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Final Jeopardy
Vocabulary
People
Economic
Political
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Social
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People who want to improve
the conditions of society
caused from Industrialization
and the growth of cities
Who are Progressives?
This allowed business, goods and
people to travel and spread across the
country (interstate commerce)
What is the transcontinental
Railroad?
Investigative journalists who
exposed the problems of
corruption in city governments
and Big Business
What are
muckrakers?
This word means to vote.
What is suffrage?
The Sherman Anti-trust law
was passed in attempts to
What is increase
competition? OR What is
regulate Big Business
Teddy Roosevelt’s nickname for
his opposition to big business and
attempts to regulate them
What is
Trustbuster?
Thomas Nast drew political
cartoons about Boss Tweed to
help fix the problems in
this…or with these…
What is
Government?
(what are political
machines)
Upton Sinclair wrote this book which
exposed the horrors of the meat
packing industry
What is The Jungle?
DAILY
DOUBLE
What was the result of the
invention of the assemble line
to mass produce products
faster?
What is Lower prices?
This tragedy resulted in safer factory
working conditions in New York
State.
What is the Triangle Fire?
A complaint about Big
Business is that they force
small businesses out and
control industries
What is eliminate
competition?
During the Gilded Age, it was said
that monopolists controlled the …
What is Senate
(government)?
By President Teddy Roosevelt
enforcing the Interstate Commerce
Commission, he was attempting to do
this
What is control the RR
industry’s prices and make
them more fair.
These muckrakers tried to expose the
problems of child labor and tenement
life.
Who is Lewis Hine and
Jacob Riis?
This was called “New Slavery”
because freedmen were still tied to
the land
What is sharecropping?
Bribery and the spoils system
are examples of this…
Corruption
The system in which government
jobs were given as personal favors
from elected officials
What is the spoils system
or Patronage system
This Supreme Court Case made
segregation legal in the U.S.
What is Plessy v.
Ferguson?
This Amendment gave women the
right to vote.
th
19 Amendment?
The South tried to limit the rights of
African Americans to vote by
creating laws such as
What are the literacy test
and poll tax?
These were the crowded city buildings
where immigrants and factory workers
lived
What are tenements?
By allowing the people to vote on
U.S. senators, the 17th Amendment
made it so who couldn’t control the
Senate?
What is Big Business?
What was the name of John D.
Rockefeller’s monopoly?
What is Standard Oil?
This law was made to correct the
spoils system in which unqualified
people were given government jobs.
What is the Civil Service
Act (exam)?
Immigration, the industrial
revolution, and new factory jobs
caused this
What is the growth of
cities (urbanization)?
FINAL
JEOPARDY
Reform
?
13th amendment, 14th amendment, 15th
amendment, Civil service commission, 16th
amendment, 17th amendment, the square
deal, and the 19th amendment
What are ways the government has
been improved to make our
country more democratic?