Muckrakers
this muckraker exposed the harsh conditions in meatpacking plants in his book "The Jungle"
Who is upton Sinclair?
This leader helped secure women the right to vote and led the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) established this doctrine.
What is “separate but equal”?
This amendment allowed citizens to directly elect U.S. senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
President known for setting aside millions of acres for national parks and forests.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Journalist who revealed corruption in city governments, especially political machines.
Who is Lincoln Steffens?
Reformers like Jane Addams supported immigrants and the poor through these community centers.
What are settlement houses?
The Plessy case led to the expansion of these segregation laws across the South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
Laws that banned child labor and limited working hours were part of this movement.
What is the labor reform movement?
Conservation focused on managing and protecting these two major natural resources.
What are land and forests?
She exposed the terrible living conditions in urban tenements in How the Other Half Lives.
Who is Jacob Riis?
Women played a major role in the Temperance Movement, which pushed for this amendment.
What is the 18th Amendment?
He was one of the founding members of the NAACP and author of The Souls of Black Folk.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This amendment created a national income tax to fund government programs.
What is the 16th Amendment?
This government agency was created in 1905 to manage national forests.
What is the U.S. Forest Service?
Muckrakers used this form of media to reach millions and expose social problems.
What are magazines?
She became a major leader in birth control advocacy during the Progressive Era
Who is Margaret Sanger?
The NAACP primarily fought discrimination using this method.
What is legal action / court challenges?
The initiative, referendum, and recall all increased this for voters.
What is political power / direct democracy?
John Muir famously fought to protect this iconic California park.
What is Yosemite?
Ida Tarbell targeted this powerful business figure to expose unfair monopolistic practices.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Many women joined this reform movement to protect consumers and support safer products and foods.
What is the Consumer Protection Movement?
This 1890s event sparked the Plessy v. Ferguson case.
What is Homer Plessy refusing to leave a whites-only train car?
This president pushed for “Square Deal” reforms such as trust-busting and consumer protections.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Roosevelt’s conservation policy split natural resource use into these two goals: protection and ________.
What is sustainable development / wise use?