People
Democratic candidate for president in 1896 under the banner of "free silver coinage" which won him support of the Populist Party.
William Jennings Bryan
A 19th century reform movement based on the belief that Christians have a responsibility to help improve working conditions and alleviate poverty
Social Gospel Movement
a 1913 law that set up a system of banks and gave government the power to control the money supply
Federal Reserve Act
an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer and lecturer known for her work on Standard Oil
Ida Tarbell
The constitutional amendment adopted in 1920 that guarantees women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
Muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago.
Upton Sinclair
A group of investigative reporters who pointed out the abuses of big business and the corruption of urban politics; included Frank Norris (The Octopus) Ida Tarbell (A history of the standard oil company) Lincoln Steffens (the shame of the cities) and Upton Sinclair (The Jungle)
Muckrakers
A government agency established in 1914 to prevent unfair business practices and help maintain a competitive economy.
Federal Trade Commission
an American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the main leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (Not Susan B. Anthony)
Alice Paul
Amendment that established a graduated income tax
16th Amendment
1860-1935. Founder of Settlement House Movement(example; Hull House). First American Woman to earn Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
Jane Addams
1913 constitutional amendment allowing American voters to directly elect US senators. Pushed by the Populist Movement to give people more say in government.
17th Amendment
A movement for social and educational organization through which farmers attempted to combat the power of the railroads in the late 19th centur
The Grange Movement
led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and is often identified as one of the richest people (and richest Americans) in history
Andrew Carnegie
prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages
18th Amendment
1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910
W.E.B. DuBois
President Theodore Roosevelt's plan for reform; all Americans are entitled to an equal opportunity to succeed
The Square Deal
1887 - Passed laws regulating railroad rates
Interstate Commerce Act
known for his ownership of Standard Oil and was one of the wealthiest Americans of the 20th century
John D. Rockefeller
a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population by excluding (through a variety of morally criticized means) certain genetic groups judged to be inferior, and promoting other genetic groups judged to be superior
Eugenics
26th president, known for: conservationism, trust-busting, Hepburn Act, safe food regulations, "Square Deal," Panama Canal, Great White Fleet, Nobel Peace Prize for negotiation of peace in Russo-Japanese War
Theodore Roosevelt
28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership, created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act, progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women's suffrage (reluctantly), Treaty of Versailles, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations (but failed to win U.S. ratification), won Nobel Peace Prize
Woodrow Wilson
A law that allows the government to regulate or remove drugs and food from the national market. Like the Meat Inspection Act, this law is passed in 1906 after muckrakers exposed evils in American society.
The Pure Food and Drug Act
Ms. Tara will accept Food and Drug Act
an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation in the United States of America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
J.P. Morgan
The practice of donating money to the less fortunate in an effort to improve society
philanthropy