Final Jeopardy
Vocabulary
People
Economic
Political
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To re-build or to re-make
What is reform?
This connected the east
and west and helped
settle the frontier
What is the transcontinental
railroad
Crusading journalists
who exposed to
problems of the cities
What are
muckrakers?
People who campaigned for
the woman's right to vote
What are suffragists?
Protection of natural
resources
What is conservation?
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 Cornelius
Vanderbilt
Wrote the book the Jungle to expose
the horrors of the meat packing
industry
Who is Upton Sinclair?
DAILY
DOUBLE
Invented the assemble line
which made products faster
and less expensive
Who is Henry Ford?
Progressive politician, governor of
Wisconsin, who introduced the
“Wisconsin Idea”
Who is “Battling Bob” La
Follette?
Large corporations that shut
down their smaller competitors
What are monopolies and
trusts?
This is what makes a corporation
different form a business
What is Stock?
Established during the progressive
era to control interstate trade
What is the Interstate
Commerce Commission
This was established under president
Wilson to regulate banking in 1913
What is the Federal
Reserve Act?
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…
Corruption
The system in which government
jobs were given as personal favors
from 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 passes 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 middle class
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
What is assimilation?
Immigration, the industrial
revolution, and new factory jobs
caused this
What is the rise of cities?
FINAL
JEOPARDY
Reform
?
13th amendment, 14th amendment, 15th
amendment, Civil service commission, the
Wisconsin idea, 16th amendment, 17th
amendment, the square deal, and the 19th
amendment
What are ways the government has
been improved to make our
country more democratic?