Vocabulary
Who were journalist who investigated social conditions and political corruption
Muckraker
Muckraker who took photographs of tenement housing, exposing the horrific living conditions.
Jacob Riis
Factory fire in NYC, which led to the deaths of 146 workers. Resulted in a change in safety laws such as: fire alarms, emergency exits, and safer conditions.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs.
Pure Food and Drug Administration
Roosevelt's Foreign Policy: Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
The type of progressives that were "Real" progressives, muckrakers
Grassroot Progressives
African American leader that expressed his hopes for generations. His idea- African Americans should build economic stability (vocational) before seeking political and social equality.
Booker T. Washington
Strike in a Carnegie Steel plant, which led to a bloody confrontation between the strikers and Pinkerton's army.
Homestead Steel Strike
Amendment that allows Congress to collect income tax.
16th Amendment
Taft's Foreign Policy: using financial influence to extend the country's influence
Dollar Diplomacy
Type of progressives that worked for city or state governments.
Political progressives
African American leader that expressed his hopes for generations. His idea- African Americans should strive for intellectual development, for it is essential in challenging racial inequality.
W.E.B DuBois
Pullman Strike
Amendment that created a direct election of the state's senators. 2 senators form each state, elected by the people.
17th Amendment
Clayton Antitrust Act
Social Darwinism
Upton Sinclair
A series of bad banking decisions, withdraws, and trouble with the New York stock exchange. This exposed the country's fragile banking system.
Panic of 1907
In response to the Panic of 1907. Created a national currency and established economic stability.
Federal Reserve Act of 1913
The "Perfect 36" for women's right to vote referred to what state?
Tennessee
Ideology in response to the challenges brought on by industrialization and urbanization that brought reform: preached salvation through service to the poor.
Social Gospel Movement
Who was an investigative journalist who brought down the Standard Oil Monopoly.
Ida Tarbell
33 suffragists that were arrested for picketing the White House were beaten and tortured in the prison. This was called the what?
Night of Terror
18th Amendment
First women's rights convention in the United States.
Seneca Falls Convention (1848)