Vocabulary
What is paying money to get someone to something against the law?
Bribe
Who shows poor living conditions in tenements?
(He is known as the writer of 'How the Other Half Lives')
Jacob Riis
Why were, many women united against alcohol?
Because They felt that alcohol was a dangerous and deadly drug that destroyed people and families.
(Plus, it caused men to violence against women)
The time when wealthy people lived very well and spent a great deal of money known as what?
What is the name of the group which law enforcement agents from Chicago?
Untouchables
What did Ida Tarbell do? (1 thing)
She wrote about corruption in the oil industry.
She found out that John D. Rockefeller had made secret deals with railroad companies.
Who are the famous women during the Women's Suffrage? (say one name)
Susan B. Anthony(Raised in a Quaker family)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton(Worked with Susan B. Anthony)
Lucretia Mott(open air school)
Who controlled elections by giving gifts, jobs, and favors to voters in exchange for their votes?
William Tweed
Who is a writer who brings attention to corruption?
A muckraker.
How the muckrakers' writings could affect people?
When they write then it could affect the people's opinions. Then it would make to help or reform the problems.
What did the 19th amendment do?
In 1920, the U.S. gave the right to vote to American women. (This right is known as Women's Suffrage)
What was the Civil Service Act saying?
The act said that people who wanted governments jobs had to take a test
Income tax
He wrote about working conditions for immigrants; unsanitary conditions in meat-packing plants.
What were Woodrow Wilson's Reforms?
(There had 4, but it is fine to say only 2 things)
1. Decreases the tax to make goods cheaper for Americans to buy.
2. The rich pay more tax than the poor.
3. Price-fixing, or ended the companies which work together to raise or lower the goods.
4. The rights of unions and workers more protected.
What did some big business leaders try to get governments to do?
What is a system in which private businesses, farms, and factories compete with one another to make a profit?
Capitalism
Who wrote about corruption in local government?
Lincoln Steffen.
During when, 'not allowed' to sell, make, transport alcohol?
Prohibition (Eighteenth Amendment)
What are the political cartoons?
The cartoons draw for conveying easily about social satire to the people