This is the term used to describe women activists fighting for the right to vote
What is a suffragette?
The FDA was created as a result of this federal legislation passed in 1906 & 1911.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This amendment was repealed by the 21st amendment.
What is the 18th Amendment.
These are the three progressive era presidents.
Who is Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft, and Theodore Roosevelt.
The Act that regulated shipping costs to prevent price discrimination
What is Interstate Commerce Act!
This act was a result of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle".
What is the Meat Inspection Act of 1906. Pure Food and Drug Act
This man was the first president of the Railroad Workers Union that eventually run for the President of the US while in prison
Who is Eugene Debbs.
This President is known as " Trustbuster"
Who is Teddy Roosevelt!
The Constitutional Amendment that established gradual Income Tax
What is the 16th Amendment?
Prior to the 17th Amendment, this was how senators were elected to the US Senate.
By the state legislatures.
The famous strike in textile mills in Lawrence, MA where women and their children took it to the streets
What is Bread and Roses Strike
These two political organizations were at the forefront of fighting for women's suffrage.
What is the NAWSA and NWP (National American Women's Suffrage Association and National Women's Party).
Describe the following: 1) What is muckraker. 2) An example of a muckraker's published work (title, author, what it sought to reform).
What is one of many answers! Muckrakers - members of the press or journalists who sought to expose social problems in America at the turn of the century. Muckrakers include: Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis, etc.
What event led to the passage of Sullivan-Hoye Act to create fire codes for the buildings and an EXIT sign? What year?
What is Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire? 1911
These are the four progressive era amendments.
What is the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th.
The solution to unregulated banks that meant to boost confidence of people into American banking system. Today it sets up interest rates.
What Federal Reserve Act of 1913
The Act that created public lands that were eventually to become National Parks
What is Antiquity Act!