a group of intellectuals and writers who exposed social ills publicly
Who are the Muckrackers?
100
The most important reform that Progressives wanted to reform the political system to make it more democractic.
What is Democracy?
100
This man was assasinated making Teddy Roosevelt, VP at the time, become President.
Who is President William McKinley?
100
The heaviest President in history and successor of Roosevelt.
Who is William Howard Taft?
100
A middle-class movement that fanned out to address social ills.
What is the social justice movement?
200
An affordable magazine that included the writing that exposed social ills. Founded in 1893.
What is McClure's Magazine?
200
Nomination of candidates came from the vote of party membership, not just the pinions of party leadership. The first was held in South Carolina in 1896.
What are direct primaries?
200
A term used to describe Roosevelt's own over-the-top personality to generate public support for programs.
What is Bully Pulpit?
200
This affair would cause the largest political scandal of the day and would permanently remove the Progressives from the Republican party.
What is the Ballinger and Pinchot Controversy?
200
Sometimes also called a community or neighborhood center—is a neighborhood-based organization that provides services and activities designed to identify and reinforce the strengths of individuals, families and communities.
What are settlement houses?
300
A famous female investigative journalist who wrote about the problems in Rockefeller's Standard Oil Co.
Who is Ida M. Tarbell?
300
Lassez-faire approach, a socialist approach of public ownership of business, and/or a focus on regulation, rather then dissolution of big business.
What are the three choices for regulation of business?
300
In a labor dispute between mine workers and their employer Roosevelt used this term to not favor either side, but help resolve the problem.
What is a Square Deal?
300
Turned over for sale over a million acres of public land that Pinchot set aside for government forests.
Who is Richard A. Ballinger?
300
Roosevelt's new Progressive Party that had a platform based on his New Nationalism and strong government.
What is the Bull Moose Party?
400
Growing literacy of Americans and the cheapness of muckrackers' publications brought information to a greater audience
What are the factors that allowed for articles to reach a large % of Americans?
400
After this event cities began to pass stricter building codes and factory inspection acts.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in 1911?
400
In 1906, this allowed the Interstate Commerce Commission to inspect railroad finances and made their orders binding on the industry.
What is Hepburn Act?
400
Teddy Roosevelt's new progressive plan to reunite the Republican party. it supported things like antariff revision, stiffer regulation of businesses, and a graduated income tax.
What is New Nationalism?
400
This woman was the leader of the National Consumers' league, a progressive crusade that promoted state laws to regulate labor.
Who is Florence Kelley?
500
A diverse movement to which no person agreed to all of it ideas. Included greater democracy, honest government, regulation of business, and a renewed commitment to public service.
What is the Progressive Movement?
500
This was enacted to carry out the 18th Amendment by defining what an intoxicating liquor was.
What is the Volstead Act?
500
Upton Sinclair's novel on the meat packing industry in Chicago.
What is "The Jungle?"
500
This man won the presidential election of 1912 by only receiving 42% of the vote.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
500
These two women founded the National Woman Suffrage Association to promote the addition of a woman's suffrage amendment to the Constitution.
Who are Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?