Progressive Acts
The Elkins and Hepburn Acts strengthened this earlier act.
Interstate Commerce Act
This progressive surveyed the western U.S. and championed the Newlands Act.
John Wesley Powell
A dam was built here after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
Hetch Hetchy Valley
This book exposed the corruption of urban political machines.
The Shame of the Cities
This pope reigned at the start of Italian fascism.
Pius XI
This progressive act created the FDA.
Pure Food and Drug Act
The legislative agenda of this progressive was called the Square Deal.
Theodore Roosevelt
This guaranteed direct election of U.S. Senators
17th Amendment
This book exposed the filth of the Chicago meatpacking industry.
The Jungle
This pope championed subsidiarity.
Pius XI
William H. Taft completed the breakup of this giant monopoly in 1911.
Standard Oil Company
He was known as the "Father of the National Parks."
John Muir
Lawsuits aimed at segregation were the legal strategy of this organization.
NAACP
This book exposed the ruthless practices of John D. Rockefeller.
The History of the Standard Oil Company
The predecessor and successor of this pope both championed the rejection of modernity.
Leo XIII
The goal of this progressive act was elimination of the Spoils System.
Pendleton Act
He founded the NAACP.
W.E.B. DuBois
This setback to progressivism created the constitutional principle, "Separate but Equal."
Plessy v. Ferguson
This book portrayed in photographs the miseries of tenement living.
How the Other Half Lives
He was pope during WW2.
Pius XII
This 1865 act was arguably the first progressive act undertaken by the federal government.
13th Amendment
These progressives were primarily journalists.
Muckrakers
This permitted the federal government to levy a national income tax.
16th Amendment
This book was a parable of the election of 1896.
The Wizard of Oz
He was the most popular pope who rejected modernity.
Pius IX