Progressivism
What term was given to the time period of immense wealth at the top but struggles for everyone else?
The Gilded Age
What did Jacob Riis expose with "How the Other Half Lives?"
Tenement conditions
Which President was known as the "trustbuster"?
Teddy Roosevelt
What did Jane Addams pioneer in order to help poor immigrants?
Settlement Houses
What did Progressives believe in?
See improvement by embracig change
What law was based due to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle?
Pure Food and Drug Act
What was the first law that targeted trusts?
Sherman Antitrust Act
What workplace disaster helped further work safety reform?
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
This amendment made the election of Senators direct by the voters.
Seventeenth Amendment
Who was a muckraker that used political cartoons to expose corruption?
Thomas Nast
What law improved the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Clayton Antitrust Act
Thanks to Lewis Hine's work, what law got passed that targeted child labor?
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Who coined the term "Gilded Age"?
Mark Twain
Which muckraker targeted the Standard Oil Company?
Ida Tarbell
What is a gap in a law called?
Loophole
What law was passed under Teddy Roosevelt that targeted conservation?
Antiquities Act of 1906
During the Gilded Age, what percent owned more wealth at the top than everyone else?
1%
Which muckraker focus on child labor?
Lewis Hine
What agency was created the Interstate Commerce Act?
Interstate Commerce Commission
Who was the early reformer that inspired many social reformists of the Progressive Era?
Dorothea Dix