1. Jeopardy – Progressive Edition #1
Political
Corruption
Reformers
Women’s
Suffrage
Progressive
Presidents
Progressive
Presidents II
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Final Jeopardy

2. 1 - $100
Within the political machine, these people (or representatives) controlled jobs and services.
“boss” or “ward boss”

3. 1 - $200
This term applies to a certain percentage of profits that goes back to the ward bosses
kickback

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 2 - $100
Leader of the American Socialist Party
Eugene Debs

8. 2 - $200
Name for Newspaper reporters who “exposed” the dirty deeds of corporations and politicians.
Muckrakers

9. 2 - $300
This person wrote a book warning about the power of Standard Oil Trust.
Ida Tarbell

10. 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

11. 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

12. 3 - $100
Someone who opposed to women’s right to vote is called a _____________________.
Anti-suffragist

13. 3 - $200
This was the first state that gave women the right to vote in non-federal elections.
Wyoming

14. 3 - $300
This suffragist believed in protesting in front of the White House in order to further her cause.
Alice Paul

15. 3 - $400
This president (reluctantly) supported Congress passing the 19th Amendment
Woodrow Wilson

16. 3 - $500
This movement helped pass the 18th Amendment which marked the start of Prohibition.
Temperance

17. 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)

18. 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

19. 4 - $300
America’s first “environmental” president
Roosevent

20. 4 - $400
This president was once the president of Princeton University.
Woodrow Wilson

21. 4 - $500
Roosevelt won re-election under the “Square Deal”, what was Wilson’s program called?
“New Freedom”

22. 5 - $100 What industry did the major strike in 1902 affect?
Mining / Coal

23. 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

24. 5 - $300
During Taft’s tenure, the 16th Amendment was passed. What did the Amendment NOT specify?
How individual income would be taxed.

25. 5 - $400
President who was assassinated, allowing for Roosevelt to come to power. Unlike Roosevelt, he supported Big Business.
William McKinley

26. 5 - $500
Name of trust that Roosevelt successfully broke in 1904, essentially taking on America’s wealthiest man, J.P. Morgan.
Northern Securities Company

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