker T. Washington; Stole votes from Progressives
National Park System
Formed to conserve and protect wildlife and historic property in the US
Prevented the sale & distribution of alcohol
Created a syndicalism against the government
Rations created for the soldiers
NAACP
Organization that legally fought against discrimination, racism, & segregation of African-Americans
Organization that used force & violence to protect African-Americans
Political Party that advocated for Progressive ideas
First suffrage era women to vote
WEB DuBois
Fought for African-American rights through legal actions & paid for attorney fees
Author that was against imperialism
Senator that accused citizens of being Communist spies
Helped with Wilson's plan for a Post-WWI world
An 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized the racial segregation of public facilities.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Suffrage
18th Amendment
Recall
Legal protections and privileges granted to people regardless of race, gender, age, or disability.
Suffrage
1st Amendment
Recall
Civil Rights
Procedure where voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before his or her term and ended.
Recall
Referendum
Initiative
Suffrage
A direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to vote on a particular proposal.
Recall
Referendum
Initiative
Suffrage
An effort that combined Christian values with social reform.
Progressive Movement
Populist Party
Social Gospel Movement
Suffrage Movement
powerful organizations that influenced city and county politics
political machines
town politicals
tycoon politics
political enforcers
method that allows voters to propose a new law by signing petitions
vigilant justice
opposition
initiative
proposal
Author of Shame of the Cities- this book exposed corruption in urban government
Lincoln Steffens
Jane Adams
Florence Kelley
Jacob Riis
Community center that provided services for the urban poor
Settlement House
Initiative
Referendum
National Consumers League
Leader in the settlement house movement
Jane Adams
Florence Kelley
Lincoln Steffens
Robert Reid
A run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city is called a
tenement
settlement house
muchraker
strike
Protecting the interests native-born people over immigrants is called
temperance.
suffrage.
nativism.
striking.
Which of the following was NOT a problem of the progressive era?
Corrupt City Bosses
City Populations and Conditions
Work Hours and Conditions
Imperialist Expansion
What did growing city populations lead to?
Immigrants moving to cities for jobs
City Slums and Unhealthy Living Conditions
Urbanization and white flight
Social reformers exposing corrupt city leaders
What is a Slum?
large area filled with tiny huts
a room or apartment usually filled with 4-5 families
Overcrowded street or district inhabited by poor people
A poor person who begs for money
What is a Political Machine?
A ballot box
A political group with an authoritative boss who keeps power through corruption
A political group who seek to expose the corruption in politics
A polling machine which counts votes
Why was child labor common?
Bring your child to work day was SO popular
Families needed the extra income
parents didn't want to leave children home alone
Bosses wanted to pay them less
What happened at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory?
There was a fire and people were trapped inside without fire exits
The roof collapsed
The workers were fired for demanding the right to vote
Immigrant workers were savagely attacked for "stealing white jobs"
What were jim crow laws?
laws meant to enforce racial segregation and keep people of color in a lower social position
Laws proposed and passed by congressman Jim Crow of Alabama
Rules made up that people didn't follow anyways
A set of social expectations that white people had to follow or risk being attacked by political correctness
