DOUBLE JEOPARDY!

THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

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Progressive Potpourri

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DOUBLE JEOPARDY!

FINAL JEOPARDY

Wilson - 200

What was created in 1913 to make currency and credit

more elastic?

Wilson - 200 answer

What was the Federal Reserve?

Wilson - 400

What law strengthened the Sherman Act of 1890 by

specifying what practices big businesses could not engage

in?

Wilson - 400 answer

What is the Clayton Anti-Trust Act?

Wilson - 600

What was established in 1913 with the power to investigate

suspected violations of federal regulations in

commerce law?

Wilson - 600 answer

What was the Federal Trade Commission?

Wilson - 800

Wilson’s plan to promote free and fair competition

in the economy of the United States?

Wilson - 800 answer

What is New Freedom?

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

What is the Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act?

(acc. Underwood Tariff)

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

What were trustbusters?

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

What is the National Forest Service?

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

What is the Northern Securities Case?

TR and Taft - 800

In his support for both management and labor, TR

promised this to the American people.

TR and Taft - 800 answer

What is the Square Deal?

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

What is the Mann-Elkins Act?

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

What is Wisconsin?

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

Who is Booker T. Washington?

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

Who is Robert LaFollette?

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

Who is Jane Addams?

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

What are the 16th and 17th Amendments?

Legislation - 600

What long-standing American “movement”

led to the eventual ratification of the 18th

amendment?

Legislation - 600 answer

What is the Temperance Movement (acc. Prohibition)?

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

What are the Elkins and Hepburn Acts?

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

What is the Payne-Aldrich Tariff?

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

What is “The Jungle”?

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

What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People? (acc. N.A.A.C.P.)

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

What is National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA)?

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’?