Jeopardy

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Jeopardy!!
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• Daily Double
• Describe how a political machine worked.
• The political bosses promised the captains jobs
  and/or money for votes for a certain candidate
  then the captains got people to cast their votes
  a certain way

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• What group in society supported the political
  machines?
• Immigrants

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• Name one way in which the political machines
  guaranteed that their candidates would be
  elected.
• Election fraud Graft Kickbacks

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• Who was the political boss that controlled
  Tammany Hall during the 1860s?
• William Macy Tweed

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• What was the name of the political cartoonist
  that eventually caused Boss Tweed to be arrested?
• Thomas Nast

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• While Grant was president from 1868 to 1876,
  there were many scandals. Name one.
• Credit Mobilier Whiskey Ring

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• From where did the name The Gilded Age come?
• Mark Twain and Charles Warner published a
  political satire novel which bore the title

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• Who were the stalwarts?
• Political group in Congress who opposed civil
  service reform

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• Garfield was elected in 1880 and was
  assassinated. His vice-president, Chester
  Arthur, passed what document that was a major
  reform law to the civil service (it effectively
  ended the practice of patronage)?
• Pendleton Civil Service Act

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• What Republican was elected in 1888 who
  overturned the reform movement and formed the
  Billion Dollar Congress?
• Benjamin Harrison

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• What group in American society formed the
  Populist movement?
• Farmers

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• Name one of the two major farmers unions.
• The Grange Movement or the Alliance Movement

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• Name one of the issues for which the populists
  fought.
• Graduated income tax, bank regulations,
  government ownership of the railroads, silver
  standard

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• For what, in terms of the money supply, did the
  Populists lobby?
• A silver standard

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• Why did the Populist Movement die out in the late
  1800s?
• The Democratic Party adopted the values of the
  Populist Movement

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• In what areas of the country did the Progressives
  work to improve life?
• The cities

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• Name two of the issues that Progressives tried to
  improve AND describe one of them.
• Workplace- conditions, children, pay, hours
  Society- social welfare, science and technology
  Morals- prohibition, prostitution

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• Who were the muckrakers?
• Investigative journalists that showed how bad
  life in the cities was

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• How did writers try to promote the Progressive
  causes?
• They showed the darker side of the cities through
  such books as Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser),
  The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton), The Promise
  of American Life (Herbert Croly), Democracy and
  Social Ethics (Jane Addams)

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• What class of people in America were most likely
  to be Progressives?
• The middle class

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• In 1900, how long did the average American work,
  how many days a week did they work, and how much
  did they get paid?
• 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, 1.50 a day

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• What effect did the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire have
  on safety in the workplace?
• Lawmakers passed worker protection laws

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• What stand did the US Supreme Court take on
  Progressive laws?
• The Supreme Court supported some laws and
  overturned others

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• Daily Double
• What type of economic policy did labor unions
  prefer?
• Socialism

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• Tell what one the following union acronyms stands
  for AFL, ILGWU, or IWW.
• AFL- American Federation of Labor ILGWU-
  International Ladies Garment Workers Union IWW-
  Industrial Workers of the World

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• Describe a tenement.
• Filthy, no air circulation, 4-16 families per
  floor, 25x100, two bathrooms

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• Who was Daniel Burnham?
• He designed Chicago, Washington, D.C., and
  Cleveland to be more urban-friendly

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• What two main issues did progressives identify
  that lead to moral decay?
• Drinking and Moviegoing

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• What groups did Progressives NOT help?
• African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic
  Americans, Immigrants

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• Who founded the National Association for the
  Advancement of Colored Persons (NAACP)?
• WEB DuBois

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• What was the model that immigrants were expected
  to follow in becoming American citizens?
• The melting pot

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• Daily Double
• Describe the initiative, referendum, and recall
• Initiative- laws are proposed by citizens
  referendum- laws are voted on by the people
  recall- officials can be elected out of office

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• What did the 17th Amendment accomplish?
• The direct election of senators

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• What change was made in the way that city
  governments were run in the early 1900s?
• The city commissioner/manager system replaced the
  mayoral system

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• How did Robert LaFollette reform the state of
  Wisconsin?
• Direct primary- got rid of political machines
  curbed lobbying regulated the utilities and
  railroads

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• When did Teddy Roosevelt become president?
• 1900

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• How did Teddy Roosevelt handle the strikes of
  1902?
• He allowed the workers to negotiate their terms

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• What was the Square Deal?
• Limiting the power of trusts, promoting public
  health, improving working conditions

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• Name one way in which Roosevelt helped to
  regulate trusts, regulate food and drug
  companies, or protect consumers,
• Trusts- use of the Sherman Anti-trust Act,
  Interstate Commerce Commission, Elkins Act,
  Hepburn Act Food and drug companies- Pure Food
  and Drug Act Consumer- Pure Food and Drug Act,
  Meat Inspection Act

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• How did Roosevelt protect the environment?
• He passed laws that allowed for reclamation and
  he established the National Park Service

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• Who did Teddy Roosevelt support for president in
  1908?
• William Howard Taft

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• What did the passage of the 16th Amendment
  accomplish?
• It allowed the federal government to pass an
  income tax

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• What effect did the Payne-Aldrich Tariff have on
  Tafts popularity?
• The progressives felt as though they had been
  betrayed

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• Why did Wilson win the election of 1912?
• Roosevelt split the Republican vote between
  himself and Taft and Wilson won

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• What did Wilsons New Freedom program accomplish?
• Lower tariffs, Banking reform, and an end to big
  business

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