Progressive Era Reforms
This is the title of the book that exposed the meat industry.
What is The Jungle?
*Daily Double*
I was the naturalist who tried to convince Roosevelt to protect Yosemite.
*Daily Double*
This is the term used to describe when a single person or company runs the entire industry. It is the eventual goal of Vertical Integration.
This is the term used to describe newspapers printing false and inflammatory stories in order to sell more papers.
What is Yellow Journalism?
Teddy received this nickname for going after the unfair business practices of the day.
What is Trust Buster?
This is the house that Jane Addams built.
What is Hull House?
I went around to bars and smashy-smahed all the alcohol!
Who was Carrie Nation?
Roosevelt was upset at President Taft because he used his office like this.
What is sparingly?
In order to build the canal, Roosevelt helped supply the revolutionaries in their fight against this country?
What is Columbia?
Teddy Roosevelt promised Americans this kind of deal.
What is a Square Deal?
Outrage over Sinclair's book led to this act being passed to regulate what goes into food and medicine.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
I am best known for my photographs of people living in New York Cities poorest slums.
Who is Jacob Riis
The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers fought for better conditions at this plant.
What is the Homestead Steel Plant?
This was the event that got us into the war against Spain.
What is the destruction of the USS Maine?
This is the name of the party that Teddy started for the 1912 election.
What is Bull Moose Party.
This is the term used to describe journalists, writers, really anybody who tried to document the rotten underbelly of the Gilded Age.
What is Muckraker?
I vacationed in Europe and witnessed how they help the poor. I decided to bring those ideas back and created a house that reached out to help all new immigrants and the poor. They often call me the mother of Social Work.
Who is Jane Addams?
Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis stated this.
What is The Frontier was our National Identity and now that it is gone we must find a new identity or face decline
The term used for Roosevelt's diplomacy during his presidency
What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
Teddy fought for the 3 C's also known as this.
What is Consumer Protections, Corporate Control, and Conservation?
When the mine owners refused to negotiate with the unions, Teddy Roosevelt threatened to do this?
What is nationalize the mines (take them over)
I exposed the horrible treatment of workers in the meatpacking industry. I also showed the world how dirty it was.
Who was Upton Sinclair?
This was the Union organization that fought for the Miners
What is The United Mine Workers of America
Teddy really wanted to build a canal through this country.
What is Panama?
This act allowed the President to preserve national landmarks.
What is the Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities