Progressivism JEOPARDY! PPT
DOUBLE
JEOPARDY!
THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Wilson TR and Taft
Progressive
People and
Places
Legislation
Progressive
Potpourri
Wilson - 200
What was created in 1913 to make currency and credit more elastic?
Wilson - 200 answer
Wilson - 400
What law strengthened the
Sherman Act of 1890 by specifying what practices big businesses could not engage in?
Wilson - 400 answer
Wilson - 600
What was established in 1913 with the power to investigate suspected violations of federal regulations in commerce law?
Wilson - 600 answer
Wilson - 800
Wilson’s plan to promote free and fair competition in the economy of the
United States?
Wilson - 800 answer
Wilson - 1000
What law was passed in 1913 changing generations of US tariff policy and gradually replacing lost government revenue with a graduated income tax rate of 1-6%?
Wilson - 1000 answer
TR and Taft - 200
As a result of their efforts to limit the power of monopolies using federal power, both presidents
Roosevelt and Taft were given this generalized nickname.
TR and Taft - 200 answer
TR and Taft - 400
In 1908, TR appointed friend and conservation expert Gifford Pinchot to lead this newly created agency of the federal government.
TR and Taft - 400 answer
TR and Taft - 600
This case from 1902-1904 resulted in the Supreme Court breaking up a large Railroad monopoly.
TR and Taft - 600 answer
TR and Taft - 800
In his support for both management and labor, TR promised this to the American people.
TR and Taft - 800 answer
TR and Taft - 1000
This law, signed by President
Taft, gave the ICC power to suspend RR rates and oversee telephone, telegraph and cable
(not TV) companies.
TR and Taft - 1000 answer
Progressive People and Places -
200
The Progressive reforms in this state led to many other states and the federal government to adopt some of their measures.
Progressive People and Places -
200 answer
Progressive People and Places -
400
Leader of the Socialist
Party of America during early 20th century, in
1912 he was a candidate for president while in jail.
Progressive People and Places -
400 answer
Who is Eugene V.
Debs?
Progressive People and Places -
600
While in Atlanta, this man called for support from southern whites for African
Americans to pursue technical skills education and self-help.
Progressive People and Places -
600 answer
Progressive People and Places -
800
This “fightin” politician used his
“idea” to lead his state to adopt many landmark reforms regarding workmen’s compensation, a direct primary, and taxes.
Progressive People and Places -
800 answer
Progressive People and Places -
1000
Her advocacy for newly arrived immigrants and practical measures to support their adjustment to
America was most famously demonstrated by her founding and operation of a renovated mansion called Hull House in Chicago.
Progressive People and Places -
1000 answer
Legislation - 200
This law in 1906 forbade the manufacture, sale, and transportation of contaminated or mislabeled food and drugs.
Legislation - 200 answer
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Legislation - 400
1. This legalized a “tax on income”.
2. This changed Senatorial elections to be decided directly by the voters.
Legislation - 400 answer
Legislation - 600
What long-standing
American “movement” led to the eventual ratification of the 18th amendment?
Legislation - 600 answer
Legislation - 800
These two Progressive era laws passed during
Roosevelt’s presidency strengthened the ICC’s regulation of the Railroads rebate and rate rationale.
Legislation - 800 answer
Legislation - 1000
In 1909, President Taft signed and supported this bill raising tariffs on imports. By doing so, he angered progressives and former president Theodore
Roosevelt.
Legislation - 1000 answer
Progressive Potpourri - 200
These three distinctive progressive era reforms gave citizens in many states more direct political influence in their state and local governments.
Progressive Potpourri - 200 answer
What are initiative, referendum, and recall?
Progressive Potpourri - 400
This sensational book by Upton
Sinclair was an expose of the meatpacking industry and almost single-handedly caused the government to take legislative action in the early
1900s.
Progressive Potpourri - 400 answer
Progressive Potpourri - 600
Their symbol became the Bull Moose in
1912…
Progressive Potpourri - 600 answer
What is the
Progressive Party?
Progressive Potpourri - 800
W.E.B. DuBois was a key leader of the Niagara
Movement which led to the founding of what influential organization advocating for
African American rights?
Progressive Potpourri - 800 answer
Progressive Potpourri - 1000
As president of this organization, Carrie
Chapman Catt led the drive for a federal Constitutional
Amendment granting women’s suffrage.
Progressive Potpourri - 1000 answer
FINAL JEOPARDY!
CATEGORY
PROGRESSIVE ERA
TERMS
FINAL JEOPARDY!
QUESTION
Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell,
Upton Sinclair… all used their
“pens” to expose corruption in business and government.
What were they better known as?
FINAL JEOPARDY! ANSWER
What are the
‘muckrakers’?
