Muckrakers and Media
This term describes investigative journalists who "raked up" and exposed the dirty truths about business corruption and city poverty
What is a muckraker
Ratified in 1920, this amendment finally granted women the right to vote nationwide.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This energetic president became famously known as the nation's chief "trust-buster."
Who is Theodore Roosevelt
This progressive activist started Hull House in Chicago to provide education, childcare, and medical help to poor immigrant families
Who was Jane Addams
Because it became the decisive state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment, Tennessee earned this famous nickname.
What is the "Perfect 36"
This famous photographer and muckraker took shocking pictures of the crowded New York City slums to show "How the Other Half Lives."
Who is Jacob Riis
This amendment, known as Prohibition, banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages across the United States
What is the 18th Amendment?
This term describes a giant company that completely controls an entire industry, eliminating all competition.
What is a monopoly (or a trust)
Progressive reformers fought hard to pass new laws banning this practice, ensuring young children went to school instead of dangerous coal mines and textile mills.
What is child labor
This young Tennessee representative cast the shocking, final tie-breaking vote for women's suffrage after receiving a letter from his mother
Who was Harry T. Burn
Muckrakers often wrote about the terrible, crowded conditions inside these low-income, poorly maintained city apartment buildings.
What are tenements
Before the 17th Amendment, state legislatures chose U.S. Senators; this reform allowed senators to be chosen directly by these people.
Who are the voters
o protect consumers from unfair pricing, President Roosevelt used government power to break up massive monopolies in this specific transportation industry.
What are the railroads
Hull House was a famous example of this type of neighborhood center, set up in poor urban areas to offer social services to the community.
What is a settlement house
This yellow flower was worn by Tennessee lawmakers who supported women's right to vote.
What is a yellow rose?
After reading shocking descriptions of the meatpacking industry in Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle, the government passed this law to make food production safer
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act (or Meat Inspection Act)
To help pay for new government programs and safety inspectors, the 16th Amendment gave Congress the power to collect a tax on this.
What is income (or personal income tax)
During the Progressive Era, these organizations were formed by workers to collectively strike and demand better pay, shorter hours, and safer factories.
What are labor unions
This term describes the massive wave of people leaving rural country farms to move into rapidly expanding cities for factory work
What is urbanization?
Anti-suffragists who opposed giving women the right to vote wore this color rose instead.
What is a red rose
The primary goal of muckrakers was to inform the public so the government would step in and make this—a word meaning systematic change to fix an injustice.
What is reform
According to the Constitution's rules for adding amendments, this fractional portion of all U.S. states must vote to approve an amendment before it becomes law.
What is three-fourths (3/4)
This term describes the rapid shift from a country of rural farms to a nation dominated by big factories and manufacturing centers.
What is industrialization
This famous labor leader and activist traveled the country fighting fiercely for the rights of coal miners and strictly enforcing child labor laws
Who was Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones)
This massive event held in Nashville showcased Tennessee's industrial progress and urbanization at the dawn of the Progressive Era
What was the Tennessee Centennial Exposition