1. What was it called when people were given jobs based upon support rather than qualifications?

2. Spoils system

3. What are civil service jobs?

4. Government jobs which are not elected or part of the military.

5. How was the spoils system reformed?

6. The Civil Service Commission was formed. It was responsible for filling government jobs. People had to take the civil service exam to be eligible for jobs.

7. How were trusts and monopolies reformed?

8. The Sherman Antitrust Act forbade trusts although it was used against unions at first.

9. My political cartoons were aimed at reforming city governments. Who was I?

10. Thomas Nast

11. What were newspaper reporters who exposed corruption called?

12. muckrakers

13. I was a leading boss. Thomas Nast targeted me with his cartoons.

14. William “Boss” Tweed

15. I was a muckraker who targeted big businesses.

16. Ida Tarbell

17. My book How the Other Half Lives featuring photographs of city living conditions helped improve living conditions in tenements.

18. Jacob Riis

19. The Declaration of Sentiments was written at this women’s rights meeting in 1848.

20. Seneca Falls Convention

21. These two women led the National Women’s Suffrage Association – a group that wanted to amend the Constitution so women can vote.

22. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

23. What does suffrage mean?

24. The right to vote

25. What amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920?

26. 19 th Amendment

27. Who was known as the trustbusting president?

28. Teddy Roosevelt

29. What did Teddy Roosevelt think about trusts?

30. Some trusts were good and should be left alone while others were bad and should be broken up.

31. What was Teddy Roosevelt’s plan where all people should have an equal opportunity to succeed called?

32. Square deal

33. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union was against was problem of society?

34. The abuse of alcohol.

35. I was a leader of the W.C.T.U.

36. Frances Willard

37. I was a member of the temperance movement who went and destroyed saloons using a hatchet.

38. Carry Nation

39. What was the result of the temperance movement?

40. 18 th Amendment (1919) which prohibited the sale of alcohol. The 21 st Amendment got rid of this amendment.

41. I was a muckraker who exposed the meatpacking industry with my novel The Jungle. The Pure Food and Drug Act was passed as a result of my work.

42. Upton Sinclair

43. I was known as the conservationist president.

44. Teddy Roosevelt

45. Gifford Pinchot and John Muir were associated with this movement to save the environment.

46. conservation

47. I founded Tuskegee Institute. I accepted segregation and believed that by becoming educated African Americans could improve their lives.

48. Booker T. Washington

49. This organization worked for African American rights.

50. NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

51. Who was the leading African scientist who specialty was finding uses for peanuts and peanut products?

52. George Washington Carver

53. What leader urged African Americans to fight discrimination?

54. W.E.B. DuBois