Progressive Legislation
Progressive Leaders
Muckrakers
Populism
100

This law made it illegal to sell contaminated foods and mislabeled drugs.

Pure Food and Drug Act

100

This president focused on creating policies that gave every man a “square deal”

Theodore Roosevelt

100

This book by Upton Sinclair revealed unsanitary conditions in Chicago’s meatpacking plants

The Jungle

100

These people faced problems like drought and low crop prices post reconstruction

Farmers

200

The amendment gave women the right to vote

The 19th Amendment

200

This civil rights leader worked for gradual progress through “self-improvement” for African Americans

Booker T. Washington

200

Muckrakers practiced this type of journalism to expose corruption  

Investigative

200

This was the idea that the U.S. currency should be backed by both gold and silver 

bimetallism

300

This was the 26th president’s domestic policy based on equal treatment for all

The Square Deal

300

This civil rights leader believed in the idea of the “talented 10th” to improve conditions for African Americans

W.E.B. DuBois

300

The horrors of life in the south for African Americans was exposed by this muckraker’s journalism

Ida B. Wells

300

Farmers wanted to increase the money supply in the country to cause this to happen so that crop prices would rise

inflation

400

Teddy Roosevelt was the first president to use this act to break up trusts/monopolies

The Sherman Antitrust Act

400

This female reformer focused on social welfare reform through the founding of settlement houses

Jane Addams

400

This female muckraker investigated John D. Rockefeller.

Ida Tarbell

400

He was the populist party candidate in the 1896 presidential election

William Jennings Bryan

500

This amendment allowed for the direct election of U.S. Senators

17th Amendment

500

The Anti-Saloon League and the WCTU believed in this idea that was passed by the 18th amendment

Prohibition

500

This Muckraker used photojournalism to expose the conditions of immigrants living tenement houses

Jacob Riis

500

This movement began out of frustration from farmers due to drought and falling crop prices 

The Grange Movement

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