Unit XI
1. What name was given to journalists who exposed corruption in government, business
and society?
MUCKRAKERS
2. Who was the author of The Jungle?
UPTON SINCLAIR
3. What law was the result of The Jungle?
PURE FOOD AND DRUG ACT
4. What was the first law to break up monopolies?
SHERMAN ANTITRUST ACT
5. What was the goal of the temperance movement of the late 1800’s?
PROHIBITION
6. What Wisconsin governor started progressive reforms in his state?
ROBERT LAFOLLETTE
7. Name examples of political reforms made by the progressive movement.
REFERENDUM, RECALL, SECRET BALLOT, ELECTION OF SENATORS
8. What was the result of the Jim Crow laws?
SEGREGATION
9. What Supreme Court case upheld the Jim Crow laws?
PLESSY V. FERGUSON
10. What early civil rights leader believed that blacks should use the courts to fight for
equality?
W.E.B. DUBOIS
11. What early civil rights leader felt blacks needed skills and education for economic
independence?
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
12. What civil rights organization did Dubois form in 1909?
NAACP
13. What campaign did Susan B. Anthony lead?
WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE
14. Name social and economic issues that were targeted by Progressives?
CHILD LABOR, WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE, URBAN CONDITIONS,
MONOPOLIES
15. Who would have rejoiced at the passing of the 19th amendment?
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT AND SUSAN B. ANTHONY
16. What was the subject of muckraker Ida B. Wells?
LYNCHING OF BLACKS
17. How did southern states prevent the 15th amendment from being followed?
GRANDFATHER CLAUSE, POLL TAX, LITERACY TEST
18.What institution was started by Booker T. Washington to teach vocational skills to
blacks?
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE
19. What law was passed to strengthen the Sherman Antitrust Act?
CLAYTON ANTITRUST ACT
20. What case allowed states to regulate working hours for women?
MULLER V. OREGON
21. What political reform allowed voters to nominate candidates for office?
DIRECT PRIMARY
22. What political reform resulted from ratification of the 17th amendment?
ELECTION OF SENATORS BY THE VOTERS
23. What right did Wyoming first grant in 1869?
WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE
24. What did the Republican Party do to get Theodore Roosevelt out of power?
NOMINATED HIM FOR VICE-PRESIDENT
25. What name was given to Roosevelt’s plan for reform?
SQUARE DEAL
26. What labor dispute was ended when Roosevelt threatened to take federal control of a
business?
COAL STRIKE
27. What type of transportation came under stricter regulation under Roosevelt?
RAILROAD
28. What was the inspiration behind the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and
Drug Act?
THE JUNGLE
29. Why would present-day environmentalists applaud the work of Teddy Roosevelt?
HE STARTED THE CONSERVATION MOVEMENT
30. Why were Republicans upset with Roosevelt?
HE WAS A PROGRESSIVE
31. Who did Roosevelt select to continue his progressive reforms as President?
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
32. Why did Roosevelt decide to run for President in 1912 after not running for reelection in 1908?
TAFT HAD BEEN TOO CONSERVATIVE
33. What action of Roosevelt was reversed by Richard Ballinger?
PROTECTED FORESTS WERE MADE AVAILABLE TO PRIVATE
COMPANIES
34. What nickname was given to Roosevelt’s Progressive Party in 1912?
BULL MOOSE
35. Why did the progressive Democrat Woodrow Wilson win the election in 1912?
REPUBLICAN PARTY WAS SPLIT
36. What name was given to Roosevelt because of the monopolies that he split?
TRUST BUSTER
37. The Underwood Tariff passed while Wilson was President made what change?
LOWER TARIFF RATES
38. What national banking system did Wilson create?
FEDERAL RESERVE
39. How did the federal government make up for lost revenue from the Underwood
Tariff?
16TH AMENDMENT CREATED A GRADUATED INCOME TAX
40. What was the concern of the Federal Trade Commission and the Clayton Antitrust
Act?
UNFAIR BUSINESS PRACTICES
41. What political reform was finally accomplished with the ratification of the 19th
amendment?
WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE
42. What social reform was ignored by the progressives of the early 20th century?
CIVIL RIGHTS
43. What was the name of Woodrow Wilson progressive programs?
NEW FREEDOM
44.Who was the leading advocate for improving the lives of women and Children by
moving into settlement house?
FLORENCE KELLY
45. What allowed voters to remove public officials from elected positions by forcing
them to face an election before the end of their term if enough voters requested it?
RECALL
46. What is the name for a bill initiated, or launched, by citizens?
INITIATIVE
47. What did the 17th Amendment do?
IT ALLOWED FOR THE DIRECT ELECTION OF US SENAOTRS BY THE
PEOPLE
48. Henry Ford treated his employees very well and example of this is?
HE WAS THE FIRST OWNER TO PAY HIS EMPLOYEES $ 5.00 A DAY.
49. What law required that the labels on food were truthful?
PURE FOOD AND DRUG ACT
50. What organization was given the power to stop unfair business practices?
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
51. Who persuaded President Roosevelt to set aside millions of acres of forest reserves?
GIFFORD PINCHOT
52. Who was the first leader of Big Business to see his workers as consumers?
HENRY FORD
53. Who wrote the book called how the other Half-lives that describes the life’s of
immigrants?
JACOB RIIS
54. Henry Ford is remember for put the assembly line to use in the production of what?
MODEL-T FORD
55. What amendment outlaws the sale and distribution of Alcohol in the United States?
18TH AMENDMENT
56. What did Lincoln Steffen’s; in his series of articles title “The Shame of the Cities”
write about?
UNMASKED THE CORRUPT ALLIANCE BETWEEN BIG BUSINESS &
GOVERNMENT
57. What law placed telephone and telegraph companies under I.C.C. supervision?
MANN-ELKINS ACT
58. Who was the most famous member of the Anti-Saloon League who would attack
people at bars and cut up bar tables with a hatchet?
CARRIE NATION
59. A 1911 fire in this company, where over 140 women workers died, led to new laws
regulating work hours, working conditions, and fire codes.
TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST CO.
60. The first flight took place at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina by which 2 people?
WRIGHT BROTHERS
61. Jane Addams opened a settlement house (Hull House) for what 2 reasons?
TO CREATE MEANINGFUL WORK OPPORTUNITIES EDUCATED WOMEN
AND TO HELP HER NEIGHBORS.
62. Who was the muckraker who wrote the book History of Standard Oil Company,
which chronicled the abuses of the company and led to a court case that caused the
breakup of the monopoly?
IDA TARBELL
63. What was the conservative tariff law that discredited President Taft and split the
Republican party in 1912?
PAYNE-ALDRICH ACT
64. What is the event, which involved African American people, occurred after
Reconstruction ended, and continued into the early 1920s?
GREAT MIGRATION
65. The fight for control of the Burlington Railroad erupted on the Northern Stock
Exchange and led to what case in 1904?
U.S V NORTHERN SECURITIES
66. Who invented the sewing machine?
ISAAC MERRITT SINGER
67. What contribution did Elias Howe make to the textile industry?
SEWING MACHINE
68. What soft drink was created in Atlanta at the turn of the 20th century?
COCA-COLA
69. Who invented the movie camera?
THOMAS EDISON
70. How did people on the farm in the 1900s buy major items?
MAIL ORDER CATALOGS
71. What area in the United States, at the turn of the century, relied on most exclusively
on electricity for their nighttime lighting needs?
BIG CITIES
72. What made it possible to build skyscrapers in the 1890’s?
BETTER METHODS OF PRODUCING STRONGER STEEL
73. Who invented the first Kodak camera?
GEORGE EASTMAN
74. Who used the advertising slogan “Use press the button, we do the rest.”?
GEORGE EASTMAN FOR HIS KODAK CAMERA
75. When did the St. Petersburg/Tampa Airboat Line start passenger service?
JANUARY 1ST, 1914
76. What law in 1919 prohibited the manufacture, transportation and sale of beverages
containing more than 0.5 per cent alcohol?
VOLSTEAD ACT
77. What is the act of withdrawing certification or not participating in an election called?
DISENFRANCHISEMENT
78.What speech did Booker T Washington stressed that blacks must accommodate white
people—and especially southern whites’—refusal to tolerate blacks as anything more
than sophisticated menials.
ATLANTA COMPROMISE SPEECH
79. Who was the author of the book "A Red Record," which recorded race lynching in
America?
IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT
80. What court case dealt with an attempt to monopolize the business of tobacco in
interstate commerce? AMERICAN TOBACCO V. US 1911
81. What court case prevented Congress from directly limiting commerce until the
1930’s? US V. KNIGHT & CO. 1895