Muckrakers
This is a person who uncovers scandals and corruption, digs up dirt on people.
What is a muckraker?
This guaranteed women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
A bill proposed by people to be put on the ballot.
What is an initiative?
He became the youngest president ever at age 42 when the president he served under was assassinated.
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
Another name for the right to vote.
What is suffrage?
The first leader of the US Forest service
Who was Gifford Pinchot?
This person wrote a popular book called "The Jungle", where he exposed the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This allowed the US government to create an income tax
What is the 16th Amendment?
When voters remove an elected official through early election.
What is a recall election?
A Republican president who came in 3rd in his reelection campaign, but later became a justice on the Supreme Court
Who is William Howard Taft?
One of two leaders in the right for women to vote who believed a state by state approach was the best way to do it.
Who were Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe?
The act that mandated cleaner conditions for the meat packing industry.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
(or the Pure Food & Drug Act)
Exposed Standard Oil Company in a series of articles
Who was Ida Tarbell?
What is the 18th Amendment?
When voters directly choose candidates to represent their party in a later election.
What is a direct primary?
The first Democratic president in decades, he won the 1912 election with less than 42% of the popular vote
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
One of two leaders in the right for women to vote who believed a national amendment applying to all states was the best way to do it.
Who were Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
A nickname given to Progressive Era presidents who tried to break up monopolies and powerful corporations.
Known for investigating corruption in government in American cities.
Who was Lincoln Steffens?
What is the 17th Amendment?
One of 4 states that already allowed women to vote in 1900
What is Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, or Utah?
The nickname for Roosevelt's 1912 3rd party, named after a strong animal
What is the Bull Moose Party
A compromise between different tactics to earn the right to vote for women was proposed by this founder of the National Womens Party (NWP)
Who is Alice Paul?
The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 created a network and different regions across the country to reform this industry.
What is banking?
Who was Jacob Riis
What is all or it or 100%?
In 2003 he became Governor of California as a result of a recall election, earning him the nickname "The Governator"
Who is Arnold Schwarzenegger
Roosevelt preference for cooperation and persuasion to make changes, but to use force if necessary was reflected in his popular saying.
What is "Speak softly and carry a big stick"?
The president who was supported by many women seeking the right to vote, and who was in office when the amendment finally passed.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
During the Progressive Era, African-Americans, Jews, and other religious and racial minorities had this in common.
What is, their problems in society were largely ignored.