Names
This President was known as the “Trustbuster”
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Reform Movement that focused on urban problems
What is Progressivism?
Name one objective the progressives aimed at to reform the workplace.
What is Limiting Working Hours?
What are Fair Wages?
Amendment that forbade the manufacture, selling, and importation of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
The Democratic Candidate of 1912 who eventually became President
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This author wrote “The Jungle” about a meat packing plant in Chicago.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Process of returning damaged land to productive status. T.R. was famous for this.
What is Reclamation?
Reformers considered this the cause of social problems.
What is Alcohol?
Provided aid to federal workers injured on the job.
What is Workman's Compensation Act?
President Roosevelt went after this business when he first took office.
What is the Railroad Industry?
This author attacked the Standard Oil Company in McClure’s Magazine.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
Journalists who wrote about the corruption in big business and politics.
Who are Muckrakers?
Roosevelt’s campaign motto in the 1904 election.
What is The Square Deal?
Law which forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of food containing harmful ingredients.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Theodore Roosevelt represented this party in the election of 1912.
What is the Progressive Party?
What is the Bull Moose Party?
The Governor of Wisconsin who devoted his life to regulating big business. He eventually became a U.S. Senator.
Who is Robert LaFollette?
Nominating election in which voters choose the candidates who will later run in the general election.
What is the Direct Primary?
This woman led the fight for Women’s Suffrage which finally was amended in 1920.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
Consumer-protection law that examined animal food products
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
This person represented the Socialist Party in the election of 1912.
Who is Eugene Debs?
She founded a settlement house that became a model for Social Reform.
Who is Jane Addams?
Method used by T.R. to settle the Pennsylvania coal mine dispute.
What is Arbitration?
This reform was neglected by progressives—an issue that wouldn’t be addressed for another 50 years.
What is Civil Rights?
What is Equal Rights for Blacks?
Law that authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to set railroad rates.
What is the Hepburn Act?
He was a scholar and political activist who helped found the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?