Important Terms
To move towards a desired goal..
What is progress?
What are populists?
This Progressive President passed the Pure Food and Drug Act.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
An investigative reporter who seeks to expose problems...
What is a muckraker?
Most problems during this time period arose from this...
What is increase in industrialization, urbanization and immigration?
Relating to the ownership and use of land is called...
What is agrarian?
Farmers began to organize against big corporations because they believed them to be....
What is corrupt?
This act outlawed monopolistic practices by big corporations.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Upton Sinclair exposed this problem...
What is the unsanitary conditions of the meat packing facility?
What is they were charging high shipping rates?
An unfortunate situation
What is plight?
What is they felt ignored by the Republican and Democratic Party?
Hull House was founded by this person to help educate men and women living in a poor district to help move toward social reforms..
Who is Jane Adams?
This muckraker exposed the unfair business practices of the Standard Oil Company.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
Name an economic problem faced by farmers.
What is high debt, falling agricultural prices, or monopolistic practices?
A person who wants to move towards a desired goal..
Who is a progressive?
Elite group of politicians that controlled Louisiana's government...
Who are the Bourbon Democrats?
This formed when workers joined together to protect their interests..
What are unions?
This muckraker wanted to improve the living conditions of the poor living in New York City. His photographs led to the law requiring apartment buildings to include a courtyard.
Who is Jacob Riis?
Problems faced by children...
What is working long hours in unsafe conditions?
Someone who believes is using the government to bring about change..
Who is a political progressive?
Farmers and populists promoted this solution to help reduce the falling agricultural prices...
What is bimetallism?
Name one goal of the reform movement...
What is 1) end child labor 2) women right to vote 3) clean up politics 4) African American civil rights 5) better pay/working conditions for workers?
Upton Sinclair wrote this book that was read by the President and led to changes.
What is The Jungle?
Environmental issues faced by farmers...
What are droughts, harsh winters, insect blights?