Societal Reform
A journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in a society.
Muckraker
The right to vote.
Suffrage
Nickname President Roosevelt earned from his interactions with Trusts.
The Trustbuster
Issue which Roosevelt warned Taft to stay away from for fear that it would divide the Republican party.
Tariffs
A tax that someone pays, but the tax burden falls on someone else.
Indirect Tax
State which became known as a "Laboratory of Democracy" due to the many progressive reforms it underwent.
Wisconsin
Woman who at the Seneca Falls women's right convention convinced the delegates present that women should focus on suffrage.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Railroad holding company owned by J.P. Morgan which was ruled to have broken the Sherman Anti-trust act.
Northern Securities
Man who president Taft, in a move which angered Progressives, appointed as Secretary of the Interior.
Richard A. Ballinger
A tax based on the net income of a person or business.
Income Tax
The right that enables voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials from office.
Recall
Women's suffrage organization based out of New York City and founded by Susan B. Anthony.
National Woman Suffrage Association
Author of The Jungle a book which chronicled the unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.
Upton Sinclair
Name one of the achievements of President Taft.
Several
ADL stands for this.
Anti-Defamation League
The practice of letting voters accept or reject measures proposed by the legislature.
Referendum
Amendment which gave women the right to vote.
The 19th Amendment
Part of the government which was given the authority to inspect business operations to ensure that products were safe before they were shipped to the public.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Nickname of the Progressive political party which Theodore Roosevelt founded.
The Bull Moose Party
Organization which was established at the behest of President Wilson to monitor American business.
Federal Trade Commission
Amendment which allowed for the direct election of senators by US citizens.
The 17th Amendment
Women's suffrage movement which was formed out of two previous groups which desired to pool their resources.
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Man who President Roosevelt appointed as the head of the United States Forest Service.
Gifford Pinchot
The contender for the Presidential Election of 1912 who garnered the fewest votes.
William Howard Taft
Amendment which allowed for the taxing of income.
The 16th Amendment