Muckrakers
This novel by Upton Sinclair exposed the unsanitary practices of the Chicago meatpacking industry.
What is The Jungle?
This 19th Amendment granted women this right.
What is the right to vote (women's suffrage)?
This law addressed patronage and corruption by requiring people to be qualified for government jobs (merit, not political ties).
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
This concept guarantees that employees are paid a minimum amount according to the law.
What is Minimum Wage?
This 1906 Act created sanitary standards for slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
This photographer exposed the poor conditions of tenements in NYC with his book, How The Other Half Lives
Who is Jacob Riis?
The 18th Amendment banned the manufacture, sale, distribution, and consumption of this.
What is alcohol?
The ability for voters to propose a new law by collecting signatures on a petition is called this
What is the Initiative?
The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 set up a system of federal banks and gave the government the power to control this.
What is the money supply?
This act, also passed in 1906, prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This reformer founded Hull House, a famous Settlement House, to help the poor and immigrants in Chicago.
Who is Jane Addams?
This constitutional amendment allowed voters to directly elect U.S. Senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This is the method of allowing voters to remove an elected official from office before their term is over.
What is the Recall?
Theodore Roosevelt's promise of fair and equal treatment for all, particularly workers, consumers, and business, was called this.
What is the Square Deal?
President Theodore Roosevelt showed his commitment to the environment by using Conservation Acts to create these.
What are national parks and national monuments?
This muckraker wrote A History of Standard Oil, exposing the corruption of John D. Rockefeller's oil industry.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This amendment gave Congress the power to collect taxes on income.
What is the 16th Amendment?
The initiative, referendum, and recall were supported by Progressives to increase this
What is citizen participation in government?
The Clayton Antitrust Act was designed to strengthen the Sherman Antitrust Act and specifically declared this illegal for big businesses to prevent.
What is not allowing unions in factories and not allowing strikes?
The passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act illustrated the federal government's commitment to this.
What is consumer protection and public health?
Thomas Nast used his satirical cartoons to expose the corruption of this New York City political machine led by William 'Boss' Tweed.
What is Tammany Hall?
The 18th Amendment was most likely a result of the efforts of this specific reform organization.
What is the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)?
Lincoln Steffens' muckraking work, The Shame of the Cities, focused on exposing this specific type of corruption.
What is corruption in city governments (or political machines)?
The Sherman Antitrust Act was the first federal action against monopolies, but it was initially misused against this specific group.
What are labor unions?
Theodore Roosevelt's philosophy on monopolies was that the aim should be not to destroy, but rather to effectively do this in the public interest.
What is regulate and control them?