FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PROGRESSIVE ERA

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PROGRESSIVE ERA

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Question 1: Pure Food & Drug Act

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Law that prevent the selling of harmful/misbranded foods

Question 2: Seneca Falls

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convention: meeting to talk about women's rights, particularly voting

Question 3: 17th Amendment

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Direct election of senators by the people

Question 4: Pendleton Act

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Law that ends the spoils system through civil service tests

Question 5: Spoils System

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the practice of giving political positions to government friends/supporters

Question 6: Trustbuster

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Roosevelt's nickname because he broke up many monopolies

Question 7: Booker T. Washington

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wanted to improve Afr. Am. equality through EDUCATION/vocation

Question 8: Political Machine

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a group that controlled government with bribes; very corrupt (dishonest)

Question 9: NYS Tenement House Act

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Law that set higher living standards for the poor

Question 10: Muckraker

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people who wanted to improve society by exposing the major issues

Question 11: 16th Amendment

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Graduated income tax - the more you make, the more you pay

Question 12: Conservation

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protecting wildlife and natural resources; major goal of Teddy Roosevelt

Question 13: Laissez-faire

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government is hands off business - no regulation (control)

Question 14: Bull Moose Party

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Roosevelt's new political party

Question 15: Progressive

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A person who wants to bring about progress in society

Question 16: Temperance

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The movement to make drinking alcohol illegal

Question 17: Boss Tweed

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political boss in charge of Tammany Hall (political machine)

Question 18: Suffrage

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the right to vote

Question 19: National Monuments Act

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Law that protects landmarks and historical structures

Question 20: Square Deal

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Theodore Roosevelt's slogan "fairness for all"

Question 21: Volstead Act

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Law that makes alcohol illegal

Question 22: Meat Inspection Act

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Law that ensures that meat is slaughtered/packaged correct

Question 23: Tammany Hall

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Boss Tweed's political machine

Question 24: NAACP

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Organization devoted to ending segregation & economic/edu equality

Question 25: Tuskegee Institute

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Organization to teach Afr. Am. farming and factory skills to gain equality

Question 26: Theodore Roosevelt

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President who broke up monopolies; "trustbuster", conservationist

Question 27: W.E.B. DuBois

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wanted to improve Afr. Am. equality through radical measures

Question 28: Prohibition

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prevention by law of the manufacture & sale of alcohol in the US