Progressive Era Amendments
16
Income tax
Standard Oil
Rockefeller
The Big Boss of New York City
William Tweed
Where the Industrial Revolution began
Number of acres granted
160 acres
Photographed NYC tenements
Jacob Riis
17
Direct election of senators
Philanthropist and anti-union
Carnegie
Easy target for political bosses
New immigrants
First type of industry
Textiles
Number of years required to work the land
5 years
Hull House
Jane Addams
18
Prohibition of alcohol
Steamship empire then added railroads
Vanderbilt
What bosses fixed.
Election results
Home for most factory workers
A tenement
Improvements required the homesteader to build a simple house, grow crops, and
develop the land's resources
Meat packing industry
19
Women's suffrage
Banker in control of several other businesses
J. P. Morgan
What is a political machine?
Peope who control a political party and its activities
Changed the shape of automobile production by using the assembly line.
Henry Ford
What proved land ownership?
Deed of Title
The Trust Buster
Teddy Roosevelt
20
"Lame Duck" Amendment
Founded U.S. Steel after buying Carnegie's steel company
J. P. Morgan
What is a city boss?
The head of a political movement
Typical type of migration during industrialization
Rural to Urban
Who could own land
Anyone over 21 or a head of household
Elizabeth Cady Stanton focused on which topic?
Suffrage