Suffrage and Temperance
This 1920 amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Illegal monopolies were broken up through this practice, enabled by the 1890 Sherman Act.
What is trustbusting?
This muckraker photographed overcrowded tenements in *How the Other Half Lives*.
Who is Jacob Riis?
These organizations negotiated for better wages, hours, and safety on behalf of workers.
What are labor unions?
Alice Paul's more militant organization that used parades, hunger strikes, and picketing.
What is the NWP? (or National Woman's Party)
These political organizations traded jobs and services for votes, exposed by reformers.
What are political machines?
This author's novel *The Jungle* exposed the meatpacking industry, leading to the Pure Food and Drug Act.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This tactic — refusing to work until demands are met — was a key tool of labor movements.
What are strikes?
Overcrowded, unsanitary urban apartment buildings targeted by Tenement Laws.
What are tenements?
The 18th Amendment banned alcohol; this 1933 amendment repealed it.
What is the 21st Amendment?
This 1882 law banned Chinese immigration, reflecting rising nativism.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This investigative journalist exposed Standard Oil's monopolistic practices.
Who is Ida B. Tarbell?
Child labor, 12+ hour days, dangerous machinery, no workers' compensation — these defined conditions reformers called this.
What are unsafe working conditions? (or sweatshop working conditions, or exploitative labor conditions)
This agency, created in 1906, still regulates food and drug safety today.
What is the FDA? (or Food and Drug Administration)
This organization linked alcohol abuse to social problems and pushed for temperance.
What is the WCTU? (or Women's Christian Temperance Union)
This 17th Amendment reform, ratified in 1913, shifted election of senators from state legislatures to the people — a blow to political machines.
What is the direct election of senators? (or 17th Amendment)
This cartoonist exposed corruption of Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed.
Who is Thomas Nast?
This tactic used by labor unions is a collective refusal to buy, use, or deal with a person, business, or country to push them to change their policies
What is a boycott?
Conservation reforms under Teddy Roosevelt created these protected federal areas.
What are national parks and federal lands?
This law granted all women the right to vote across all 50 states?
What is the 19th Amendment?
This Supreme Court Case confirmed that the 14th Ammendment gives citizenship to all people born within the US.
What is Wong Kim Ark v United States?
Lincoln Steffens exposed corruption in city governments in this 1904 book.
What is "The Shame of the Cities"?
This 1911 NYC garment factory fire, which killed 146 workers, galvanized workplace safety reforms.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
These laws forced tenement owners to put in indoor bathrooms, windows, and occupant limit to their buildings.
What are Tenement Laws?