Economic Problems and Reform
A company controls an entire industry and eliminates competition.
Monopoly
Journalists who exposed corruption and social problems during the Progressive Era.
Muckrakers
Overcrowding, disease, and lack of sanitation were problems faced by this group.
Urban poor or immigrants
This amendment created a graduated income tax.
Children during the Progressive Era often worked long hours in these dangerous places instead of going to school.
Factories, mines, or mills
He wrote the Jungle, exposing unsanitary meatpacking conditions.
Upton Sinclair
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
This amendment allowed voters to directly elect U.S. Senators.
17th Amendment
Roosevelt's domestic program based on fairness.
Square Deal
This economic policy allowed businesses to operate with little government interference.
Laissez-faire
She exposed Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller.
Ida Tarbell
The right for women to vote.
Suffrage
This reform allows voters to remove an elected official before their term ends.
Recall
The President known for Dollar Diplomacy
William Howard Taft
This act made trusts illegal but was not strongly enforced at first.
Sherman Antitrust Act
He photographed and wrote about the horrible living conditions of the urban poor.
Jacob Riis
Settlement house founded in Chicago by Jane Addams.
Hull House
This reform allows citizens to propose laws.
Initiative
This act created the central banking system.
Federal Reserve Act
This Supreme Court case ruled that limiting bakery hours to 60 hours violated freedom of contract.
Lochner v. New York
He revealed political corruption in cities and wrote "The Shame of the Cities"
Lincoln Steffens
This Supreme Court case established "separate but equal."
Plessy v. Ferguson
This reform allows citizens to vote directly on laws that are passed by the legislature.
Referendum
The 3 C's of Roosevelt's Square Deal.
Conservation, Consumer Protection, and Corporation Control