Muckrakers
He photographed living conditions in the tenements
Who is Jacob Riis?
This event was a widespread railroad strike and boycott that disrupted rail traffic in the U.S. Midwest in June–July 1894 where lower rents were also refused.
What is the Pullman Strike of 1894?
the first women's rights convention held in 1848 called for women's equality
What is The Seneca Falls Convention?
a government's action to break up monopolies or trusts that have too much control over a market and prevent competition.
What is trust busting?
a social movement promoting temperance or complete abstinence from consumption of alcoholic beverages.
What is the Temperance Movement?
He wrote the book “The Jungle” which criticized the conditions of Chicago's meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Political groups working in the early 20th century to reform urban municipal governments in the United States that were dominated by dishonest activity and corruption.
What is the Good Government Movement?
President of the NAWSA. Voted illegally and went to jail. Worked to gain independence and equality for women.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
This plan reflected his three major goals: conservation of natural resources, corporate law, and consumer protection.
What is the Square Deal?
The enforcement of a set of moral principles or codes of conduct, often based on cultural or religious beliefs.
What is Morality policing?
He exposed government corruption
Who is Lincoln Steffens?
These initiatives permitted citizens to vote for or against a proposed state law and asked citizens to vote for or against an existing state law.
What is Initiative and Referendum?
Formed in 1890, it was the result of a merger between two rival factions--led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Avocated in favor of women's suffrage in the United States
What is the NAWSA?
required accurate ingredient labeling and prohibited the sale of adulterated and misbranded food and drugs in interstate commerce.
What is The Pure Food and Drug Act?
The scientifically inaccurate theory that humans can be improved through selective breeding of populations.
What is the Eugenics Movement?
In her most famous work, The History of the Standard Oil Company, she revealed after years of painstaking research, the illegal means used by John D. Rockefeller to monopolize the early oil industry.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
Founder of the American Railway Union (ARU), one of the nation's first industrial unions.
Who is Eugene Debs?
Created the first organized demand for women's suffrage in the United States. Her work resulted in the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
with the goal of conserving natural resources for economic security and enjoyment, this was established to create five national parks and many other wildlife refuges and reservations.
What is the United States Forest Service?
Bans the sale, manufacture, distribution, and transportation of alcohol across the country.
What is the 18th Amendment?
An African-American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This amendment allowed for the direct election of senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
Social, civil, and religious rights of women
What is Women's Suffrage?
A great strike in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania threatened a coal famine. The President feared untold misery with the certainty of riots.
What is the coal strike of 1902?
An American sociologist, historian, author, editor, and activist who was the most important Black protest leader in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. He shared in the creation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
Who was W. E. B. Du Bois?