People
This president became known as the "Trust Buster" for his efforts to break up monopolies.
Teddy Roosevelt
This movement pushed for saving land in the form of national parks.
Conservationist Movement
This amendment allowed for citizens to propose a law to be voted on.
Initiative
Roosevelt used this law for the first time to break up monopolies
Sherman Antitrust Act
This 1911 tragedy in New York City killed over 140 garment workers, most of them young immigrant women, and led to major workplace safety reforms.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
She opened Hull House to help immigrants assimilate to American society
Jane Addams
Jane Addams founded this Chicago settlement house to help immigrants.
Hull House
This process allows voters to remove an elected official from office before their term ends.
Recall
This term describes companies that completely control a market.
Monopoly
This 1906 law required truthful labeling of medicines and food products
Pure Food and Drug Act
This author of The Jungle exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.
Upton Sinclair
This amendment established a federal income tax to fund government programs.
16th Amendment
This practice lets voters approve or reject laws passed by state legislatures
Referendum
Taft’s administration initiated twice as many antitrust lawsuits as this president’s
Teddy Roosevelt
The Meat Inspection Act was passed in response to this muckraker book.
the Jungle by Upton Sinclair
This African American leader promoted a strategy of vocational education and gradual economic progress for Black Americans.
Booker T. Washington
This reform journalist exposed the harsh conditions of tenement housing in How the Other Half Lives (1890).
Jacob Riis
This African American leader co-founded the NAACP in 1909 and argued for the “Talented Tenth” to lead the fight for civil rights.
W.E.B. Du Bois
This 1914 law strengthened antitrust regulation and outlawed unfair business practices.
Clayton Antitrust Act
Roosevelt set aside more than 230 million acres of land for this purpose
Conservation
This muckraker’s exposé The History of the Standard Oil Company targeted the unfair practices of John D. Rockefeller.
Ida Tarbell
This organization, founded in 1909, focused on fighting racial discrimination and advocating civil rights.
NAACP
This Wisconsin governor was a key Progressive reformer who pushed for direct primaries and tax reform.
Robert La Follette
Wilson created this federal agency to investigate and regulate unfair trade practices
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Immigrants often lived in these overcrowded apartment buildings with poor ventilation and sanitation, leading to frequent disease outbreaks in cities.
Tenements