People
Terms for members of the press who exposed corruption
Muckraker
Extended the right to vote to women in the federal or state elections.
19th amendment
Allows voters to directly introduce bills into legislature for a vote
Initiative
Took pictures of poor immigrants in How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis
What did the Women's' Suffrage movement try to obtain
Right to vote
Author of the Jungle who exposed bad practices in the meatpacking industry
Upton Sinclair
First attempt at regulating the railroad industry
Interstate Commerce Act
Ability to to remove corrupt politicians from office through special election
Recall
President who created the National Park Service
Theodore Roosevelt
This legislation halted the sale of contaminated foods or drugs
Pure Food & Drug Act
Muckraker known for investigating in the Standard Oil Trust
Ida Tarbell
Prohibited the manufacture sale or transportation of alcohol
18th Amendment
Allows voters to pass or repeal a law by legislature
Referendum
Wrote The Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls Convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This agency was given the power to stop unfair business practices
Federal Trade Commission
Muckraker who wrote Shame of the Cities and exposed corrupt governments
Lincoln Steffens
Measure passed to prohibit abusive monopolies
Sherman Antitrust Act
Allows party voters to directly vote for candidates to represent their party
Direct Primary
Journalist that Exposed the Truth about Lynching's in America
Ida Wells
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
This man was handpicked by Theodore Roosevelt to become president and elected president in 1908
Taft
Calls for the direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislature.
17th Amendment
This makes voting anonymous and takes peer pressure or bias out of voting
Secret Ballot
Was one of the most powerful political bosses and the head of a New Your City Political Machine
William "Boss" Tweed
Believe that the government should regulate businesses, not control
Progressives