Progressive Reformers
Immigration
Social Issues & Reforms
Women and Minorities
Laws & Amendments
100

This photographer and journalist exposed tenement life in How the Other Half Lives

Jacob Riis

100

This was the main immigration processing center on the East Coast.

Ellis Island

100

These journalists exposed corruption and social issues.

Muckrakers

100

This amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.

19th Amendment

100

This act prohibited the sale of contaminated food and drugs.

Pure Food and Drug Act

200

This author exposed the harsh conditions in meatpacking plants in The Jungle.

Upton Sinclair

200

Immigrants arriving on the West Coast were processed here.

Angel Island

200

This amendment allowed for the direct election of U.S. Senators

17th Amendment

200

This African American leader promoted vocational training at Tuskegee Institute.

Booker T. Washington

200

This law created a system for regulating the labeling and inspection of meat products.

Meat Inspection Act

300

This African American woman journalist led an anti-lynching crusade and was one of the founders of the NAACP.

Ida B. Wells

300

This movement opposed immigration and favored native-born Americans.

Nativism

300

Powerful organizations who ran local politics.


Political bosses/machines


300

This African American leader co-founded the NAACP and advocated for civil rights. He was the editor of The Crisis.

WEB Du Bois

300

This amendment established a federal income tax

16th Amendment

400

She led the campaign for women’s suffrage and helped form the National Woman's Party.

Alice Paul

400

These community centers, like Hull House, helped immigrants adjust to life in the U.S.

Settlement Houses

400

This movement sought to ban alcohol in the U.S.

The Temperance Movement

400

This was the first women's rights convention held in the U.S.

Seneca Falls Convention 1848

400

This law banned monopolies and practices that restrained trade, though it was first used against labor unions.

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

500

This president was known for trust-busting and the Square Deal.

Theodore Roosevelt

500

This law, passed in 1924, limited immigration by setting quotas based on nationality.

National Origins Act or Immigration Act of 1924

500

U.S. Senators were known as this.

The Millionaires Club.

500

Who originally drafted the amendment to give women the right to vote?

Susan B. Anthony/Elizabeth Cady Stanton

500

This 1913 law restructured the banking system.

Federal Reserve Act