Progressive Reforms
Reform Amendments
Progressive Reformers
Regulation of Business and Government
The Muckrakers
100
Forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of food and patent medicines containing harmful ingredients and required that containers of food and medicines carry ingredient labels
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act
100
Allowed the U.S. government to collect taxes on an individual's income
What is the 16th amendment
100
Was a social worker that worked for the improvement of living conditions for immigrants
Who is Jane Addams
100
Created to limit the power of corporations and monopolies
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
100
His cartoons helped to inform the public about corruption in government and business
Who is Thomas Nast
200
Required federal inspections of meat shipped across state lines
What is the Meat Inspection Act
200
Established the direct election of United States Senators
What is the 17th amendment
200
Worked with lawmakers to help women gain the right of suffrage
Who is Carie Chapman Catt
200
Outlawed the practice of buying stock in a competing companies stock
What is the Clayton Act
200
Writer of the Jungle which exsposed the meat packing industry
Who is Upton Sinclair
300
Created a central fund from which banks could borrow to prevent collapse during financial panic and helped to insure deposits made into banks
What is the Federal Reserve Act
300
Outlawed the sale, manufacture, distribution and consumption of alcoholic beverages
What is 18th amendment
300
American labor leader the helped to found the American Federation of Labor
Who is Samuel Gompers
300
Method of allowing voters to propose a law on the ballot for public approval
What is initiative
300
Challanged the business practices of the Standard Oil Company
Who is Ida Tarbell
400
Fought for by women and was given by the 19th amendment in 1920
What is suffrage
400
Gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th amendment
400
Leader of the American Railways Union and he supported the Pullman Strike
Who is Eugene Debs
400
Procedure that allows voters to oppose or reject a law already proposed or passed by the government
What is referendum
400
Wrote How the Other Half Lives and exposed the living conditions of immigrants in the United States.
Who is Jacob Riis
500
The doing away with all alcoholic beverages and was a key issue among women reformers
What is prohibition
500
Set the termination date of the president and senators
What is the 20th amendment
500
Was active in the womens temperance movement, women suffrage, and and was co-founder of the National Womens Suffrage Association
Who is Susan B. Anthony
500
To remove an elected official from office
What is recall
500
Managing editor of McClure magazine and wrote about government corruption in his book The Shame of the Cities
Who is Lincoln Stevens