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100

Democratic candidate for president in 1896 under the banner of "free silver coinage" which won him support of the Populist Party.

William Jennings Bryan

100

A 19th century reform movement based on the belief that Christians have a responsibility to help improve working conditions and alleviate poverty

Social Gospel Movement

100

a 1913 law that set up a system of banks and gave government the power to control the money supply

Federal Reserve Act

100

an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer and lecturer known for her work on Standard Oil

Ida Tarbell

100

The constitutional amendment adopted in 1920 that guarantees women the right to vote.

19th Amendment

200

Muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago.

Upton Sinclair

200

A group of investigative reporters who pointed out the abuses of big business and the corruption of urban politics; included Frank Norris (The Octopus) Ida Tarbell (A history of the standard oil company) Lincoln Steffens (the shame of the cities) and Upton Sinclair (The Jungle)

Muckrakers

200

A government agency established in 1914 to prevent unfair business practices and help maintain a competitive economy.

Federal Trade Commission

200

an American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the main leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (Not Susan B. Anthony)

Alice Paul

200

Amendment that established a graduated income tax

16th Amendment

300

1860-1935. Founder of Settlement House Movement(example; Hull House). First American Woman to earn Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.

Jane Addams

300

1913 constitutional amendment allowing American voters to directly elect US senators. Pushed by the Populist Movement to give people more say in government.

17th Amendment

300

A movement for social and educational organization through which farmers attempted to combat the power of the railroads in the late 19th centur

The Grange Movement

300

 led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and is often identified as one of the richest people (and richest Americans) in history

Andrew Carnegie

300

prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages

18th Amendment

400

1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910

W.E.B. DuBois

400

President Theodore Roosevelt's plan for reform; all Americans are entitled to an equal opportunity to succeed

The Square Deal

400

1887 - Passed laws regulating railroad rates

Interstate Commerce Act

400

known for his ownership of Standard Oil and was one of the wealthiest Americans of the 20th century

John D. Rockefeller

400

a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population by excluding (through a variety of morally criticized means) certain genetic groups judged to be inferior, and promoting other genetic groups judged to be superior

Eugenics

500

26th president, known for: conservationism, trust-busting, Hepburn Act, safe food regulations, "Square Deal," Panama Canal, Great White Fleet, Nobel Peace Prize for negotiation of peace in Russo-Japanese War

Theodore Roosevelt

500

28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership, created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act, progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women's suffrage (reluctantly), Treaty of Versailles, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations (but failed to win U.S. ratification), won Nobel Peace Prize

Woodrow Wilson

500

A law that allows the government to regulate or remove drugs and food from the national market. Like the Meat Inspection Act, this law is passed in 1906 after muckrakers exposed evils in American society.

The Pure Food and Drug Act


Ms. Tara will accept Food and Drug Act

500

an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation in the United States of America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

J.P. Morgan

500

The practice of donating money to the less fortunate in an effort to improve society

philanthropy