People
Photographer for the New York Evening Sun, captured crowded, unsafe, tenement life
Jacob Riis
Gave congress the authority to levy an income tax
16th amendment
Writer who uncovered and exposed misconduct in politics or business
Muckraker
Leading muckraker publish collection of articles on political corruption and was managing editor at McClure's Magazine
Lincoln Steffens
Who formed the "Bull Moose" party after the Republican split in 1912?
Theodore Roosevelt
Formed the National Child Labor Committee
Florence Kelley
Declared the right to vote "shall not be denied or abridged on account of being male or female"
19th amendement
A program to restore government's trust-busting power, instituted by Roosevelt
New Nationalism
Allowed inspection of food and medicine and banned interstate shipment and sale of impure food
Pure food and drug Act
Revealed unsanitary conditions in industry and despair of immigrants working in Chicago's stockyards
Upton Sinclair
American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, lecturer. One of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era
Ida Tarbell
Banned the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol in the US
18th amendment
Emerged from the Taft/Roosevelt battle that split the Republican Party in 1912
Progressive Party
Progressive Era set out to fix what THREE major areas
Politics, business, and society
An American law that makes it a crime to misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions
Meat Inspection Act
Union organizer and socialist that described terrible conditions and difficult lives of child workers
John Spargo
The senate of the US shall be composed of two senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for 6 years
17th amendment
Worked to abolish segregation and discrimination and to achieve political and civil rights for African Americans
NAACP
Who won the the election of 1912 due to the split within the Republican Party?
Woodrow Wilson
The attempt to improve the lives of the working class, regulate the unchecked power of business, and bring about social justice
Progressive Era
Formed the National Women's Party using public protest marches.
Alice Paul
Suffragists were upset over this amendment because it allowed African American men to vote but excluded all women
15th amendment
Aimed to stop alcohol abuse and the problems created by it
Temperance movement
Newspaper editor and real estate businessman based in Boston, MA and an activist for African-American civil rights
William Monroe Trotter
Child labor restrictions/prohibition
Establishment of minimum wage