Muckrakers
Acts of Congress
1912 Presidential Election
Amendments
Progressivism
100

This muckraker supported prohibition and was a leader in the women's temperance movement. She would also CARRY an axe around to smash alcohol bottles.

Who is Carrie Nation?

100

This act was the first measure passed by the US Congress to dissolve monopolies.

What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?

100

This candidate was the Republican nominee.

Who is William Taft?

100

This Amendment granted women the right to vote.

What is the 19th Amendment?

100

Progressive movement happened in this century.

What is the 1900s/ 20th century?

200

This muckraker wrote "How the Other Half Lives" exposing the deplorable living conditions of the slums.

Who is Jacob Riis?
200

This act required federal inspection of meat and required the Agricultural Department (USDA) to set standards of cleanliness in meatpacking plants.

What is the Meat Inspection Act?

200

This candidate was the Democratic nominee.

Who is Woodrow Wilson?

200

This Amendment granted the federal government powers to tax citizens income.

What is the 16th Amendment?

200

This is the movement that wanted to ban alcohol.

What is the temperance movement?

300

This muckraker was a leader in the women's temperance movement. She also was arrested for voting in New York and ordered to pay a $100 dollar fine but never actually did.

Who is Frances Willard?

300

This act banned the sale of impure or falsely labeled food or drugs.

What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?

300

TR formed his own party called this.

What is the Bull-Moose party?

300

This Amendment prohibited alcohol.

What is the 18th Amendment?

300

TR created this bureau to deal with child labor

What is the Bureau of Child Labor?

400

This muckraker was a key figure in the forming of the NAACP and was a friend of Thomas Moss.

Who is Ida Wells?

400

Congress established this administration in 1906 under TR to prevent the manufacture, sale, or transportation of misbranded or poisonous food. 

What is the Food and Drug Administration?

400

This political party had its candidate thrown in jail.

What is the communist/ socialist party?

400

This Amendment granted the direct election of senators.

What is the 17th Amendment?

400

This outdoorsman was seen as the "father of national parks."

Who is John Muir?

500

This muckraker wrote "The Shame of the Cities" exposing political machines and bosses.

Who is Lincoln Steffens?

500

This act gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set railroad rates.

What is the Hepburn Act?

500

This political candidate was thrown in jail for sedition before the election.

Who is Eugene V. Debs?

500

This Amendment granted African-American men the right to vote.

What is the 15th Amendment?

500
These are the "3Cs" of TR's Square Deal.

What is control corporations, consumer protection, and conservation?