Organizations and Labor
What was the IWW?
Industrial Workers of the World
Who was one of the first muckrakers?
Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Ray Baker
Who broke up the most trusts?
What was the 19th amendment?
Women's right to vote
What was the tax people needed to pay to vote called?
The poll tax
What was the WCTU, what did they accomplish?
Women's Christian Temperance Union, they got the Prohibition passed
What did Jacob Riis do?
He took pictures for How the Other Half Lives
What is Trust Busting?
Breaking apart a monopoly into smaller companies
What was the Clayton Antitrust Act?
An act that promoted fair competition between businesses
What case decided the "Separate but Equal" doctrine?
Plessy v. Ferguson
What did the Women's Suffrage movement do to gain the right to vote
Protests, pageants, hunger strikes, etc.
Why was the book Tweed Days in St. Louis called that
What is Boss Tweed was a big name
What was the thing all the Progressive Presidents did?
Trust Busting
This amendment prohibited the use and distribution of alcohol
What is the 18th amendment?
Who was Jim Crow?
Jim Crow was a racist caricature made to mock Black Americans by Thomas Rice
What was the purpose of the NAACP
To bring political and economic equality to Black Americans
Who wrote The Jungle?
Upton Sinclair
What president passed the Meat Inspection Act? Why did he do it?
Theodore Roosevelt; because of the book The Jungle
Explain the 16th amendment
What is the federal income tax?
How did White people avoid taking the literacy test?
The Grandfather Clause
What happened at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory? Explain.
A fire broke out and the tragedy called attention to the awful health and safety standards in factories that workers had to endure
What did Ida B. Wells call attention to
She called attention to the unlawful lynching of Black Americans
Explain what happened during the election of 1912
Roosevelt and Taft split the republican vote and allowed Woodrow Wilson to win the election
The 17th amendment claims
What is the people vote for their senators?
Why were the Jim Crow laws created?
Undo what the Reconstruction Era did for Black Americans