Political Reform and the Progressive Era Jeopardy Important People 100 200 300 400 500 New Legislation 100 200 300 400 500 Progressive Women 100 200 300 400 500 Minority Groups 100 200 300 400 500 Miscellaneous 100 200 300 400 500

This event contributed to a spike in lynching after 1893. Miscellaneous for 100 This event contributed to a spike in lynching after 1893. What is an economic depression?

Miscellaneous for 200 This is a reason that reformers during the Gilded Age criticized the spoils system. What is the spread of corruption?

Miscellaneous for 300 Trustbusters want to break up this up. What are bad trusts?

Miscellaneous for 400 Theodore Roosevelt gave this nickname to reform journalists and novelists. What is a “Muckraker”?

Miscellaneous for 500 It took the women’s suffrage movement this many years to gain the right to vote . What is 50 years?

Important people for 100 Who was Ida B. Wells? African-American journalist who campaigned against mob violence aimed at African-Americans. Who was Ida B. Wells?

Who was Theodore Roosevelt? Important People for 200 He was known as a “Trustbuster”. Who was Theodore Roosevelt?

Important People for 300 Who was Howard Taft? He followed Theodore Roosevelt as president and passed more progressive legislation than Roosevelt. Who was Howard Taft?

Important People for 400 President when women gained the right to vote. Who was Woodrow Wilson?

Important People for 500 He was the president that took us into the 20th century and proceeded Teddy. Who was William McKinley?

Important Legislation for 100 A vote that results in the expulsion of an elected official. What is a recall?

Important Legislation for 200 The way in which some industrialists influenced politics in the late 1800’s. What was bribing members of Congress?

Important Legislation for 300 Act that created the Civil Service Commission. What was the Pendleton Act?

Important Legislation for 400 An action by Congress that sought to tame business excess. What was the passing of the Sherman Antitrust Act?

Important Legislation for 500 The main purpose behind the Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act. What was to regulate big business?

Progressive Women for 100 What is alcohol? Members of the temperance movement wanted to outlaw this. What is alcohol?

Progressive Women for 200 Century when women gained the opportunity to vote in most states. What is the 1900’s?

Women first received equal suffrage in this area of the country. Progressive Women for 300 Women first received equal suffrage in this area of the country. Daily Double! What is the West?

What is working state by state instead of nationally? Progressive Women for 400 Carrie Chapman Catt devised this strategy to win women’s suffrage. What is working state by state instead of nationally?

Progressive Women for 500 Who was Alice Paul? According to one woman suffragist the United States failed to be a true democracy because the government refused to give women the right to vote. Who was Alice Paul?

Minority Groups for 100 This group was affected the most by the “Gentleman's Agreement”. Who are workers from Japan?

Minority Groups for 200 Mexican Americans formed these self-help groups when they came to America. What are mutualistas?

Minority Groups for 300 Who was Booker T. Washington? - Educator who promoted patient progress for African Americans. Who was Booker T. Washington?

Minority Groups for 400 This is the reason for a flood of Mexican Americans into America in 1910. What was a revolution in Mexico?

This fought prejudice against Jewish people. Minority Groups for 500 This fought prejudice against Jewish people. What is the Anti-Defamation League?

This is Final Jeopardy!!!! Possible Answers Discuss three of the issues that needed reform in American society in the Gilded Age, then choose three people from this period, and explain how each person contributed to the reform of one of these problems. Possible Answers