Inventors & Technology
This inventor developed a practical incandescent light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This movement supported ordinary working people over wealthy elites.
What is Populism?
Investigative journalists who exposed corruption and unsafe conditions.
Who were the muckrakers?
This president was known as the "Trustbuster."
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
Many reformers wanted to end this practice involving children working long hours.
What is child labor?
This invention allowed people to communicate over long distances using sound.
What is the telephone?
This organization was founded by Oliver Hudson Kelley to support farmers.
What is the Grange?
This author wrote The Jungle.
Who was Upton Sinclair?
Roosevelt's program had three goals: controlling corporations, protecting consumers, and conserving resources.
What was the Square Deal?
This organization worked to improve conditions for working children.
What was the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC)?
This inventor won the patent battle for the telephone in 1876.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This economic policy called for unlimited coinage of silver.
What is free silver?
This muckraker exposed John D. Rockefeller's business practices.
Who was Ida Tarbell?
This law gave the government more authority to regulate railroad rates.
What was the Hepburn Act?
This photographer became known as "an investigator with a camera."
Who was Lewis Hine?
This company organized nationwide telephone service in 1885.
What is AT&T?
These demands called for direct election of senators and other reforms.
What were the Ocala Demands?
This photographer documented poor housing conditions in New York tenements.
Who was Jacob Riis?
Roosevelt created this department to investigate trusts.
What was the Department of Commerce and Labor?
This labor organization grew to 500,000 members by 1900.
What was the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
This inventor developed long-distance radio communication.
Who is Guglielmo Marconi?
This Republican candidate defeated William Jennings Bryan in 1896.
Who was William McKinley?
These two laws were passed after the publication of The Jungle.
What were the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This 1906 law allowed presidents to create national monuments.
What was the Antiquities Act?
This reform era sought to solve problems caused by industrialization through government action, consumer protections, labor reforms, and regulation of big business.
What was the Progressive Movement?