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Journalists who exposed the truth during the Progressive Era and gave citizens information on things like corruption and child labor.
BONUS: Which muckraker focused on corruption in cities?
Muckrakers
Lincoln Steffens
What term means to peacefully protest a law without breaking any laws?
BONUS: What group of women violently fought for prohibition?
civili disobedience
Anti-Saloon League
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
BONUS: What term means the right to vote for women?
19th
Suffrage
_______________ was hand picked by Theodore Roosevelt to be his successor.
William Howard Taft
Name at least two problems the progressve era was trying to fix.
child labor, segregation, women's rights, monopolies, dirty cities, corruption, etc.
What did each muckraker focus on:
Lewis Hines
Jacob Riis
Ida Tarbell
Ida Wells
Lincoln Steffens
Upton Sinclair
BONUS: Who wrote the book The Jungle?
child labor
terrible living conditions/slums
oil/monopolies
lynching
corruption in cities
meatpacking/nasty factories
Upton Sinclair
What was the name of Theodore Roosevelt's domestic plan that focused on the 3 C's?
BONUS: What were the 3 C's?
Square Deal
conservation, consumer protection, corporate control
What did the 16th amendment establish?
income tax
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
What were the 3 levels or areas in the United States that was the main focus of the Progressive Era?
economy, politics, and society
Which woman fought for a 10 hour workday for women in the U.S.?
BONUS: What group was set up by women that fought for prohibition in the U.S.?
Florence Kelly
Women's Christian Temperance Union
BONUS: What national park was established by Theodore Roosevelt?
conservation/preservation
Yosemite National Park
What did the 17th amendment establish?
direct election of senators
The _______________ was an affair focused on an advisor under the Taft administration selling land/water rights to private companies.
Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
The _____________ was given power to regulate railroads after Frank Norris wrote his book The Octopus.
Which 1900s civil rights leader was born into slavery in Alabama, had a slow/peaceful approach to civil rights, and believed that finances were the first thing African Americans should conquer for equality?
BONUS: What school did he build and establish?
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute
What was the name of the party that Theodore Roosevelt created to try and win the election of 1912?
BONUS: Who won the election of 1912?
Bull Moose Party
Woodrow Wilson
What did the 18th amendment establish?
BONUS: What does prohibition mean?
prohibition
it's illegal to buy, sale, or transport alcohol
The ____________________ was a tariff under the Wilson administration that lowered tariffs and brought back the federal income tax.
Underwood Tariff
Ida Tarbell focused her writings on ______________ and his monopoly.
John D. Rockefeller
What civil rights leader in the 1900s was born into a rich family in the North, had a violent approach to civil rights, and started the Niagara Movement?
BONUS: What would the Niagara Movement eventually turn into?
W.E.B. DuBois
NAACP
What are the Clayton Anti-trust Act and Federal Trade Commission examples of?
government shutting down monopolies or trusts
What did the Pure Food and Drug Act force companies to do with their product?
BONUS: What organization was created to make sure companies followed laws like the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act?
they had to start labeling their products
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The ____________ established the United States banking system.
Federal Reserve Act
True or False: William Howard Taft wanted to be a U.S. president.
False