Politics
These powerful organizations were linked to political parties, who controlled local governments gaining power by doing favors in turn for votes.
What were political machines?
The nickname for reporters who exposed the corruption and problems people were facing.
Who were muckrakers?
1906 -Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle was the foundation for binding rules for sanitary meat packing and government inspection of meat products crossing state lines.
What was the Meat Inspection Act?
This amendment gave all women suffrage rights.
What was the 19th Amendment?
Mary Church Terrell was the founder and first president of this African American Women's club which fought for women's suffrage.
What was the National Association of Colored Women?
The nickname for Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive party.
What was the Bull Moose Party?
He exposed Boss Tweed through his political cartoons.
Who was Thomas Nast?
WEB DuBois was one of the founders of this organization that worked for racial equality.
What was the NAACP?
This amendment allowed for the direct election of senators?
What was 17th Amendment?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton help found this organization in 1869 to fight for womens' suffrage.
What is National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA) ?
This Democrat won the election of 1912, surprise!
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
He exposed child labor through photographs.
Who was Lewis Hine?
This Act ended the Spoils System.
What was the Pendleton Act?
This amendment gave congress the power to collect taxes based on income?
What was 16th Amendment?
This state was the first to give women the right to vote.
What was Wyoming?
This was the name of Roosevelt's plan for the U.S. in which he promised fair and equal treatment for all people.
What was the Square Deal?
He exposed the horrible living conditions of the cities in his book, How the Other Half Live.
Who was Jacob Riis?
This Act intended to end the control of trusts and monopolies.
What was the Sherman Anti-trust Act
or the
Clayton Anti-trust Act
This amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages?
What was the 18th Amendment?
This movement was aimed at outlawing alcohol.
What was the Temperance Movement?
This person was Roosevelt's successor, unhappy with him Roosevelt ran against him in the election of 1912.
Who was William Howard Taft?
She helped to expose Rockefeller's unfair and illegal business practice.
Who was Ida Tarbell?
This law helped to end child labor.
What was the Fair Labor Standards Act
or
The Keating-Owen Act
This amendment overturned the 18th Amendment.
What was the 21st Amendment?
The belief that the government should regulate major industries and the nations resources as a means of solving social problems.
What was Progressivism?