Vocabulary
What is Amendment?
What is reform?
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This President worked to get the Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act and the Hepburn Act passed.
Who is President Theodore Roosevelt?
This is the time period that focused on fixing problems caused by industrialization.
What is the Progressive Era?
To ban something.
What is prohibition?
Name 1 reform that resulted from Upton Sinclair's, The Jungle.
What is Pure Food and Drug Act or Meat Inspection Act?
Someone who exposes the wrongs and shares it with the world.
Who is a muckraker?
This President focused on stopping bad banking and wanted to stop monopolies by getting the Clayton Antitrust Act passed.
Who is President Woodrow Wilson?
Progressives believed that the problems could be solved by using this.
What is the government's power?
When the government takes money from your income/paycheck. This was part of the 16th Amendment.
What is Income Tax?
Jane Addams and other women created these to help immigrants and people in poor areas of the cities. They gave people access to education, classes, and more.
What are settlement houses?
He took pictures and exposed the poor living conditions in the tenements in the cities.
Who is Jacob Riis?
President T. Roosevelt was given this nickname as a result of his focus on breaking up bad trusts.
What is trustbuster?
Progressives wanted to fix society and one problem they wanted to fix was alcoholism. They worked to get this passed in an effort to ban alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
When citizens get to participate in the government, usually through voting. This was increased with the passage of the 19th and 17th Amendments.
What is democratic?
These were passed in an effort to stop bad big business that had formed trusts and monopolies.
What are antitrust laws/legislation? (Sherman Antitrust Act, Clayton Antitrust act)
This oil company, that was a monopoly, was exposed by Ida Tarbell. The goal was to bring an end to the unfair business practices.
What was Rockefeller's Standard Oil company?
Woodrow Wilson was very concerned about bad banking. As a result he established this.
What is urbanization?
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
Gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Jacob Riis photographed and published a book called, How the Other Half Lives to expose this problem.
What is urbanization or poor living conditions of the cities?
This act was passed by PResident T. Roosevelt in an effort to stop the unfair practices of the railroad companies.
What is the Hepburn Act?
Reform efforts such as the Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, and antitrust legislation sought to correct the wrongs of which problem caused by industrialization?
What is industrial capitalism?