Economic Problems and Reform
Muckrakers
Social Problems and Reform
Political Problems and Reform
Progressive Presidents
100

A company controls an entire industry and eliminates competition.

Monopoly

100

Journalists who exposed corruption and social problems during the Progressive Era.

Muckrakers

100

Overcrowding, disease, and lack of sanitation were problems faced by this group.

Urban poor or immigrants

100

This amendment created a graduated income tax.

16th Amendment
100
President known as the "Trust Buster." 
Theodore Roosevelt
200

Children during the Progressive Era often worked long hours in these dangerous places instead of going to school.

Factories, mines, or mills

200

He wrote the Jungle, exposing unsanitary meatpacking conditions.

Upton Sinclair

200

This amendment gave women the right to vote.

19th Amendment

200

This amendment allowed voters to directly elect U.S. Senators.

17th Amendment

200

Roosevelt's domestic program based on fairness.

Square Deal

300

This economic policy allowed businesses to operate with little government interference.

Laissez-faire

300

She exposed Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller.

Ida Tarbell

300

The right for women to vote.

Suffrage

300

This reform allows voters to remove an elected official before their term ends.

Recall

300

The President known for Dollar Diplomacy

William Howard Taft

400

This act made trusts illegal but was not strongly enforced at first.

Sherman Antitrust Act

400

He photographed and wrote about the horrible living conditions of the urban poor.

Jacob Riis

400

Settlement house founded in Chicago by Jane Addams.

Hull House

400

This reform allows citizens to propose laws.

Initiative

400

This act created the central banking system.

Federal Reserve Act

500

This Supreme Court case ruled that limiting bakery hours to 60 hours violated freedom of contract.

Lochner v. New York

500

He revealed political corruption in cities and wrote "The Shame of the Cities"

Lincoln Steffens

500

This Supreme Court case established "separate but equal."

Plessy v. Ferguson

500

This reform allows citizens to vote directly on laws that are passed by the legislature.

Referendum

500

The 3 C's of Roosevelt's Square Deal.

Conservation, Consumer Protection, and Corporation Control

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