Muckrakers
What did Upton Sinclair help fight against?
Food Safety.
What 2 people tried to help with advoating for African American rights?
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. de Bois.
What is a Muckraker?
Journalists who exposed problems in the US.
Breaking up of Standard Oil or monopolies.
What did Lincoln Steffens help fight against?
Political Machines.
Which group of people did not get solutions for their political or social problems?
African Americans.
What is Progressivism?
Activists who tried to solve problems in the US.
What did Booker T. Washington create for African Americans?
Technical Education school.
Tenements/bad housing.
What did Women's Suffrage try to achieve?
What is a political machine?
A group of people who bought elections to gain power and money.
What did W.E.B. du Bois do to try and help African Americans?
Photo display to break stereotypes about African Americans.
What did Ida B. Wells help fight against?
Lynching.
What did the Temperance movement advocate for?
Banning alcohol in the United States.
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
19th amendment.
What is suffrage?
The right to vote.
What were the laws called that discriminated against African Americans, especially in the south?
Jim Crow Laws.
What did Alice Paul help fight for?
Women's Suffrage.
What were the solutions for Political Machines?
Private voting, voting directly for laws, 17th amendment (vote directly for senators).
What did the 17th amendment do?
Gave people the right to directly vote for senators.
What is Lynching?
Killing someone for a perceived offence outside of the law.
What was Upton Sinclair's book called?
The Jungle.