Who's That?
the journalists who exposed the corruption, scandal, and filth of society
Who are muckrakers?
organizations who wanted to replace corrupt officials with honest leaders
Good Government Leagues
She became one of the leading "muckrakers", challenging monopoly practices in American Industry. She published, "A history of the Standard Oil Company" that led to a federal investigation of Rockefeller's competitive tactics.
Who is Ida M. Tarbell?
This man encouraged African Americans to improve their education and economic well-being. He was born into slavery, but was able to become a teacher
This amendment allows the federal government to impose direct taxes on people's income.
What is the Sixteenth Amendment?
Wisconsin governor whose progressive reforms became a model for other states
Who is Robert M. La Follette?
When voters can remove elected officials from office it is called this.
What is recall?
She created the Woman's Christian Remperance Union that campained to restrice the sale of alcoholic beverages.
Who is Frances Willard?
Founded by Booker T. Washington, this helped African Americans learn trades and become economically self-sufficient
What is the Tuskegee Institute?
This amendment allows voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators.
What is the Seventeenth Amendment?
He wrote a book exposing the unsanitary practices in the meat-processing industry
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This allowed Americans to vote directly for U.S. senators
What is the Seventeenth Amendment?
This temperance fighter stormed saloons and smashed bottles with an axe in the 1890s.
Who is Carry Nation?
Born in Massachusetts, this African American man saw racism for the first time while in college. He earned a Phd from Harvard and protested unjust treatment and fought for equal rights.
Who was W.E.B Du Bois?
This amendment banned the production and sale of alcoholic drinks.
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
She was the founder of a women's suffrage group that became the National Woman's Party. She got arrested and would go on hunger strikes.
Who is Alice Paul?
Theodore Roosevelt called his progressive policy by this name.
What is the square deal?
Became president of the NAWSA and gave powerful speeches arguing that women should have the right to vote.
Du Bois helped to found this association that helped fight for African American rights such as the right to vote. It helped to make the grandfather clauses illegal.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
This amendment allows women to vote! WOOHOO!
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
The first progressive president. He became president after McKinley's death
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This Act made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained trade.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
She was the first woman elected to Congress
Who is Jeanette Rankin?
This league helped African Americans find jobs and housing in northern cities. They helped people with health, sanitation, and education.
What is the National Urban League?
This is the law the stops the manufacturing, sale, or transportation of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?