Final Jeopardy
Vocabulary
People
Economic
Political
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Social
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The time period know as
rebuilding the south after the
civil war
What is Reconstruction?
This connection helped
settle the frontier and
expand the economy
What is the
Transcontinental
Railroad?
Crusading journalists
who exposed problems
of corruption in the
government
What are
muckrakers?
People who fought for the
right for women to vote
Who are suffragists?
The difference between a
stronger federal government
vs. stronger state governments
and a cause of the Civil War
What is states
rights?
Nicknamed the trust buster for his
opposition to big business (also
passes conservation and food
safety reforms)
Who is Teddy
Roosevelt ?
Used vertical integration to
gain an advantage over other
steel companies
Who is Andrew
Carnegie ?
Wrote the book the Jungle to expose
the horrors of the meat packing
industry
Who is Upton Sinclair?
DAILY
DOUBLE
Henry Ford’s invention that
helped make goods faster and
less expensive
What is the assemble
line ?
Worked with Jane Adams and
Lincoln Stephens to create the
NAACP and wrote about
racism in America
Who is W.E.B. Dubois
Large corporations that shut
down their smaller competitors
What are monopolies and
trusts?
Corporations used this to make
money to invest in this businesses
What is Stock?
Established during the progressive
era to control railroad trade between
the states
What is the Interstate
Commerce Commission
The many new factory jobs in
American because of industrialization
had this effect on immigration
What is a pull factor
This was called “New Slavery”
because freedmen were still tied to
the land
What is sharecropping?
Bribery and the spoils system
are examples of this…
What is Corruption?
The system in which government
jobs were given to loyal supporters
by elected officials
What is the spoils system
or Patronage system
This reform allows voters to remove
an elected official from office
What is recall?
Exam that must be passed in order to
have a federal government job
What is the Civil service
exam?
This is what the court case, Plessey v
Ferguson ,made legal
What is segregation
These were the crowded city buildings
where immigrants and factory workers
lived
What are tenements?
Art literature and music that shows
the way American culture really was
and appealed to the poor and middle
classes
What is realism?
The printing of scandals crime
stories and gossip
What is yellow
journalism?
This means becoming “American” or
becoming a part of American culture
by giving up your old culture
What is assimilation?
These prevented Asian
immigrants form coming to
America
What are the Chinese
Exclusion Act and the
Gentlemen's Agreement
FINAL
JEOPARDY
Reform
?
13th amendment, 14th amendment, 15th
amendment, Civil service commission, the
Wisconsin idea, 17th amendment, and the
19th amendment
What are ways the government has
been improved to make our
country more democratic?