The Gilded Age
This term, coined by Mark Twain, described a time that looked prosperous on the surface but was full of corruption underneath.
Writers and journalists who exposed corruption and social problems during the Progressive Era were known by this nickname.
Who are Muckrakers?
This term describes a company that completely controls a product or service, eliminating competition.
This amendment gave Congress the power to collect income taxes.
What is the 16th Amendment?
This term refers to protecting natural resources and the environment for future generations.
What is Conservation?
During the Gilded Age, this wealthy industrialist dominated the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This journalist used photographs to highlight some of the issues that would later be addressed by progressives?
Who is Lewis Hines?
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This amendment allowed for the direct election of U.S. Senators by the people.
This U.S. president was known for his strong support of conservation, creating national parks and forests to protect public lands.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Political machines, like this famous one in New York City, often controlled local government through patronage and corruption.
What is Tammany Hall?
This New York State Law addressed Unsafe building practices in New York. Would later because the basis for how building codes were written.
What is the New York State Tenement House Act of 1901?
This Department was created under Roosevelt to protect workers and consumers.
What is the Department of Commerce and Labor?
The initiative, referendum, and recall were reforms designed to give citizens more of this in government.
What is Direct Democracy/Political Power?
This naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club promoted preservation — keeping nature untouched by humans.
Who is John Muir
This idea, often used by the wealthy to justify their success, claimed that the strongest and most capable people naturally rise to the top.
What is Social Darwinism?
Many businesses started employing these Codes before they were mandated by the government as a way to protect their workers.
What are Workers comp and Safety Codes?
This 1911 tragedy in a New York factory led to improved safety regulations and labor reforms.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
This Act was passed after the financial scare of 1907.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
This forester and Roosevelt’s friend believed in using natural resources wisely for the benefit of many, rather than preserving them completely.
Who is Gifford Pinchot?
The growing gap between rich and poor, unsafe working conditions, and lack of government regulation during this era led directly to what major reform movement?
What is the Progressive Era?
What are Zoning Laws?
President Roosevelt used antitrust laws many times to file lawsuits breaking up monopolies earning him the name, "The Trust Buster". How many times did he file anti trust lawsuits?
44 times
One major goal of government reform during the Progressive Era was to reduce this — the dishonest or illegal behavior by those in power.
What is Corruption?
This major debate over building a dam in Yosemite’s Hetch Hetchy Valley highlighted the conflict between Muir’s preservationist views and Pinchot’s conservationist approach.
What is the Hetch Hetchy controversy (or Hetch Hetchy Dam debate)?