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This person revealed gruesome practices of the meatpacking industry in his book.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
banned the sale of alcohol in the U.S.
What is the 18th Amendment?
The term used for the right to vote
What is suffrage?
These were formed mostly to secure better working conditions and wages for workers.
What are labor unions?
As a leader of the Temperance Movement, this woman created a sensation by raiding saloons and smashing barrels of beer with a hatchet.
Who is Carrie Nation?
Photographer who took photos of tenements in overcrowded cities to show how poor the conditions were; published his photographs in the book "How the Other Half Lives".
Who is Jacob Riis?
gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
A refusal to buy or use goods and services as a form of protest
What is boycott?
These people worked to solve problems caused by the rapid industrial urban growth of the late 1800s
Who are progressives?
He demanded equal rights, including the right to vote immediately.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
Political cartoonist who used pictures to expose corruption in American politics. He became famous for exposing the corruption in New York City and removing Boss Tweed and his peers from power.
Who is Thomas Nast?
gave voters the power to vote for their Senators
What is the 17th Amendment?
protection of nature and its resources
What is conservation?
journalists who exposed corruption and other problems in society
Who are Muckrakers?
He thought African Americans should learn skills in order to become economically secure before fighting for equal rights.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
African-American journalist who led the fight against lynching
Who is Ida B. Wells?
stopped the manufacture, sale, or transportation of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs
What is laissez faire?
striking workers looking for improved pay and working conditions will do this
What is picketing?
True or false:
In the fight for minority groups overall, the Progressive Movement failed to improve the conditions for most minority groups.
What is true?
Progressive President who established national parks, helped to break up "bad trusts", sent inspectors to meat packing plants, and supported workers in the Anthracite coal strike.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
law passed in 1890 that made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained trade
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
to abstain (prevent oneself) from drinking alcohol
What is temperance?
A political organization that uses corruption to buy and cheat votes
What is a political machine?
True or False:
You will do awesome on Thursday's test?
What is TRUE!