Wrote an expose about the meat packing industry to try to help workers that resulted in legislation to protect consumers against contaminated meat
Who is Upton Sinclair?
100
A law that allowed the U.S. government to outlaw alcohol (aka-Prohibition)
What is the 18th Amendment?
100
Helped immigrants and the poor by establishing Hull House to provide nursing services, daycare, and English lessons
Who is Jane Addams?
100
Journalists that exposed corruption in politics and business or urban problems of the poor
What is a muckraker?
100
Political Party created by farmers of the Grange Movement that wanted more power in the hands of the common people
What is Populist Party?
200
Created the Federal Reserve; passed the 16th,17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments during the Progressive Era
Who is Woodrow Wilson ?
200
Law that allowed people to vote for Senators
What is 17th Amendment?
200
Believed that African Americans should strive to receive a college education and never allow segregation.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
200
The right to vote; enfranchise
What is suffrage?
200
Activist that played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement and created NAWSA (National American Woman's Suffrage Association)
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
300
Republican that broke up many more trusts than Theodore Roosevelt and raised tariffs instead of lowering them
Who is William Howard Taft?
300
Federal law that requires government inspectors in all meat packing plants and in areas where animals are raised for consumption
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
300
Advocated against lynching of African Americans and women's suffrage
Who is Ida Wells?
300
Advocated that religious people have a moral duty to help the poor and unfortunate
What is the social gospel?
300
The name of Theodore Roosevelt's programs during the Progressive Era
What is the "Square Deal"
400
Distinguished between "good and bad trusts". Passed legislation to protect consumers, and conservation of the environment.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
400
Required truthful labels on all foods and medicines and prevented the misrepresentation of both; foods and medications
What is The Pure Food and Drug Act?
400
Believed that African Americans would achieve equality by learning a skill or a trade to obtain a job and said to be patient about segregation
Who is Booker T. Washington?
400
Enables voters the ability to propose laws or improvements for their city or state
What is the initiative?
400
Political Party created by Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 election that split the Republican party allowing the Democrats an easy win
What is the Progressive Bull Moose Party?
500
Photojournalist that exposed problems of the urban poor and slum areas
Who is Jacob Riis?
500
Law passed that allowed the federal government to collect a tax on income to make up for revenue lost from tariffs
What is the 16th Amendment?
500
Brought about the passage of the 18th amendment with the creation of the WCTU that advocated temperance
Who is Francis Willard?
500
The enforced separation of racial groups within a country
What is segregation?
500
Sweatshop factory where a fire broke out killing many young women because there was only 1 fire escape and 1 elevator. Some jumped to their death rather than burn alive.