History semester 2 Chapter 17 whole quiz

President Roosevelt gave the nickname of ‘‘_________” to those writers who dramatized the need for various types of reform by bringing inequalities to the front of american attention.

Muckraker

Community centers called ______ provided social services to the urban poor.

settlement houses

A women’s rights activist named ________ created controversy by opening up the country’s. first birth control clinic.

Margaret Sanger

________, a leader in the struggle for black rights, urged black Americans to demand their rights.

W.E.B. Dubios

The black rights orginization_________ , decided to use the courts system to challenge the discriminatory laws of the US.

NAACP

Theodore Roosevelt nicknamed his progressive plan for fair government the ______.

Square Deal

A friend of Roosevelts, _______ ran the division of Forestry under the president and contributed to Roosevelts views on conservationism.

Gifford Pinchot

President _______ attacked the “triple wall of privilege” that he said damaged the ability of the american small businesses to succeed.

Woodrow Wilson

By clearly defining what businesses could, and could not do, the ________ strengthened the previously passed Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

Clayton Anti- Trust

_____ novels told stories of human suffering and the struggles of the common American.

Naturalists

The social Gospel was a philosophy of social reform that _________ wrote about in his book entitled Christianity and the Social Crisis.

Walter Rauschen Busch

Some progressives tried to “_______” immigrants by encouraging them to follow white, middle-class ways of life.

Americanize

The ______ focused on helping poor African American workers.

Urban League

During the 1902 coal miners’ strike in Pennsylvania, Roosevelt ordered the _____ to take over daily operations of the mine so that the energy. needs of America could be met.

Army

Which group of the Americans was most affected by the Dawes Act?

NAtive Americans

In 1914, the __________ was created to monitor business activities that could lead to a company forming a monopoly.

Federal Trade Commision

Upton Sinclair wrote a progressive Era book called ______ that unintentionally described the hazardous conditions of meat factories before government regulations made them sanitary.

The Jungle

The _______ fire led to over 120 deaths and to better worlers compensation laws.

Triangle Shirt Wasser

A __________ is an election in which citizens vote to select nominees for upcoming elections.

Direct Primary

A ________ allows citizens to approve or reject laws passed by our legislature.

Referendum

Women of the WCTU campaigned for ______, the practice of never drinking alcohol.

Temperance

______ Formed the Women’s Trade Union League to push for laws that could benefit women working in factories.

Florence Kelley

The ____ Amendment stated that the right to vote “shall not be denied to abridged on account of sex"“

19th

The national association of Colored Women was founded by ________ to help African American families and those that were leff fortunate.

Mary Church Terrell

In 1903, the Supreme Court decision ______ VS. ____ unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, upheld the laws that limited the amount of hours women could work.

Muller VS. Oregon

__________ were groups that provided legal assistance and loans to Americans from Mexico.

Mutualistas

Violence came to a head at the _____ and led to formation of the NAACP.

Springfield Riot

_____________ Formed the Anti-Defamation League to defend themselves against verbal attacks and false statements.

jewish Americans

A 191 California law forced _______ to sell their land as they were not natural born citizens of this country. Most of them got around the law by putting the land in their children’s names.

Japanese Immigrants

Roosevelt’s plan for the American people when he took over the presidency was called the _____ and promised to protect the average American from big businesses and wealthy.

Square Deal

Roosevelt became president of the U.S. when _____ was assassinated in 1900.

William McKinley

The _______ required federal inspection of meat processing plants.

meat inspection act.

The work of naturalist _________ led congress to establish Yosemite National Park in 1890

Jhon Muir

The ___________ bans shipment of impure food and mislabeled food and drugs.

Pure food and drug act

Roosevelt often took the advice of _______, a preservationist that believes in “rational use” for the land.

Gifford pinchot

Roosevelt supported his friend, __________ in the 1908 election because he thoufht he would continue his programs.

William Howard Taft

THe new progressive party called the ________ was created in time for the 1912 election and supported Roosevelt but eventually would help split the Republican vote and help Wilson win.

Bull Moose Party

The National Reclamation Act directly affected the management of which natural resource?

Water

_______ set out wilson’s plan for government in the U.S.

THe new Fredom

__________ gav congress the power to create an income tax.

16th amendment

______ placed national banks under the authority of a central authority.

The Federal Reserve Act

Wilson pushed for the _______ to prevent a nationwide railroad strike.

Adamson Act.