People
A person who exposes corruption in politics and big business
Who is a muckraker?
Political Reformers who worked to improve the political system
What is progressivism?
This legislation aimed to protect consumers from unsafe food and drugs by regulating conditions in the food and drug industries.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Progressive Era reformer who opened the Hull House in Chicago to provide social settlements to immigrants
Who is Jane Addams?
The shift from rural areas to large cities.
What is Urbanization?
This act was passed in response to Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle, and established federal inspection of meat products to ensure their safety and sanitary conditions
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
Muckraker who wrote the book, The Jungle, that exposed the meatpacking industry
Who is Upton Sinclair?
The transformation of an economy based on large scale industry.
What is Industrialization?
Direct election of Senators by the people
What is the 17th amendment?
President that supported the Pure Food and Drug Act
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
A period of extravagant displays of wealth, growing poverty, and government inaction in the face of income inequality.
What is the Gilded Age?
Grants Congress the power to levy an income tax on individuals and corporations, without apportioning it among the states based on population
What is the 16th amendment?