Muckrakers
What is Upton Sinclairs best known for?
Upton Sinclair is best known for writing the book ¨The Jungle¨ that would expose the horror of the meatpacking industry.
What was the illigal use of political influence for personal gain called?
Graft
What did the civil servise do?
The civil servise was a system that includes most government jobs, except elected positions, the judicary, and the military.
What did the 16th Amendment allow?
What would progressives do?
Reformers who worked to stop unfair practices by businesses and improve the way government works.
Who drew cartoons and told the public what Tweeds crimes were?
Thomas Nast
What is a Political boss?
Powerful politician who controlled work done locally and demanded payoffs from business.
graduated income tax
What Amendment allowed the direction of senaters by voters?
The 17th Amendment
Person who worked to destroy monopolies and trust were
trustbuster
What did Ida Tarbell write about?
Ida Tarbell Wrote ¨The History Of The Standard Oil Company¨ (in 1094) She exposed the corruption of the oil industry.
What did the spoil system do?
The spoil system would give jobs to their friends that support their agenda.
Initiative
What did the Pure Food and Drug Act legislated protect?
Legislators protected consumers from unsafe food and drug; stop false advertising.
Who wa sthe 26th president, at 42 he was the youngest president ro take ofice; a strong supporter of progressive goals?
Theodore Roosevelt also known as TR
What was the book called that was about vote stealing and political machines writen by Lincoln Steffens?
¨The Shame Of The Cities¨
Often controlled local government.
What let voters choose their party's candidate?
Primary
What did the 19th Amendment do?
The 19th Amendment stopped women's suffrage.
Who was William Howard Taft?
TRs secretary of war who became the 27th president; broke up moew trust than TR, approved safety rules for mines and laws giving civil servants an 8 hour work day.
IN the book "How The Other Half Lives" by Jacob Riis he published photos and what were they about?
In the book ¨How The Other Half Lives¨ by Jacob Riis he published photos and articles on tenement life.
What did Tweed do while he was a NYC, political boss?
Tweed controlled the democratic political machines known as Tammany Hall. Tweed also solr $100-200 million from New york City.
Way for people to vote directly on a proposed new law is called...
referendum
What did the Pure Food and Drug Act do?
The Pure Food and Drug Act stopped the horrors of the meat industry because they had unsanitary conditions.
Im known for world war i leadership, progressive income Tax, lower tariffs and womens suffrage and im the 28th president.
Woodrow Wilson