Muckrakers
Journalists who exposed problems in society
What are muckrakers?
Law that broke up monopolies
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Founder of Hull House
Who is Jane Addams?
Meaning of “progressive”
What is moving toward improvement using new ideas?
System where businesses are privately owned
What is capitalism/free enterprise?
This muckraker photographed poor living conditions in NYC
Who is Jacob Riis?
Law that made food and medicine safer
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
President known as a “trustbuster”
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Meaning of laissez-faire
What is “leave it alone” government?
People who start businesses
What are entrepreneurs?
This book exposed dangerous meatpacking conditions
What is The Jungle?
Places like Hull House that helped immigrants
What are settlement houses?
Believed in economic progress first for Black Americans
Who is Booker T. Washington?
A person who supports government control of major industries
What is a socialist?
Roosevelt’s actions against monopolies were called
What is trust-busting?
This reform came from The Jungle
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act (or Meat Inspection Act)?
This amendment gave women the right to vote
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
Believed in immediate civil rights and helped found the NAACP
Who is W. E. B. Du Bois?
To exclude or ignore someone
What is ostracize?
This economic idea supports little government involvement
What is laissez-faire?
She exposed the practices of Standard Oil
Who is Ida Tarbell?
These laws (poll tax, literacy tests) prevented Black Americans from voting
What is political disenfranchisement?
Reformer who improved mental health care
Who is Dorothea Dix?
Government with unlimited power
What is absolutism?
Group that believed businesses should be publicly owned
Who are socialists?