Kentucky History Chapter 13 Progressivism, Prohibition, and Politics 1900 -1920

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  1. 2. Acknowledged leader of the nineteenth century women's rights fight in Kentucky; her father had bitterly opposed women's rights
  2. 4. In 1906 a bill passed that allowed each ________ to decide whether it would allow alcohol sales (be wet) or not (be dry)
  3. 5. A bill forbidding railroads to offer free passes to public figures and a state antitrust law.
  4. 10. In less than a decade two politicians died from this kidney disease
  5. 12. Amendment that gave women the right to vote
  6. 15. This two-state cooperative formed in 1904 when a large number of farmers met at Guthrie
  7. 17. Nickname for the pandemic that swept through Kentucky and the US in 1918/1919
  8. 18. The label given to the time period from 1900-1920
  9. 20. Governor who allowed the people to vote on a state constitutional amendment that ended up banning alcohol in the home of bourbon before the nationwide ban in 1920
  10. 21. Nicknamed "Bothsides" and "Oily Jeems" this former governor was one of the most accomplished political survivors of Kentucky history
  11. 23. Women's rights leader in Kentucky who was known for saying, "Kentucky women are not idiots-even though they are closely related to Kentucky men."
  12. 24. In November 1920 Kentucky women were able to do this for the first time
  13. 25. Kentuckians' area of greatest difference regarding progressivism
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  1. 1. Author of the poem which ends in the lines, "The landscape is the grandest-and politics-the damndest In Kentucky"
  2. 3. The "Boy Governor"
  3. 6. Authorized the federal income tax
  4. 7. Brezing Owner of the most famous brothel in Kentucky
  5. 8. Despite a policy of neutrality when World War I initially broke out in Europe in 1914, __________ declared war by April 1917
  6. 9. The only governor in American history to die in office as a result of assassination
  7. 11. Another name for bourbon
  8. 13. Nickname for tobacco
  9. 14. In 1895 Louisville alone had 840 of these
  10. 16. Despite an overqualified record, this soldier was put on inactive status during wartime to prevent him from being appointed as a commander and thus being in charge of white troops
  11. 19. Once this man was pardoned of his crime in 1908, he quickly ran for a seat in the US House of Representatives and won
  12. 22. Lawless vigilante bands who rode across the regional to "persuade" farmers who had joined the PPA