Business + Industry
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
This Muckraker wrote The Jungle, which sought to expose the horrid conditions in meat factories.
Upton Sinclair
This amendment gave women the right to vote
19th Amendment
This court case legalized segregation under a "separate but equal" clause
Plessy v. Ferguson
By collecting signatures, citizens can remove an elected official up to the State level.
Recall
Ida Tarbell's History of the Standard Oil Company exposed the shady behaviors of Rockefeller's monopoly and helped to pass this major political act.
A Muckraker who also was a photographer that took photos of tenement houses and slums in order to expose the living conditions of the lower class.
Jacob Riis
The seventeenth amendment, which allowed for the direct election of US senators, was created for this reason.
Corruption
This Civil Rights leader of the Progressive Era believed that African Americans should focus more on building their economic independence and taking on vocational education in order to eventually be seen as equals to white people.
By collecting signatures, citizens can have a bill put on a ballot or challenge the bill for removal. Adding a bill to a ballot is called This, whereas removing a law is called That (2 Answers)
Initiative and Referendum.
This government agency helps regulate businesses and keeps everything in check (i.e.: making sure corporations are not breaking any laws and are being fair to consumers).
The Federal Trade Commission
This Muckraker wrote about both the financial and government/administrative corruption in cities such as Louisiana and Philadelphia.
The Sixteenth Amendment sought to correct government oversight by establishing this tax.
Federal Income Tax
This Civil Rights Leader believed that while a vocational education was valuable in some ways, African Americans should also have access to a classical education, and that civil rights would be best achieved through direct action (protests, marches, etc.).
WEB DuBois
Law that requires meat be processed in sanitary facilities and prohibits reducing the quality of meat sold for consumption.
Meat Inspection Act
This Act prohibited acts that disadvantaged consumers, such as price discrimination, and legalized unions and strikes.
Clayton Antitrust Act
This Muckraker wrote about public health and exposed the dangers of the ingredients in medications and his publications helped lead to the Pure Food and Drug Act alongside the work of one of his fellow Muckrakers.
Sam H. Adams
The eighteenth amendment, also known as the ____ Amendment, banned the production, distribution, and sale of this substance (2 Answers).
Prohibition; Alcohol
This Civil Rights movement was founded in the Progressive Era by WEB DuBois and Ida B. Wells, among other black and white founders, and seeks to secure the rights established in Amendments 13-15 of the Constitution and Civil Rights for African Americans.
The NAACP
This Act bans the mislabeling of food and medicine products and requires a product disclose its ingredients, ESPECIALLY if they are dangerous.
Pure Food and Drug Act
An act that created a central bank in the United States in order to oversee monetary policy and manage the nation's money supply (ie. making loans, providing oversight to smaller banks).
Federal Reserve Act
A Muckraker AND Civil Rights Advocate who exposed the cruelty of lynching and murders of African Americans in the South
Ida B. Wells
The eighteenth amendment, despite being a law about banning alcohol, is also sometimes talked about in relation to womens' rights as well for these reasons.
- Husbands wasting money on alcohol/being perpetually drunk
This Movement, founded by WEB DuBois, served as the foundation for the NAACP and believed in using political action (protests, strikes, etc.) in order to attain Civil Rights.
Niagara Movement
The Keatings-Owens Child Labor Act banned selling products made by children under this age and children between these ages who worked more than eight hours a day (2 Answers).
14; 15-16