Political Reform
This journalist exposed John D. Rockefeller's oil monopoly.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
Places with long working hours, little safety, and few rights for the employees
What are sweatshops?
The founder of the Hull House, a home for destitute urban people.
Nickname given to strikebreakers who replaced the striking workers
What are scabs?
A rapid growth of factories and immigration led to this type of living during the Gilded Age.
What is urban?
This corrupt city boss took bribes and kickbacks to make himself wealthy.
Who is "Boss" William Tweed?
A general term for someone who exposed corruption during the Progressive Era in order to create reform
Who are muckrakers?
This amendment prohibited alcohol in the United States.
What is the 18th Amendment?
An 1892 strike that took place at one of Carnegie's Pennsylvania steel mills
What is the Homestead Strike?
This industry often required families to work long hours in their tenements.
What is the garment industry?
This cartoonist exposed "Boss" Tweed's corruption and helped send him to jail.
Who is Thomas Nast?
This journalist exposed the corruption in the meatpacking industry with his book, The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This photojournalist captured images of life in the slum tenements.
Who is Jacob Riis?
A result of the McCormick factory workers protesting over their low wages
What is the Haymarket Riot?
This sweatshop disaster led to numerous fire and safety regulations in the workplace.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
What corrupt politicians took to make money illegally.
What are bribes/kickbacks?
This president pushed for legislation that reformed the meatpacking industry.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
Known as "Hatchet Granny," she was a strong supporter of the temperance and prohibition movements.
Who is Carrie A. Nation?
President Grover Cleveland called out the federal army to settle this labor dispute.
What is the Pullman Strike?
The founder of the American Federation of Labor
Who is Samuel Gompers?
The name of Boss Tweed's NYC political machine
What is the Tweed Ring/Tammany Hall?
The amount of time that Upton Sinclair spent undercover in a meatpacking plant
What is two months?
This state was the first to allow women to vote in 1869.
What is Wyoming?
Some claim that labor unions were responsible for the Haymarket bomb, while others claim this anti-government group.
Who are anarchists?
This law was a direct result of Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle.
What is the Meat Inspection Act -or- the Pure Food and Drug Act?