Progressive Problems
Term for powerful American indusrialist and financiers who amassed uprecedented wealth while their workers barely scraped by.
What is a robber baron.
This author aimed for the stomach with his expose "The Jungle."
Who is Upton Sinclair
A Christian movement the sought to tie together Salvation and doing good works for the poor.
What is The Social Gospel.
This amendment guaranteed the right for women to vote.
What is the nineteenth amendment.
This person was the Democratic Candidate in the 1912 election.
Who is Woodrow Wilson.
Children were not attending schools during the early 1900s due to this.
What is working in factories.
Muckrakers would use this primarily to influence society.
What is publishing articles and books.
This is the first settlement house in Chicago, Illinois founded by Jane Addams.
What is the Hull-House.
This amendment prohibited alcohol.
What is the eighteenth amendment.
He was shot while campaigning, but finished his speech before going to the hospital.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt.
Progressive reformers targeted city officials who built corrupt organizations called this.
What are trusts.
This immigrant used pictures to show society the living conditions inside New York Tenements.
Who is Jacob Riis.
An example of a settlement house with the acronym YMCA.
What is Youth Men's Christian Association.
This amendment established a federal income tax.
What is the sixteenth amendment.
This person was the Progressive or Bull Moose candidate for the 1912 Presidential election.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt.
Term used to describe a poor, dirty or shabbily dressed person, most commonly a child, who roamed city streets in torn or oversized clothes.
What is a 'Ragamuffin'.
Known as the "first muckracker", an editor for McClure's Magazine who exposed business bribery and political machines eroding city government
Who is Lincoln Steffens.
This legislation set up standards to ensure quality foods and medicines.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act.
This amendment established the direct election of U.S. Senators.
What is the seventeenth amendment.
This person was the Socialist candidate for the 1912 presidential election.
Who is Eugene V. Debs.
Formed when employees organize to gain better wages, benefits and working conditions.
What are labor unions.
This Jacob Riis book, complete with photos, detailed the lives of the immigrant poor.
What is How the Other Half Lives
This act, inspired by the Jungle, mandated regulation of the meat packing industry.
What is the Meat Inspection Act.
Only amendment to be repealed; done by the 21st Amendment.
What is the 18th Amendment: Prohibition.
His reelection bid was defined by his commitment to conservative constitutionalism, favoring legal, incremental reform over the radical, populist changes
Who is William Howard Taft.