Muckrakers & Exposés
Amendments & Laws
Civil Rights & Reformers
Political Reforms
Temperance & Social Issues
Conservation & Gov't Action
100
This 1906 novel by Upton Sinclair exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.
What is The Jungle?
100
This 1906 law led the U.S. government to enforce health regulations on the food industry.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
100
This Supreme Court case allowed for the segregation shown in 'White Waiting Room' photographs.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
100
This Progressive reform allows citizens to remove an elected official from office before the end of their term.
What is a recall?
100
Concerns about saloons and the harm they caused to families helped Progressives align with this movement.
What is the temperance movement?
100
The concept of a national park is an American innovation aimed at protecting these.
What are natural resources?
200
This investigative journalist wrote 'Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases' to expose violence against African Americans.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
200
This amendment granted women the right to vote and participate in government decision-making.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
200
W.E.B. DuBois helped establish this organization that provided legal aid to African Americans.
What is the NAACP?
200
This reform allows citizens to propose a new law by gathering signatures on a petition.
What is an initiative?
200
In this political cartoon, women standing outside saloons were primarily working toward this goal.
What is banning alcohol (Prohibition)?
200
This 1916 law established the National Park Service, a federal bureau responsible for preserving parks and monuments.
What is the Organic Act?
300
These Progressive Era journalists worked to expose unfair government and business practices.
What are muckrakers?
300
Women believed this amendment would help solve problems of domestic abuse and poverty.
What is the Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition)?
300
This reformer established settlement houses and programs for new immigrants and the poor.
Who is Jane Addams?
300
This reform allows citizens to vote directly on a proposed law or legislation.
What is a referendum?
300
After alcohol was banned, illegal bars known by this name sold alcohol and contributed to the rise of gangs.
What are speakeasies?
300
This federal department was created to help eliminate unfair practices in the workplace.
What is the Department of Labor?
400
Sinclair's book prompted the federal government to take greater responsibility for this area of public welfare.
What is public health (or food safety)?
400
This act was passed to address the 'spoils system' criticized by Theodore Roosevelt.
What is the Pendleton Act?
400
The NAACP fought for African American rights using primarily these methods.
What are legal means (or the courts)?
400
In the 1912 presidential election, this third-party candidate drew voters away from the other major candidates.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt (Bull Moose Party)?
400
A major unintended consequence of Prohibition was that gangs increased in both of these.
What are wealth and power?
400
Yellowstone, designated in 1872, holds this distinction among national parks.
What is the first national park in the world?
500
One major impact of The Jungle was informing consumers about poor quality standards in this industry.
What is the meatpacking industry?
500
This law was a response to photographs showing young children working in factories and mills.
What is the Child Labor Act?
500
Passage of Jim Crow laws came after the ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments and before this Supreme Court ruling.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
500
This system of taxation applies higher rates to those who earn more money.
What is a graduated (progressive) income tax?
500
Photographs of women holding 'Votes for Women' signs show activism that led to this constitutional change.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
500
The conservation movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries grew out of efforts to protect these spaces.
What are natural resources / wilderness?
600
Muckrakers of the early 1900s are similar to modern ones because they work to expose these types of practices.
What are unfair government and business practices?
600
This amendment allowed for the direct election of U.S. senators by the people.
What is the Seventeenth Amendment?
600
This organization was co-founded by W.E.B. DuBois and used legal strategies to work for equality.
What is the NAACP?
600
Initiative, referendum, recall, women's suffrage, and direct election of senators all expanded this process.
What is the democratic process?
600
Women believed Prohibition would help reduce these two social problems in the home.
What are domestic abuse and poverty?
600
One key component of the Populist Party's platform was regulating these fees charged by transportation companies.
What are railroad shipping fees?