Journalism
The investigative journalists that exposed corruption and other problems to the country.
Who are muckrakers?
The US started to regulate big businesses by not being so "hands off." This word is French for "hands off."
What laissez-faire.
This woman tried to help assimilate immigrants by using Settlement Houses.
Who was Jane Addams?
This woman was very influential in fighting for women's rights during the Progressive Era.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
This Amendment gave the government the ability to tax people's income.
What is the 16th Amendment?
This book was written to expose conditions in the meatpacking industry.
What is "The Jungle?"
This law was passed to force railroad companies to treat people fairly.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
This man fought for equal rights for African Americans but wanted to take a gradual path by helping people get vocational skills.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Women's Suffrage means women's right to _____.
What is Vote?
This type of organization draws votes away from other political parties.
What is a Third Party?
This man wrote the book, "The Jungle."
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This law was passed after the book "The Jungle" was written.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act or the Meat Inspection Act?
This movement was characterized by applying Christian values to social issues of the time.
What is the Social Gospel Movement?
One issue that women fought for during the Progressive Era was Temperance or Prohibition. What is Prohibition?
What is the ban of alcohol?
Farmers and the Populist Party wanted free and unlimited coinage of this.
What is silver?
This woman wrote about lynching in America and fought for equal rights for African Americans.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
One way America tried to reform was to get citizens more involved in their government. This includes Initiative, Recall, and Reform. What are the 2 D's of the Progressive era that gave citizens more power over their government.
What is Direct Democracy?
This man wanted equality for African Americans immediately and helped found the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
This type of government reform was required to give women the right to vote.
What is a Constitutional Amendment?
This Amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This man used flash photography to show people the living conditions of the poor in America's cities.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This law helped dissolve, or break up, big businesses and monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
These were the small one room apartments with no electricity or running water that many immigrants and poor people had to live in.
What are Tenements?
This Convention was held in 1848 to argue for equal rights for women.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
After the 18th Amendment made the manufacture and sale of alcohol illegal, this amendment reversed that decision and made alcohol legal again.
What is the 21st Amendment?