Muckrakers
This muckraker exposed the horrible conditions of the meatpacking industry and wrote The Jungle...
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This Amendment allowed woman's suffrage.
What is the 19th Amendment?
someone who has moved from one nation to another with the intention of living there permanently
immigrant
The explosion of this U.S. battleship in Havana Harbor sparked the war with Spain.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
This system of laws in the South enforced racial segregation in public places.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This Journalists and Photographer that exposed the truth about people living in City Slums...
Who is Jacob Riis?
The Amendment made it illegal to make, transport, and sell alcohol. a side effect was an increase in crime.
What is the 18th Amendment?
where most immigrants coming from Europe were processed when coming to America
Ellis Island
This president was handpicked by Roosevelt at his successor.
Who is William Taft?
This fee had to be paid before voting, preventing many poor African Americans and whites from voting.
What is a Poll Tax?
This African American journalist and suffragist, exposed the Truth about Lynching's in America...
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This ammendment afforded the direct election of senators by the people
What is the 17th Ammendment?
Many Asian immigrants arrived on the West Coast and were processed on this island.
what is Angel Island?
Roosevelt’s reform program was called this.
What is Square Deal?
This clause allowed poor whites to vote if their ancestors could vote before the Civil War.
What is Grandfather Clause?
This muckraker exposed the ruthless tactics of Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company through series of published articles in McClure's Magazine
Who is Ida Tarbell?
Organization that was created to inspect standards with food and medicine
What is the Food and Drug Administration?
The growth of cities as result of people living and working in them.
What is Urbanization?
This president was known as the "Trust Buster" for breaking up powerful monopolies and was in command of a military group called the Rough Riders
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This organization, founded in 1909, worked to end racial discrimination and challenge segregation laws.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
This man wrote a fictional book called "The Octopus" that exposed railroads in California as monopolies taking advantage of people.
Who is Frank Norris?
Voters can remove an elected official from office through a referendum before that official's term of office has ended.
What is Recall
This group of immigrants experienced the most restrictive laws and discrimination.
What are Chinese Immigrants?
This president advocated for a policy known as Moral or Mission Diplomacy, which sought to support governments that aligned with democratic principles and human rights
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This Harvard graduate and co-founder of the NAACP demanded immediate equality for African Americans.
W.E.B.Du Bois
Who is Thomas Nast?
Allows citizens in a district to vote for a measure on a ballot
What is a Referendum?
Crowded urban dwellings where most immigrants lived in during the Gilded Age.
What is a Tenement?
This Central American project, supported by Roosevelt, connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
This African American leader believed equality should be achieved through education and economic success, not confrontation.
Who is Booker T. Washington?