Muckrakers
These are Muckrakers
Who were writers creating exposes for change in the US?
This is progressivism
People who wanted to use the government for change politically, socially and economically in the early 1900s
Interstate Commerce Act
What legislation led to regulation of rail roads
German Invasion of Belgium
Which German invasion of a US ally began shifting US to the Ally side during WWI
Food Administration
How volunteer groups (including propaganda) that convinced famers to increase production and Americans to limit consumption during the war
The book written to expose conditions in meat packing plants
What was The Jungle
What politically focused progressives wanted
How they wanted to limit political machines by making elections and legislation more direct
Seventeenth Amendment
Which legislation led to direct elections of the Senate?
Sinking of the Lusitania
How did German submarine warfare negatively impact US opinion (or which event was noteworthy)
Use of Industry
How volunteers helped coordinate US manufacturing to shift to wartime production of weapons and other wartime goods
A female writer who targeted Tariffs and Standard Oil
Who was Ida Tarbell
Inner city buildings used to provide aid and relief for immigrant neighborhoods
What were Settlement Houses
Sherman Antitrust Act
Which legislation led to breaking up monopolies formed during the Gilded Age?
Unrestricted Activity in January 1917
Which submarine action by Germany convinced the US to join the war on the Ally side?
Use of mass media to help convince the public that the war was a good idea
A writer who targeted free speech and workers’ rights and wrote The Jungle
Who Was Upton Sinclaire
The rise of Professions and experts
What did the early Progressive volunteers lead to?
Pure Food and Drug Act
Which legislation was a result of the Jungle and other muckraker activity to clean up food production?
Zimmerman Telegraph
Which message alerted the US that Germany was conspiring with Mexico
Espionage acts and Sedition acts
What was legislation that made it illegal to speak against the war efforts
A muckraker who focused on corruption (in government and business)
who was Lincoln Steffens
Social Workers
What did early volunteers in settlement houses and immigrant neighborhoods lead to?
Sixteenth Amendment
Which legislation led to the income tax?
US business interests
Which civilian group was losing the most money and also the most interested in an Ally victory due to loans
War Bonds
What were loans purchased by civilians that helped to finance the war