Progressive Presidents
This president used the "Square Deal" to regulate corporations, protect consumers, and conserve resources.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This movement aimed to prohibit alcohol, culminating in the 18th Amendment.
What is the Temperance Movement?
This muckraker exposed unsafe practices in the meatpacking industry through The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This organization, founded in 1913, works to combat anti-Semitism and promote justice for all.
What is the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)?
This president's New Freedom policies focused on tariffs, banking reform, and antitrust legislation.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This law, passed in 1906, ensured that meat products were inspected for safety.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
Known as a pioneer of the settlement house movement, she co-founded Hull House in Chicago.
Who is Jane Addams?
This group, co-founded by W.E.B. Du Bois, used legal challenges to fight segregation and racial discrimination.
What is the NAACP?
He passed the 16th Amendment, which introduced a federal income tax, but lost support when Progressives split from his administration.
Who is William Howard Taft?
Progressives supported these laws to protect workers from losing wages due to job-related injuries.
What are workers' compensation laws?
This muckraker exposed the unfair practices of Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This suffrage organization focused on passing a federal amendment to grant women the right to vote.
What is the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA)?
During the 1902 Coal Strike, this president personally intervened to mediate between workers and employers.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This 1915 Supreme Court case overturned grandfather clauses that restricted African Americans from voting.
What is Guinn v. United States?
This social activist and NAACP co-founder fought against lynching and for racial equality.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
Inspired by a settlement house in London, Jane Addams founded this organization to help Chicago's poor immigrant communities.
What is Hull House?