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DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
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PlacesLegislation
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’?