ACTS & LEGISLATION
a vote on an initiative
referendum
The muckraker who published a book that revealed the disgusting, and unsanitary state of meatpacking factories in Chicago, Illinois.
Upton Sinclair
The connection between the National Parks and Theodore Roosevelt
conservation
She was responsible for the creation of Hull House in Chicago, a place assisting poor immigrant women who were without jobs.
Jane Addams
A 19th century reform movement based on the belief that Christians have a responsibility to help improve working conditions and alleviate poverty.
Social Gospel Movement
What year was the National American Woman Suffrage?
1915
African American journalist who crusaded for racial justice due to lynching
Ida B Wells
The thing that connects Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, and Susan B. Anthony
women's suffrage
What amendment had to do with woman's suffrage?
19th Amendment
This validated segregation by allowing for “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites.
Plessy v Ferguson
Companies like Standard Oil were ultimately broken apart by legislation contained in these two famous antitrust acts
Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act
Women known for investigating in the Standard Oil Trust
Ida Tarbell
Theodore Roosevelt, and Upton Sinclair both helped get publicity for these reforms both passed in 1906.
Meatpacking Inspection Act and The Pure Food and Drug Act
The muckraker that drew attention to poverty in New York's tenement apartment housing
Jacob Riis
Had to be paid in many Southern States in order to gain access to the voting booth
Poll tax
A state government reform that allowed for voters to remove an unpopular official or politician from office.
Recall
Term for a journalist who exposed government abuses and big business corruption to the readers of mass circulation magazines and newspapers.
muckraker
Ida B. Wells, and W. E. B. Du Bois both helped found this anti-discriminatory organization.
The NAACP
He helped found the Niagara movement in 1905 which called for universal male suffrage, civil rights, and leadership by a black intellectual elite.
W.E.B. DuBois
Repealed, or ended, prohibition in the U.S
21st Amendment
Prohibited the manufacture sale or transportation of alcohol
18th Amendment
President who wanted to give Americans a fair, Square Deal, busted trusts, and was a conservationist
Theodore Roosevelt
She believed birth control was both a social and a medical reform.
Margaret Sanger
He was known for his support of practical education for African Americans at his Alabama school, Tuskegee Institute.
Booker T Washington
Made popular by William Randolph Hurst and Joseph Pulitzer, this sensational, sometimes irresponsible type of mass journalism swept the nation at the end of the 1800's
Yellow journalism