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Ch 21 Progressivism
Question | Answer |
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The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. | 16th Amendment |
The effort to regulate and control big business. | Progressivism |
The United States Constitution established the election of United States Senators by the people of the states. | 17th Amendment |
A ballot in which votes are cast in secret. | Secret Ballot |
What party name does IWW stand for? | Industrial Workers of the World |
What factory was in New York City that led young factory girls leap to their death from many stories of the building during a fire? | The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory |
What association was formed on February 18, 1890 to work for women's suffrage in the United States by two major women's groups? | National American Woman Suffrage Association |
An election in which voters choose candidates to run on a party's ticket in a subsequent election for public office. | Direct Primary |
This act made the ICC a more powerful and more active body. | The Hepburn Act |
The struggle for the right of women to vote and run for office and is part of the overall women’s rights movement. | Women Suffrage |
A domestic policy was adopted by the President Roosevelt in which he pledged not to favor any group of Americans but to be fair to all. | The Square Deal |
An espousal of active federal intervention to promote social justice and the economic welfare of the underprivileged by Roosevelt. | New Nationalism |
One who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders," popularized 1906 in speech by Roosevelt. | Muckracker |
An African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 dedicated to the eradication of racial discrimination. | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
The protection of plants, animals, and natural areas is called? | Conservation |
A black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group led by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter. | Niagara Movement |
Collection of speeches Wilson made during his presidential campaign of1912. Promised significant reforms for greater economic opportunity for all, while ensuring the tradition of limited government. | New Freedom |
This act made certain specific business practices illegal. | Clayton Antitrust Act |
This brought the first significant reduction of duties since before the Civil War. | Underwood Tariff |
This act gave the country a central banking system for the first time since Jackson destroyed the Bank of the United States. | Federal Reserve Act |