Employer Response and Labor Unions
Employers would not allow employees to return to work?
Lockouts
Wrote stories exposing the abuse of workers in government and big business
muckrakers
Women's right to vote
Women's Suffrage
Allowed individuals to vote secretly
Secret Ballot
Who was the trust-busting president?
Teddy Roosevelt
Molly Maguires
Wrote "The Jungle" that exposed the meatpacking industry
Upton Sinclair
What was the main reason alcohol was banned?
Domestic Abuse
Holding special elections to remove corrupt officials from office before their terms have expired
Recall
16th Amendment
Caused public support of unions to decline
Haymarket Riot
Used his photography to enact social reform
Lewis Hines
Movement to rid the society of alcohol
Temperance Movement
People would select the candidates for public office, rather than having party bosses select them
Direct primary
Amendment that established a law that US Senators would be elected directly by the people rather than by state legislatures
17th Amendment
Showed employers the federal government was on their side during strikes
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Exposed political corruption in St. Louis and other cities
Lincoln Steffens
19th Amendment
Allowing for citizens of the state to force a vote on a particular issue
Initiative
Reform to help the support the needs of the common people
Square Deal
Court order that forbade strikes because they violated the law or threatened public interests
injunctions
Exposed the numerous abuses of the Standard Oil trust
Eighteenth
Allowing citizens to vote directly on proposed laws and policies
Referendum
Responsible for the safety regulation of most foods, drugs, and supplements in the US
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)