Populism and the People's Party
A political stance that elevated ordinary working people over elites who control business, industry, and politics.
What is populism?
Journalists who exposed problems in society during the Industrial Era
Who were muckrakers?
Roosevelt’s plan to help America during the Progressive Era
What is the Square Deal?
Required inspectors to come in to check the cleanliness of facilities
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
Low pay, long hours, and dangerous working conditions
What were working conditions like during the Industrial Era?
This invention allowed factories to be open later and an increase in production.
What is electricity/the lightbulb?
Wrote The Jungle that described conditions in meat packing facilities
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Allowed Roosevelt’s and future presidents to designate historic and prehistoric sites as national monuments
What is the Antiquities Act?
Allowed for the direct election of U.S. senators
What is the 17th amendment?
American political cartoonists who created Uncle Sam.
Who is Thomas Nast?
It led to the creation of new jobs with operators, technicians, and linemen.
What is the telephone?
Wrote The History of Standard Oil Co. to expose John D. Rockefeller’s business practices
Who is Ida Tarbell?
Pushed for these two pieces of legislation to protect consumers
Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act
Created the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate the railroad industry
What were the two issues that were supposed to be addressed in the Louisiana Constitution of 1913.
State debt and drainage in New Orleans
Organization made by farmers that offered agricultural and community connections that became more political after years had passed
What is the Grange?
Wrote How the Other Half Lives to show people what life was like for people in tenements
Who is Jacob Riis?
Gave the government authority to regulate how railroads operated and set railroad rates
What is the Hepburn Act?
First attempt by the government to prohibit trusts
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Created a tax for companies that used child labor. (DOUBLE JEOPARDY)
What is the Child Labor Tax Law?
Name three things that populists demanded.
More money in circulation, regulated railroad rates, and an income tax rather than a land tax
Two pieces of legislation passed as a result of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act?
The Three Cs of Roosevelt’s Square Deal
Controlling corporations, protecting consumers, and conserving natural resources
Prohibited companies from requiring customers to do business with them exclusively
What is the Clayton Anti-trust Act?
BLAST FROM THE PAST: Happened after Sitting Bull was accidentally killed by the U.S. government
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?