Crusading journalists who began to direct public attention toward social, economic, and political injustices.
What are Muckrackers?
100
Amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote.
What is 19th amendment?
100
Had a "wild man" reputation based on his early political career.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
100
Being easily elected as the president in 1908, four years he left office as the most defeated president on the 20th century.
Who is William Howard Taft?
100
Unlike Roosevelt, he sided with those who believed that bigness was both unjust and inefficient, and that the proper response to monopoly was to destroy it.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
200
Embraced a belief that middle-class Americans had a responsibility to impart their own values to immigrants and to teach them how to create middle-class lifestyles.
What are settlement houses (Jane Addams and Hull House)?
200
Book written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman which argued the the traditional definition of gender roles was exploitive and obsolete.
What is "Women and Economics"?
200
Act that restricted the sale of dangerous or ineffective medicines.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
200
Reduced tariff rates scarcely at all and in some areas raised them.
What is the Payne-Aldrich Tariff?
200
In his campaign, Woodrow Wilson presented a progressive program that comprised of campaign speeches and promises.
What is the "New Freedom"?
300
Called for strict, scientific standards for admission to the practice of medicine, with doctors themselves serving as protectors of the standards.
What is American Medical Association?
300
Founded in 1903 by female union members and upper-class reformers, it was committed to persuading women to join unions.
What is Women's Trade Union League?
300
Act that provided federal funds for the construction of dams, reservoirs, and canals in the west.
What is the Newlands Act?
300
The charge by an Interior Department Investigator with having once connived to turn over valuable public coal lands Alaska for private syndicate for personal profit.
What is the Ballinger-Pinchot Dispute?
300
Provided cuts substantial enough to introduce real competition into American markets and thus to help break the power of trusts.
What is the Underwood-Simmons Tariff?
400
A network of agricultural organizations designed to spread scientific farming methods.
What is the National Farm Bureau Federation?
400
Formed in 1892, coordinated the activities of local organizations (women's clubs)
What is General Federation of Women's Clubs?
400
Part of the "square deal", one of them being an early effort to regulate the railroad industry.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
400
1910, Roosevelt inclined a set of principles that made clear he had moved a considerable way from the cautious conservationism from the first years of his presidency.
What is the "New Nationalism"?
400
Created twelve regional banks, each to be owned and controlled be the individual banks of the district.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
500
90 percent of professional women were in the profession.
What is a teacher?
500
One of its predominant leaders justified "suffrage" in a safer, less threatening way.
What is National American Woman Suffrage Association?
500
Established in 1903, was to investigate the activities of corporations and publicize the results.
What is the new Department of Commerce?
500
Roosevelt launched this party and nominated himself as its presidential candidate (election of 1912).
What is the Progressive party?
500
First federal law regulating child labor. Prohibited shipment of goods produced by the underage children across state lines.