Theodore Roosevelt
The nickname for the voluntary calvary Unit Roosevelt led during the Spanish-American War
The Rough Riders
This amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1920, granted women the right to vote.
The 19th Amendment
This amendment, ratified in 1913, allowed citizens to directly elect their U.S. senators.
The Seventeenth Amendment
Dangerous factories and long hours led workers to form these organizations to fight for better wages and working conditions.
Labor Unions
28th president of the United States who was responsible for the Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act, progressive income tax.
Woodrow Wilson
Roosevelt ran for this party during the election of 1912
The Bull-Moose Party
This formerly enslaved abolitionist and women’s rights advocate delivered the famous speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” in 1851.
Sojourner Truth
This president supported many Progressive reforms under his “Square Deal.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Workers often demanded this standard workday length as a major labor reform in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Eight Hour Workday
27th president of the U.S.; he angered progressives by moving cautiously toward reforms.
William Howard Taft
This major canal in Central America was completed under Roosevelt’s leadership.
The Panama Canal
This western U.S. territory became the first to grant women the right to vote in 1869
Wyoming
This book by Upton Sinclair exposed the conditions of the meatpacking industry.
The Jungle
his violent 1892 steelworkers’ strike in Pennsylvania involved clashes between workers and Pinkerton guards.
Homestead Strike
Founded the Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington
Roosevelt’s famous foreign policy phrase began with “Speak softly and carry a big…”
Big Stick
This suffrage leader worked closely with Stanton and helped found the National Woman Suffrage Association.
Susan B. Anthony
This 1906 law prevented the sale of mislabeled or contaminated food and medicine.
Pure Food and Drug Act
This term describes when workers refuse to work to protest unsafe conditions, low pay, or long hours.
Strike
First woman to hold federal office in the United States.
Jeanette Rankin
In 1901, Roosevelt became the youngest president in U.S. history at age 42 after the death of this president.
William Mckinley
This document, modeled after the Declaration of Independence, outlined women’s grievances and demands for equal rights.
The Declaration of Sentiments
This federal agency, created in 1914, was designed to prevent unfair business practices and monopolies.
his 1904 law required safer working conditions in factories and limited the use of child labor in manufacturing.
Labor Act of 1904
Socialist and one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World
Eugene V. Debs