Muckrakers
Terms
Events
People
Acts
100

This person stood up for womens rights. 

Charolette Perkins Gilman

100

someone who owns or manages a large, successful business or company.

Captain of Industry

100

A horrible fire where a lot of people died. 

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

100

this person created the lightbulb

Thomas Edison

100

What was the drug act?

an act that prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce

200

This person stood up for women in mental assylums

Nellie Bly

200

successful industrialists whose business practices were often considered ruthless or unethical

Robber Barron

200

A bloody confrontation where gaurds killed people. 

Homestead Strike

200

this person guided force behind the creation and development of the Standard Oil Company

John D. Rockefeller

200

What was the sherman antitrust act? 

regulations that encourage competition by limiting the market power of any particular firm

300

This person stood up against child labor

Lewis Hine

300

a person who supports the idea of nativism

Nativist

300

A railroad strike and boycott. 

Pullman Strike

300

this person helped build the formidable American steel industry

Andrew Carnegie

300

What was the meat nspection act? 

an act that prevented adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.

400

This person stood up against monopolies

Ida Tarbell

400

the process of making an area more urban

Urbanization

400

A bombing that happened at a labor demonstration

Haymarket Strike

400

this person was an American newspaper reporter, social reformer, and photographer who, with his book How the Other Half Lives (1890), shocked the conscience of his readers with factual descriptions of slum conditions in New York City

Jacob Riis

400

what was the chinese exclution act?

 a U.S. federal law that suspended the immigration of Chinese laborers for ten years in 1882 and was later extended to become permanent in 1902

500

This person stood up against the long harsh working conditions

Upton Sinclair

500

a time of great political corruption and wealth inequality in the late 1800s

Gilded Age

500

The culmination of the gilded age

Industrial revolution

500

this person stole an amount estimated by an aldermen's committee in 1877 at between $25 million and $45 million from New York City taxpayers from political corruption, but later estimates ranged as high as $200 million (equivalent to $5 billion in 2023)

Boss Tweed

500

what was the Interstate Commerce Act?

an act to regulate railroad rates