Progressive Presidents
The right that enables voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials from office
Recall
A tax that someone pays, but the tax burden falls on someone else.
Indirect Tax
A fire at this factory which killed over 140 people spurred labor and workplace reforms.
Triangle Shirtwaist
Author of The Jungle a book which chronicled the unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.
Upton Sinclair
Nickname President Roosevelt earned from his interactions with Trusts.
The Trustbuster
Part of the government which was given the authority to inspect business operations to ensure that products were safe before they were shipped to the public.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Women's suffrage organization based out of New York City and founded by Susan B. Anthony.
National Woman Suffrage Association
Man who President Roosevelt appointed as the head of the United States Forest Service
Gifford Pinchot
This act authorized the use of federal funds from public land sales to pay for irrigation and land development projects.
Newlands Reclamation Act
Organization which was established at the behest of President Wilson to monitor American business.
Federal Trade Commission
Women's suffrage movement which was formed out of two previous groups which desired to pool their resources.
National American Woman Suffrage Association
ADL stands for this.
Anti-Defamation League
The contender for the Presidential Election of 1912 who garnered the fewest votes.
William Howard Taft
A tax based on the net income of a person or business.
Income Tax
A journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in a society.
Muckraker
Woman who at the Seneca Falls women's right convention convinced the delegates present that women should focus on suffrage.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Man who president Taft, in a move which angered Progressives, appointed as Secretary of the Interior.
Richard A. Ballinger
Railroad holding company owned by J.P. Morgan which was ruled to have broken the Sherman Anti-trust act.
Northern Securities
President Taft set up this government organization which investigated problems related to child labor.
The Children’s Bureau
Nickname of the Progressive political party which Theodore Roosevelt founded.
The Bull Moose Party