Laws and Stuff
This seemingly unimportant amendment allows American to vote directly for U.S. senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This group of journalists earned their name by "raking up" the filth of society.
Who are muckrakers?
This president took office after the assassination of President William McKinley.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This is the name for the group of reformers working to improve society in the late 1800's.
Who are Progressives?
This man believed the way to fight discrimination was for African American's to improve their education and economic well being.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This amendment allowed women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This book showed how disgusting meat packing plants were and changed the meat industry forever!
What is The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
This was the first of the "Gilded Age Presidents" and he promised to reform government with "thorough, radical, and complete" changes.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
As "boss" of Tammany Hall this man might have stolen up to $200 million from New York City.
Who is William Marcy Tweed?
She founded the National Woman's Party and led a march on Washington.
Who is Alice Paul?
This amendment banned alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This author showed the squalor (sad, dirty) of life in the tenements in his book How the Other Half Lives.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This president was assassinated which left his vice president, Theodore Roosevelt, to take charge of the country.
Who is William McKinley?
This "fighter" was from Wisconsin and he led the way in reforming state governments.
Who is Robert M. La Follette (Fighting Bob)
Known for founding the National American Woman Suffrage Association these two women greatly believed in the right of women to vote.
Who are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony?
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
In her Memphis newspaper Free Speech this journalist drew attention to the lynching of African Americans.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This president is known as an outdoors-man and helped greatly expand the Forest Service.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This philosopher was a key supporter of early childhood education and he believe that children should be taught how to think not just memorize facts.
Who is John Dewey?
He was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and he was known for disagreeing with Booker T. Washington's view on how to fight discrimination.
Who was W. E. B. Du Bois?
This amendment allows the federal government to directly tax citizens income.
What is the 16th Amendment?
This author wrote in Our National Parks "Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home."
Who is John Muir?
This president's main goal was passing reform legislation. He focused on tariff revision and banking reform.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This man led the socialist union called Industrial Workers of the World.
Who is William "Big Bill" Haywood?
This woman was known for carrying a hatchet into saloons and smashing liquor bottles.
Who was Carry Nation?