Muckrakers & Scandals
A journalist who exposed corruption and abuses of power to inspire reform.
What is a muckraker?
Organizations formed by workers to negotiate wages and improve working conditions.
What are labor unions?
Corrupt political organizations that controlled elections through bribes, intimidation, and favors.
What are political machines?
The right to vote in political elections.
What is suffrage?
Laws enforcing segregation in the South.
What is Jim Crow?
Progressive Era journalist most associated with exposing Standard Oil.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
A refusal to work in order to pressure employers into concessions.
What is a strike?
This type of Progressive reform focused on fair elections and expanding participation.
What is political reform?
Women's rights convention in 1848 that helped launch the suffrage movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Supreme Court case that established "separate but equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Book published in 1906 that exposed worker exploitation in Chicago's meatpacking industry.
What is "The Jungle"?
Process where employees bargain with their employer as a single unit rather than individually.
What is collective bargaining?
A direct vote by citizens on a proposed law.
What is a referendum?
Suffrage strategy focusing on gradual change through state-by-state campaigns.
Who were incrementalists?
The belief that society can be improved by controlling who is "fit" and "unfit" to reproduce.
What is eugenics?
The real purpose of The Jungle
What is exposing worker exploitation and corporate greed?
Court orders often used against unions that forced workers to stop striking or to return to work.
What is an injunction?
The process of taking legal action in courts to challenge injustice.
What is litigation?
One major argument used by anti-suffragists: voting would disrupt this key institution.
What is the family/household?
Supreme Court case that supported forced sterilization laws.
What is Buck v. Bell?
In the meat scandal cartoon, the word "Investigation" suggests the government acted mainly because of this force.
What is public outrage?
The most common employer/government response to union organization
What are:
1) Blacklists
2) Injunctions
3) Military/Police violence
Progressive reform that allowed citizens to remove an elected official from office.
What is a recall?
Opposition to women's suffrage came from which TWO groups?
Who are men AND women?
Development that most directly contributed to the start of the Black Nadir.
What is the Compromise of 1877?