Transcript Pondering the Progressive Era

Gilded vs.
Progressive
Major
Players
Major
Reforms
Supreme
Court
Politics
of the Era
U.S. Becomes
a World
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Nickname of the investigative
journalists who exposed the problems
of the Gilded Age
Who are the Muckrakers?
The 1890 law that was the first to
limit monopolies restricting free trade
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
The nickname of the businessmen
who dominated the
Gilded Age more than the politicians
Who are
the “Captains of Industry”
OR
“Robber Barons?”
The author from whom the term
“Gilded Age” was borrowed?
Who is Mark Twain?
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
The Progressive President who
tackled the unsanitary conditions
in meat packing plants, railroad
monopolies, and unsafe drug
products
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The man who ran unsuccessfully
for the presidency three times as
a Democrat and was known for
the attack on the gold standard in
the “Cross of Gold” speech
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
The reformer who highlighted the
poor and unsanitary living conditions
of the urban tenements with his
photography
Who is Jacob Riis?
The reformer who was known for the
expose of Standard Oil in the book,
The History of Standard Oil
Who is
Ida Tarbell?
The Amendment that both Susan B.
Anthony and Jane Addams strongly
supported
What is the 19th Amendment?
(Women’s Suffrage)
The Amendment that changed the method
of electing the U.S. Senators from
selection by the state legislatures to direct
election by the people
What is the 17th Amendment?
The electoral reform that allowed the
voters to place a proposed law on the
ballot
What is initiative?
The 1913 Act of Congress that
resulted in a major reform of the
American banking system
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
The tax that was declared
unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court in Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan
and Trust Company, 1895
What is the income tax?
The rule that was
established by the 1896
Supreme Court case,
Plessy v. Ferguson
What is “separate but equal?”
The amendment that was used in
Weeks v. United States (1914) to
establish the exclusionary rule
What is 4th Amendment?
The rule that was established in the
1919 Supreme Court case, Schenck v.
United States to deal with First
Amendment and free speech
What is the clear and present danger
rule?
The President elected in 1916 with
the campaign rally cry that “He kept
us out of war.”
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The political party of Theodore
Roosevelt in the 1912 presidential
election
What is the Bull Moose or
Progressive Party?
The only man who has served as
President of the United States and
Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme
Court
Who is William Howard Taft?
The Socialist party candidate who ran
for the presidency in 1900, 1904,
1908, 1912, and in 1920 while he was
in prison
Who is Eugene B. Debs?
The controversial part of Wilson’s
Fourteen Points that caused the
Senate to reject the Treaty of
Versailles
What is the League of Nations?
The General who was sent to capture
the bandit Pancho Villa and later was
served as the Commander of the
American forces in World War I
Who is General John Pershing?
The three territories gained by the
United States after the Spanish
American War
What are Guam, the Philippines, and
Puerto Rico?
The policy added to the Monroe
Doctrine asserting the right of the
U.S. to police the Western
Hemisphere
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Preservation and Conservation
The act that allowed the President to
bypass Congress and establish
“historic landmarks, historic and
prehistoric structures, and other
objects of historic or scientific
interest” as national monuments
What is the Antiquities Act of 1906?