Jeopardy – Progressive Edition #1 Political Corruption Reformers Women’s Suffrage Progressive Presidents Progressive Presidents II $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 Final Jeopardy

1 - $100 Within the political machine, these people (or representatives) controlled jobs and services. “boss” or “ward boss”

1 - $200 This term applies to a certain percentage of profits that goes back to the ward bosses kickback

1 - $300 This term is another name for the spoils system – a system that awards supporters of a particular individual with jobs or special favors patronage

1 - $400 The Pendleton Act established the Civil Service Comission. Now people who wanted non-appointed government jobs would have to do what? Take a competitive exam for a chance at a job.

1 - $500 What was the name of the infamous New York City bosses who stole almost 250 million dollars from the city, fled to Spain and who later got sent to jail on account of Thomas Nast’s cartoons depicting him? Boss Tweed or William Tweed

2 - $100 Leader of the American Socialist Party Eugene Debs

2 - $200 Name for Newspaper reporters who “exposed” the dirty deeds of corporations and politicians. Muckrakers

2 - $300 This person wrote a book warning about the power of Standard Oil Trust. Ida Tarbell

2 - $400 Sinclair’s book The Jungle helped Congress pass the Meat Inspection Act; what other act did congress pass the same year that can trace its roots back to Sinclair’s novel? Pure Food & Drug Act

2 - $500 ___________ allows voters to put an issue on a ballot ___________ allows voters to directly accept or reject measures that the state legislature enacts ___________ allows for the voters to remove elected officals from their jobs Initiative, referendum, recall

3 - $100 Someone who opposed to women’s right to vote is called a _____________________. Anti-suffragist

3 - $200 This was the first state that gave women the right to vote in non-federal elections. Wyoming

3 - $300 This suffragist believed in protesting in front of the White House in order to further her cause. Alice Paul

3 - $400 This president (reluctantly) supported Congress passing the 19th Amendment Woodrow Wilson

3 - $500 This movement helped pass the 18th Amendment which marked the start of Prohibition. Temperance

4 - $100 This “Third or Minority” party led to a division of the Republican party in the 1912 election causing the democratic Candidate to win. Bull Moose Party (Progressive Party)

4 - $200 This President used the Sherman Anti-trust Act to break more trusts than the previous president who actually put power behind the act. Taft

4 - $300 America’s first “environmental” president Roosevent

4 - $400 This president was once the president of Princeton University. Woodrow Wilson

4 - $500 Roosevelt won re-election under the “Square Deal”, what was Wilson’s program called? “New Freedom”

5 - $100 What industry did the major strike in 1902 affect? Mining / Coal

5 - $200 Under Wilson’s presidency, Congress passed this act that required any bank that operated nationally to abide by this acts set of laws. Federal Reserve Act

5 - $300 During Taft’s tenure, the 16th Amendment was passed. What did the Amendment NOT specify? How individual income would be taxed.

5 - $400 President who was assassinated, allowing for Roosevelt to come to power. Unlike Roosevelt, he supported Big Business. William McKinley

5 - $500 Name of trust that Roosevelt successfully broke in 1904, essentially taking on America’s wealthiest man, J.P. Morgan. Northern Securities Company

Final Jeopardy What belief did Wilson, Taft and Roosevelt all have in common? Business should serve public and government should regulate business.