Amendments
This amendment allowed the federal government to collect an income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
This muckraker used photographs and his book How the Other Half Lives to expose poor living conditions in city tenements.
Who is Jacob Riis?
Known as a “trustbuster,” this president promoted the Square Deal and protected natural resources.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This 1906 law required federal inspection of meatpacking and sanitary conditions in processing plants.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
Ida B. Wells investigated this practice of murdering people through mob violence without a legal trial
What is lynching?
After the 17th Amendment, these people elected U.S. senators directly.
Who are the voters of each state?
This journalist investigated lynching and exposed the false claims used to justify violence against Black Americans.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
After reading The Jungle, Roosevelt supported these two 1906 laws to protect consumers.
What are the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act?
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This 1887 law regulated railroad rates and created the Interstate Commerce Commission.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
These laws enforced racial segregation in schools, transportation, and public places.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This reformer campaigned for women’s voting rights but died before the amendment was ratified.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
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This muckraker wrote The Jungle, exposing unsafe meatpacking conditions and helping lead to food-safety laws in 1906
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This president followed Roosevelt and brought more antitrust lawsuits than his predecessor.
Who is William Howard Taft?
This 1906 law prohibited the interstate sale of adulterated or falsely labeled food and medicine.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This white supremacist organization used threats and violence to suppress Black Americans’ rights and maintain white dominance.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This amendment established nationwide prohibition.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This civil rights activist helped found the NAACP and demanded full equality and political rights for Black Americans
Who is W. E. B. Du Bois?
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The split between Roosevelt and Taft divided Republican voters in 1912, helping this candidate win the presidency.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This 1890 law prohibited trusts and business combinations that restrained trade.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
W. E. B. Du Bois helped found this organization in 1909 to fight racial discrimination and advance equal rights through legal challenges and activism.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
These were the three major changes established by the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
What are abolishing slavery, establishing citizenship and equal protection, and prohibiting voting discrimination based on race?
This reformer founded Hull House, providing immigrants and the urban poor with education, childcare, and other services.
Who is Jane Addams?
President Theodore Roosevelt supported this policy of protecting forests, wildlife, and other natural resources.
What is conservation?
This 1914 law strengthened antitrust protections and declared that labor unions were not illegal combinations in restraint of trade.
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?
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This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation under “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?