muckrakers
social reformers
amendments
political reforms
Miscellaneous
100
The photographer who showed American the terrible living conditions in the cities in How the Other Half Lives
What is Jacob Riis
100
A famous settlement house in NYC started by Jane Addams
What is The Hull House
100
Started Prohibition
What is the 18th amendment?
100
Allows voters to make laws to be later voted on by state legislatures
What is the initiative?
100
The Progressive environmentalist President
What is Teddy Roosevelt?
200
Written by Upton Sinclair show terrible working conditions; however, it illustrated unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry
What is The Jungle?
200
Advocated by Margaret Sanger; she was jailed as a "public nuisance"
What is birth control?
200
Gave women suffrage nationally
What is the 19th amendment
200
Allows voters to remove state officials before their term is done.
What is the recall?
200
Strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?
300
Took on John D. Rockefeller in a series of articles entitled The History of the Standard Oil Company
Who is Ida Tarbell?
300
The civil rights advocate who told blacks to concentrate on getting an education and earning money. True civil equality would come "in time."
Who is Booker T Washington?
300
the 16th amendment
What is created the national income tax.
300
Created by Woodrow Wilson's administration to regulate businesses and watch for false advertising and inaccurate labeling
What is the FTC - Federal Trade Commission
300
Passed the same year as Upton SInclair's book was written. It was urged on by Teddy Roosevelt.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
400
Frank Norris wrote this to show the extreme power of the railroads.
What is The Octopus?
400
Encouraged Illinois to ban child labor
Who is Florence Kelley?
400
The 17th amendment
What is the amendment that made for direct election of Senators?
400
Allows state voters to directly give approval of a bill or not
What is the referendum
400
the organization started by W.E.B. DuBois that worked to achieve equal civil rights for African Americans
What is the NAACP?
500
What did the Shame of the Cities expose to the public
What is the corruption in the city gov'ts
500
Told African Americans to fight for immediate civil, political, and social equality.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
500
Outlined citizenship rights and defined citizenship
What is the 14th amendment?
500
The two main jobs of the Federal Reserve Board
What is to regulate interest rates and the amount of money in circulation
500
The act that gave 160 acres free to farmers who would farm the land for 5 years in the midwest.
What is the Homestead Act?
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