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Name the muckraker
Acts
100
Review: Quickly passed by Republicans that forbade either the federal government or the states from denying citizens the right to vote on the basis of race, color, or "previous conditions of servitude". Set up the foundation for future equal opportunity laws.
What is the 15th Amendment
100
The program used by Woodrow Wilson during his campaign of 1912, called for stronger antitrust legislation, banking reform, and tariff reductions, favoring small enterprise, entrepreneurship, and unmonopolized market, while at the same time shunning social reform such as social insurance.
What is New Freedom
100
Wilson becomes President
What is 1912
100
He wrote the book "Wealth Against Commonwealth" in 1894. It was part of the progressive movement and the book's purpose was to show the wrong in the monopoly of the Standard Oil Company.
What is Henry Demarest Lloyd
100
Granted assistance to federal civil-service employees during period of disability.(1916)
What is Workingmen's Compensation Act
200
The amendment to the United States Constitution (1913) gave Congress the power to tax income.
What is the 16th Amendment
200
Act of 1914 allowed president-appointed government regulators to overlook seemingly corrupt trade markets in order to eliminate unfair marketing practices and monopolies
What is Federal Trade Commission
200
When did the 16th amendment happen
What is 1913
200
A reformer who worked to prohibit child labor and to improve conditions for female workers
What is Florence Kelley
200
Lengthened Sherman Anti-Trust Act's list of practices. Exempted labor unions from being called trusts, legalized strikes and peaceful picketing by labor union members.(1914)
What is Clayton Anti-Trust Act
300
Passed in 1913, this amendment to the Constitution calls for the direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures.
What is the 17th Amendment
300
In 1916 allowed assistance to federal civil-service employees during periods of disability, restricted Child labor, and established eight hour days for employees on railroads carrying interstate commerce
What is Workingmen's Compensation Act
300
World War 1 begins in Europe
What is 1914
300
He was the author of the sensational novel, THE JUNGLE, published in 1906. His intention was to describe the conditions of canning factory workers. Instead, Americans were disgusted by his descriptions of dirty food production. His book influenced consumers to demand safer canned products.
What is Upton Sinclair
300
Congressional measure making credit available to farmers at low rates of interest.(1916)
What is Federal Farm Loan Act
400
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages.
What is the 18th Amendment
400
Signed by Woodrow Wilson in 1916 granted the Philippines territorial rights, while later promising to grant independence later on once a "stable government" was established.
What is Jones Act
400
Brandeis appointed to supreme court
What is 1916
400
Ida Tarbell was a "Muckraker" who wrote in the magazine McClure's (1921). As a younger woman, in 1904, Tarbell made her reputation by publishing the history of the Standard Oil Company, the "Mother of Trusts."
What is Ida Tarbell
400
Established an eight hour day for all employees on trains in interstate commerce with extra pay for overtime.(1916)
What is Adamson Act
500
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
What is the 19th Amendment
500
(Blank) and Allies divided Europe into two sections, mainly the central powers including Germany and Hungary-Austria and the Allies including Russia and Britain
What is Central Powers
500
United States buys Virgin Islands from Denmark
What is 1917
500
The head of the U.S. Forest Servic under Roosevelt, who believed that it was possible to make use of natural resources while conserving them
What is Gifford Pinchot
500
Authorized loans on the security of staple crops.(1916)
What is The Warehouse Act