Muckrakers & Media
This author wrote "The Jungle" and exposed the meatpacking industry
Who is Upton Sinclair
This movement aimed to ban alcohol
What is the Temperance Movement?
This president created the Square Deal.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
These groups controlled large parts of industries and reduced competition.
What are monopolies?
This muckraker exposed the unfair practices of Standard Oil.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This reform effort focused on improving working conditions after tragedies like factory fires.
What are labor reforms?
This president supported the New Freedom program.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This amendment started Prohibition.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Workers wanted these three improvements in factories.
What are better wages, hours, and working conditions?
This photographer revealed the harsh conditions of urban slums in How the Other Half Lives.
Who is Jacob Riis
This 1911 disaster in New York City led to major workplace safety reforms
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
This president broke more trusts than Roosevelt but was less popular.
Who is William Howard Taft?
This law prohibited the sale of impure or falsely labeled food and drugs.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This term describes the belief that government should not interfere in the economy, which Progressives opposed.
What is laissez-faire economics?
Muckrakers were important because their goal and purpose was this, leading to reform.
What is exposing corruption and social problems to the public?
These places, like Hull House, helped immigrants with services.
What are settlement houses?
This act under Wilson created a central banking system.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
This earlier law was used more during the Progressive Era to break up monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This political machine symbolized corruption in cities like New York.
What is Tammany Hall?
The publication of The Jungle helped lead to these two laws in 1906.
What are the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act?
This group pushed heavily for prohibition.
What is the Woman's Christian Temperance Union?
This Roosevelt policy aimed to balance the needs of workers, consumers, and businesses.
What is the Square Deal?
This amendment established direct election of senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This system is when a company controls everything in an industry, from getting raw materials to making and selling the product, giving them a lot of power.
What is vertical integration?