Muckrakers & Reformers
President Theodore Roosevelt coined this term that describes an investigative journalist trying to uncover the "true, terrible" conditions faced by average people in America.
Muckraker
This Progressive President only served one term.
William Howard Taft.
The 19th amendment did what?
Gave women the right to vote.
DuBois helped found this organization in 1909 to fight for civil rights.
NAACP.
A business that controls an entire industry and eliminates competition is called this.
Monopoly
Serving as Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson, this reformer was an isolationist. This meant he opposed foreign wars. He resigned from his position as Secretary of State when the US entered this war.
World War I
This President was known for how much land protected through federal regulation.
Theodore Roosevelt.
Women were the most vocal supporters of this amendment aimed at banning alcohol in the United States
18th Amendment.
This civil rights leader advocated for African Americans to focus on economic self-sufficiency and learning a trade rather than pursuing higher education. He took a less forceful political approach to achieving civil rights.
Booker T. Washington.
Gifford Pinchot favored conservation, but this Sierra Club founder wanted wilderness left completely untouched.
John Muir
This man used flash photography to illustrate this 1890 book about New York’s overcrowded tenement apartments.
Jacob Riis
The 19th amendment was ratified under this president despite his initial opposition to federal voting rights for women.
Woodrow Wilson.
Which two industries opposed the 19th amendment?
Liquor industry, textile industry.
This suffragette took a more militant approach to obtaining the right to vote. She and her supporters were arrested and went on hunger strike in prison.
Alice Paul
Created by the Pure Food & Drug Act, this agency is responsible for overseeing the regulation and inspection of food and medicine in the United States.
FDA
Sinclair said he “aimed at the public’s heart and by accident hit it in the stomach.” This 1906 law, passed alongside the Pure Food and Drug Act, required federal inspection of slaughterhouses.
Meat Inspection Act OR Pure Food & Drug Act
Theodore Roosevelt ran against William Howard Taft & Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 presidential election for this third party.
Progressive Party - "Bull Moose Party"
What did the 17th amendment do?
Provided citizens with the right to vote directly on their senators.
This civil rights leader advocated for the pursuit of higher education for African Americans in order to achieve full civil rights. He also advocated for immediate, direct, and forceful political advocacy and action.
WEB Du Bois
This muckraker took photographs of child laborers to shine a spotlight on the dangers that they faced.
Lewis Hine
Jane Addams was known for her leadership in the creation and operation of these places for immigrants, women, and the poor.
Settlement Houses (the Hull House)
President Woodrow Wilson ran on this slogan and implemented it as President. It emphasizes breaking up big businesses to help out small businesses, the creation of a centralized banking system, and an expansion of the federal government to create more competition and break up monopolies.
New Freedom.
The 16th amendment allowed Congress to do what?
Impose income tax.
This term is used to describe the time period in which discrimination, disenfranchisement, and segregation were codified in the law in the South and many other states.
Jim Crow Era.
Created in 1914, this agency was designed to stop unfair business practices before they became monopolies.
Federal Trade Commision.