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Who were the journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government?
Muckrakers
What is the 18th Amendment?
It established the prohibition (outlawing the making, selling, and transporting of alcohol in the USA).
Who fought against lynching through journalism?
Ida B. Wells
Who fought to advance African Americans in society and encouraged African Americans to resist systems of segregation?
W.E.B. Du Bois
poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived
tenements
What was the domestic program that was put in place to 1. conserve natural resources, 2. control corporations, 3. provide consumer protection?
Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal
What is the 19th Amendment?
The rights of USA citizens cannot be denied based on gender (women citizens can vote).
Who fought to improve the needs of those in poverty in cities/urban areas and wrote How the Other Half Lives?
Jacob Riis
Who built the Tuskegee Institute, a university for African Americans?
Booker T. Washington
What is the federal agency that is responsible for regulating food and drug products to the public?
FDA (Food and Drug Administration)
What is called to have the right to vote in political elections?
suffrage
What is trust busting?
A government tool to break up monopolies (businesses that control too much of the market and prevents competition).
Who exposed the poor labor and sanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry?
Upton Sinclair
Who wrote The Jungle, a book about the meat packing industry?
Upton Sinclair
conservation
What is it called to make changes in something (usually socially, politically, or economically) in order to improve it?
reform
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
It was the first Federal act that outlawed business practices that created monopolies.
Who fought for laws to break up monopolies, to promote conservationism, and protect consumers?
Theodore Roosevelt
Who wrote and took pictures for How the Other Half Lives, about the tenements in NYC?
Jacob Riis
What is the name of the reform movement that fought to ban alcohol in the US?
Temperance Movement
What term is used to describe seeking to advance the human condition?
progressive
What was the Progressive Movement?
A period of time in the 1900s where social activism and political reform that focused on defeating corruption, monopoly, waste, and inefficiency to improve American life.
Who wanted African Americans to become more educated so they could acquire useful labor skills to improve their economic value to society? He hoped this would end racism.
Booker T. Washington
Who created the NAACP to abolish segregation and discrimination and to gain political and civil rights for African Americans?
W.E.B. Debois
What act was passed that tried to outlaw monopolies in the US?
Sherman Anti-Trust Act