The Progressive Movement
These journalists were essentially undercover reporters, who tried to discover corruption in America during the Progressive Era.
Who are muckrakers?
Teddy Roosevelt was vice president when this man was assassinated, bringing Roosevelt to the presidency in 1901.
Who is William McKinley?
Both Taft, Wilson, along with Roosevelt are considered to be this kind of president, as they broke up trusts and progressed the nation in a positive direction.
What are Progressive Presidents?
What is the 19th?
What is the assembly line?
What is the Square Deal?
William Taft is the only president to also hold this OTHER powerful and distinct role in the U.S. federal government.
What is Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court?
Roosevelt ran for a 3rd term for president in 1912 as a member of this party.
What is the Progressive Party?
What is the Bull Moose Party?
The banning of alcohol in America, known by this term, was a movement started in the Progressive Era.
What is Prohibition?
Nicknamed by some as the "trust buster", Roosevelt filed this many antitrust lawsuits through the Sherman Act during his time in office.
What is 44?
Wilson called his presidential agenda this, which included creating the Federal Trade Commission and lowering tariffs.
What is the New Freedom agenda?
The decision of Plessy v. Ferguson essentially made segregation legal, using this 3 word doctrine.
What is "separate but equal"?
This was the book written by Upton Sinclair that convinced Roosevelt to inspect the meat packing plants in Chicago during the Progressive Movement.
What is The Jungle?
When Theodore Roosevelt ascended to the presidency in 1901 he was this many years old, making him the youngest president in our nation's history.
What is 42?
What is the Federal Reserve System?
The passage of this amendment called for the direct election of U.S. senators, instead of having them appointed by state legislatures.
What is the 17th Amendment?
Florence Kelley was instrumental in the passing of this act, which outlawed child labor in Chicago and everywhere else in her home state.
What is the Illinois Factory Act?
A big fan of hunting and conservation, Roosevelt passed this important piece of legislation in 1906 that allowed him to make and preserve national parks.
What is the Antiquities Act?
What is Virginia?
This form of de facto slavery applied to Mexican laborers in the American West during the Progressive Era, where they worked off money owed to landowners.
What is debt peonage?