Muckrakers
This muckraker disgusted America with the truth of the meatpacking industry in his book The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This act prohibited the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under fourteen, among other businesses.
What is the Child Labor Act?
Advocate for the Temperance Movement, which sought to reduce or ban the sale of alcohol. She was known for literally disassembling bars with her hatchet.
Who is Carrie Nation?
This constitutional amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th amendment?
A very popular president who served from 1901-1909 and was known as a "trustbuster." He also established the National Park Service.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This muckraker took on lynching in the American South in multiple publications, and helped found the N.A.A.C.P.
Who is Ida B. Wells-Barnett?
This constitutional amendment banned the creation, sale, distribution, import, and export of alcohol.
What is the 18th amendment?
This activist fought to reform tenement buildings and squalid living by establishing community houses, called settlement houses, the first being Hull House in Chicago.
Who is Jane Addams?
Voters can take someone from office if they feel they are unfit, or not fulfilling the duties of their office.
What is recall?
The governor of Wisconsin who helped pass the Pendleton Act, making it so senators were directly elected by citizens.
Who is Robert M. La Follette?
This muckraker used photography to expose the horrible living conditions of people in New York City tenement buildings.
Jacob Riis
This act created a civil service commission so that government employees would be hired based on their qualifications, not based on the spoils system.
What is the Pendleton Act?
This activist was a famous deaf-blind activist and writer. An advocate for disability rights, women’s suffrage, labor rights, and worldwide peace. Co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Who is Helen Keller?
Citizens are asked to vote on a specific issue, usually something affecting a local community. This is a direct vote.
What is a referendum?
Winner of the 1908 election, and the ONLY person to have ever been president AND chief justice of the Supreme Court.
Who is William Howard Taft?
This muckraker wrote a book exposing John D. Rockefeller's unfair business practices at the Standard Oil Company.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This act was created to fill in the gaps left behind by the Sherman Antitrust Act, attempting to further prevent anticompetitive practices by businesses.
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?
This activist was a co-founder of the NAACP, and established Tuskegee University, believing in the power of education to bring black people equality.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Voters themselves can propose laws.
What is initiative?
Democratic candidate who won the 1912 election, and created the Federal Reserve (the Fed) to try to increase the money supply.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This muckraker wrote about the horrors of child labor, urging laws to be passed to set a legal working age.
Who is John Spargo?
This act prohibited child labor and limited women’s working hours. It was championed by Florence Kelley, who became the chief inspector of factories.
What is the Illinois Factory Act?
This activist was the founder of the labor union the Knights of Labor.
Who is Uriah Stephens?
You cannot be coerced into admitting how you voted in any election.
What is a secret ballot?
A political boss who infamously ran Tammany Hall, a Democratic-Republican organization that supported immigrants in exchange for votes.
Who is William "Boss" Tweed?