Muckrakers
This photographer wrote a book about the unhealthy urban environment called How the Other Half Lives.
Who is Jacob Riis?
A collection of men from all walks of life who volunteered to fight with Teddy Roosevelt.
Who were the rough riders?
This policy arose from the prospect of new commercial markets overseas?
What is Imperialism?
What people of the time called the purchase of Alaska.
What is Seward's Folly?
The law that stopped political machines and bosses from stuffing the ballots or intimidating voters.
What is secret ballot?
Her writing helped to break up Rockefeller's monopoly of US Steel.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This African American leader suggested education and labor as the way to eventually gain rights.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This leader felt that African Americans should be politically active and demand equality for all.
Who is WEB DuBois?
Roosevelt aided rebels so this project would allow better trade and military movement between the Atlantic and Pacific.
What is the Panama Canal?
The Constitutional Amendment that gives women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Boss Tweed said that his people couldn't read but they could understand this person's cartoons aimed against Tweed.
Who is Thomas Nast?
A violent protest as a result of the employer raising rents and cutting wages of his workers.
What is the Pullman Strike?
To take or seize control of a foreign territory?
What is annexation?
This group of Floridians contributed money to Cuban revolutionaries resisting Spain?
What are Hispanic Floridians/Cuban-Americans?
Organizations that provided services to citizens in exchange for their votes.
What are political machines?
Two laws inspired by The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair.
What are the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act?
Two of the three labor protests that end in defeat for the protesters.
What are the Pullman Strike, Haymarket Riot, Homestead Strike? Name 2 only.
Theodore Roosevelt's policy.
What was Big Stick?
This type of newspaper used sensational reporting to encourage public support of the Spanish-American War.
Yellow Journalism
(Yellow Press)
When the people, not lawmakers, propose a law.
What is Initiative?
Jane Addams started this settlement house to help immigrant women assimilate to American life.
What is Hull House?
Unsafe working conditions, 10-14 hour workdays, and low wages led to the formation of these.
What are Labor Unions?
Enacted to ensure Chinese markets were open to The World.
What is the Open Door Policy?
A condition allowing a base at Guantanamo in exchange for withdrawing US troops after the Spanish-American War.
What is the Platt Amendment?
This woman helped get child labor laws passed.
Who is Florence Kelley?