Key Terms
The name Teddy Roosevelt gave to journalists and writers who dramatized the need for reform in books, papers, and reports.
Who are Muckrakers?
This Amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Teddy Roosevelt engaged is this legal activity to break up bad businesses and large corporations.
What is Trust Busting?
These laws sought to limit the right to vote for African Americans and keep them segregated.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
A civil rights activist, women's rights activist, and helped form the NACW and NAACP.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
The name of the book Upton Sinclair wrote about Chicago's meatpacking industry.
What is The Jungle?
This amendment was the result of the temperance movement.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This president won the election of 1912 due to the split in votes between Taft and Roosevelt
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Author of The Souls of Black Folk, co-founder of the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
She helped lead the early suffrage movement and sparked national news when she was arrested for voting illegally.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
What is Populism?
This Amendment allowed Congress to use a direct income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
The name of the Deal whose goals was the keep the wealthy from overpowering the poor.
What is the Square Deal?
A gathering of African American activists in Canada that started new ideas about social equality.
What is the Niagara Movement?
She opened a Settlement House named Hull House and made significant contributions to the urban poor.
Who is Jane Addams?
This woman-ran organization placed labels on products that were made in a safe, fair, and healthy workplace.
What is the National Consumer's League (NCL)?
Signed by Teddy Roosevelt, it was the first attempt to regulate and ensure the quality/cleanliness/safety of two things many Americans consume.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
A policy program created by Wilson to give the gov't power over corporations.
What is New Freedom?
It helped poorer workers to buy clothes, textbooks, and provide education.
What is the Urban League?
What the WCTU stands for.
What is the Women's Christian Temperance Union?
A policy program of Teddy Roosevelt's to restore the government's power.
What is New Nationalism?
It placed banks under Federal control to protect the economy.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
Created by Wilson, it looked to monitor and prevent monopolies.
What is the Federal Trade Commission?
It formed as a result of antisemitism and is still active today.
What is the Anti-Defamation League?
Who is Margaret Murray Washington?