Muckrakers
This muckraker supported prohibition and was a leader in the women's temperance movement. She would also carry an axe around to smash alcohol bottles.
Who is Carry Nation?
This act was the first measure passed by the US Congress to dissolve monopolies.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
The Progressive Movement started in this century.
What is the 20th century/ 1900s?
Progressives wanted to give political power to these.
What are the people?
The grocery store incident in Tennessee that involved Thomas Moss is an example of this. Mobs of white citizens would hold a public execution called this to African-American citizens.
What is lynching?
This muckraker wrote "How the Other Half Lives" exposing the deplorable living conditions of the slums.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This act required federal inspection of meat and required the Agricultural Department (USDA) to set standards of cleanliness in meatpacking plants.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
This is the movement that wanted to ban alcohol.
What is the temperance movement?
This is the way that people can remove elected officials.
What is a recall?
This is the separation of the 2 races by making it law.
What is segregation?
This muckraker exposed Standard Oil.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This Act banned the sale of impure or falsely labeled food or drugs.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
The reforms of the Progressive Movement focused on these injustices.
What is social injustice?
This is how people vote on legislation.
What is a referendum?
This is discrimination enforced by law.
What is Jim Crow?
This muckraker was a key figure in the forming of the NAACP and was a friend of Thomas Moss.
Who is Ida Wells?
Congress established this administration in 1906 under TR to prevent the manufacture, sale, or transportation of misbranded or poisonous food.
What is the Food and Drug Administration?
This outdoorsman was seen as the "father of national parks."
Who is John Muir?
When people propose legislation, it's called this.
What is initiative?
This is a conscious effort to keep African-Americans from voting.
What is disenfranchisement?
This muckraker wrote "The Shame of the Cities" exposing political machines and bosses.
Who is Lincoln Steffens?
This act gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set railroad rates.
What is the Hepburn Act?
What is control corporations, consumer protection, and conservation?
State level reforms led to the expansion of citizens direct participation in this process.
What is the democratic process?
This limited then eventually stopped Chinese immigration.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?