Legislation
Regulated the Railroad for overcharging farmers.
Interstate Commerce Act
Believed in a foreign policy called "Dollar Diplomacy".
Taft
Name given to reporters who dug up the "dirt" in society.
Muckrakers
Cause: "The Jungle".
Effect: Pure Food and Drug Act
Wrote "How The Other Half Lives".
Jacob Riis
Was a legislative result of Upton Sinclair's book, "The Jungle".
The Pure Food and Drug Act
Democratic President elected in the year 1912.
Woodrow Wilson
Jane Adams is responsible for the creation of what?
Hull House
Cause: Plessy V Ferguson
Effect: Legalized segregation
Created the National Park Service
Teddy Roosevelt
Established the Federal Income Tax
The 16th Amendment
Said "Speak softly, but carry a big stick".
Teddy Roosevelt
This person was a teacher and formed the Tuskegee Institute.
Booker T. Washington
Effect: Interstate Commerce Act
Nicknamed "The Trust Buster"
Teddy Roosevelt
Established Women's right to vote
The 19th Amendment
Name of the 3rd party created by Teddy Roosevelt
The Bull Moose Party
Formed the NAACP and demanded immediate racial equality.
W.E.B. Dubois
Effect: 19th Amendment
Three Amendments ratified after Civil War
13, 14, and 15th Amendments
Established the principle of "Separate but Equal".
Plessy v Ferguson
Which president was in office when the Clayton Antitrust Act was passed?
Woodrow Wilson
Wrote a book that led to legislation regulating Food and Drug companies.
Upton Sinclair
Cause: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Department of Labor
and/ or
Child Labor Act
Allowed for citizens to petition to remove a sitting official due to corruption or poor performance.
Recall