He wrote the Jungle, exposing problems with the meat packing industry.
Upton Sinclair
100
This amendment prohibited the sale of alcoholic beverages
The 18th amendment
100
The right to vote
Suffrage
100
What is Prohibition?
The ban on alcoholic beverages.
200
A former slave, he founded Tuskegee Institute
Booker T Washington
200
She wrote A History of Standard Oil, attacking the oil industry
Ida Tarbell
200
this amendment gave women the right to vote
The19th amendment
200
An investigative journalist who wrote about scandals and corruption in politics.
Muchracker
200
Sherman Anti-trust Act accomplished what?
Ceased monopolies and trusts
300
4,000 factory workers started a strike after their wages were reduced. A railroad strike that began in Chicago. Hint: Starts with P
The Pullman Srike
300
What is the collective name for journalist who expose society's problems
Muckrakers
300
this amendment created an income tax
the 16th Amendment
300
The theory that the weak diminishes and the strong will grow in power and cultural influence over the weak.
Social Darwinism
300
On June 30th, 1906 President Roosevelt signed the FDA. What does FDA mean?
The Food and Drug Act
400
A homemade bomb was thrown during this srike.
Haymarket Square Riot
400
He photographed how poor people lived in tenements and exposed health risks living in those areas. He also wrote an article called How the Other Half Lives.
Jacob Riis
400
This amendment called for the direct election of senators
The 17th amendment
400
A workers' union strike against Carnegie's business empire.
Homestead Strike
400
Name at least 4 things that changed for the better during the Progressive Movement?
Civil Rights
Conservation
Government Reform
Health
Women rights
Trust Busting
FDA
500
Many railroad strikes happened across the country which stopped trains from moving. It continued for 45 days. What year did the Great Railroad Strike occur?
1877
500
Ida Tarbell's book was targeted at him, the man who was often hated because he became a tycoon of oil industry
John D Rockefeller
500
this supreme court case said separate but equal was legal and it was the reason for separated buses, water fountains, etc
Plessy V Ferguson
500
The first federal law that prohibits monopolies or trusts.