Key Reformers
She founded Hull House to help immigrants adjust to life in America.
Who is Jane Addams
This term described journalists who exposed corruption and social problems.
What are muckrakers?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This movement pushed for banning alcohol.
What is the Temperance Movement?
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle → led to this law.
What is the Meat Inspection Act (or Pure Food & Drug Act)?
This African American leader promoted vocational training and gradual equality.
Who is Booker T. Washington
His book The Jungle exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This amendment banned alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This organization worked for both Prohibition and women’s suffrage.
What is the WCTU?
Women’s suffrage movement → led to this amendment.
What is the 19th Amendment?
He co-founded the NAACP and pushed for immediate civil rights.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
She exposed the unfair practices of Standard Oil.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This amendment established a graduated income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
These reforms focused on limiting child labor and improving safety.
What are labor reforms?
Temperance movement → led to this amendment.
What is the 18th Amendment?
She exposed racial violence and fought against lynching.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
His photographs in How the Other Half Lives revealed poor tenement conditions
Who is Jacob Riis?
This amendment allowed for direct election of senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This movement focused on protecting the environment and natural resources.
What is the Conservation Movement?
Political corruption in the Senate → led to this amendment.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This president’s “Square Deal” focused on conservation, consumer protection, and controlling corporations.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
These journalists helped push for reforms in food safety, labor laws, and housing.
Who are muckrakers?
This law required labels on food and medicine to ensure safety.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This farmers’ party influenced Progressive reforms like income tax and direct election of senators.
What is the Populist Party?
Standard Oil monopoly exposed → led to use of this law.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?