Vocab
What is a Robber Baron
Successful industrialists whose business practices were often considered ruthless or unethical
Founder of the National Association of Colored People
W. E. B. Du Bois
This prevented food borne pathogens or chemical contaminants in meat?
Meat Inspection Act
This allowed for the direct election of U.S. senators by citizens
Seventeenth Amendment
Famous muckraker who wrote the book "The Jungle" ?
Upton Sinclair
What is Referendum?
A process that allowed citizens to approve or reject a law passed by a legislature
A pioneer crusader for women's suffrage in the United States
Susan B. Anthony
What did the Jim Crow laws intend to do?
Separate the Whites from American Americans
Amendment that gave women the right to vote?
Nineteenth Amendment
America's 26th President?
Theodore Roosevelt
National American Woman Suffrage Association
American journalist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890's
Ida B. Wells
This declared all non-citizen Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States to be citizens.
Citizenship Act of 1924
This gave Congress the power to tax income?
Sixteenth Amendment
The 28th president of America?
Woodrow Wilson
This movement was an effort among protestant Christians to improve the Economic moral and social conditions of the urban poor.
Social Gospel
Was appointed Secretary of State in President William McKinley's Cabinet?
John Hay
This act created a central banking system, consisting of twelve regional banks governed by the Federal Reserve Board.
Federal Reserve Act
What did the Treaty of Paris end?
The War of the American Revolution.
He served as the chief forester during Theodore Roosevelt's presidency.
Gifford Pinchot
Journalists who expose corruption in politics and big business?
Muckrakers
The Hawaiian Kingdom's only reigning queen and last monarch?
Queen Liliuokalani
Established a colonial government in Puerto Rico, taking away their independence?
Foraker Act
What did Extractive Economy's do?
Removed raw materials from its colonies.
An educator who urged blacks to better themselves through education and economic advancement, rather than by trying to attain equal rights?
Booker T. Washington