1906 law that allowed federal inspection of food and medicine and banned the interstate shipment and sale of impure food and the mislabeling of food and drugs
Pure Food and Drug Act
100
Known as a smart, energetic, and opinionated President who was the youngest president of his time
Teddy Roosevelt
100
California naturalist who found Yosemite National Park
John Muir
100
Novel detailed the unsanitary conditions of meat stockyards in Chicago
Upton Sinclair
200
Program of reforms to keep the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of small business owners and the poor
Square Deal
200
Writer who uncovers and exposes misconduct in politics or business
Muckraker
200
Founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association who illegally voted
Susan B. Anthony
200
Country's first female superintendent
Carrie Chapman Catt
200
Democratic candidate in the 1912 election
Woodrow Wilson
300
Movement aimed at stopping alcohol abuse and the problems created by it
Temperance
300
1913 law that placed national banks under the control of a Federal Reserve Board, which runs regional banks that hold the reserve funds from commercial banks, sets interest rates, and supervises commercial banks.
Federal Reserve Act
300
Controversial nurse who introduced the idea of family planning
Margaret Sanger
300
Best known women's suffrage leader during the Progressive Era
Alice Paul
300
Novel detailed how John Rockefeller destroyed his competition and charged higher prices
Ida Tarbell
400
Group organized in 1899 to investigate the conditions under which goods were made and sold and to promote safe working conditions and a minimum wage
National Consumers League
400
Process that allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by lefislature
Referendum
400
Did not believe in gradual progress believed African Americans should take what they wanted right now
W.E.B. Du Bois
400
Novel detailed the life of poor immigrants in the urban slum tenement buildings
Jacob Riis
400
One of the founders of the National Consumers League and also helped form the Trade Union League
Florence Kelley
500
Program to place government controls on corporations in order to benefit small businesses.
New Freedom
500
Movement that responded to the pressures of industrialization and urbanization by promoting reforms
Progressivism
500
Magazine editor known for uncovering social problems, wrote The Shame of the Cities
Lincoln Steffens
500
Leader of the Division of Forestry in the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Gifford Pinchot
500
Believed African Americans should know their place in society