Muckrakers
He wrote The Shame of the Cities a book on political corruption.
Who was Lincoln Steffans?
A period of time in which the United States population and Government pushed through social change to improve lives for Americans on the social and economic fringes.
What was Progressivism?
City where Progressives first established Juvenile courts instead of prosecuting children as adults.
What is Denver?
He was known as the "Trust Buster"
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
This period of time followed the Civil War.
What was Reconstruction?
He wrote the Jungle about the Chicago Meat Packing Plants.
Who was Upton Sinclair?
Investigative Journalists that wrote about and exposed corruption?
Who were muckrakers?
Urban and middle class.
He was the President who "busted" the most trusts
Who is William Howard Taft?
This strike occurred when Andrew Carnegie was out of the country - conveniently.
What was the Homestead strike?
She wrote The History of Standard Oil to reveal to the public the unethical business practices of Rockefeller and his companies.
Who was Ida Tarbell?
Term for unsafe, dense and sometimes unsanitary housing conditions, especially in large cities.
What are tenements?
Bituminous and Anthracite are two types of this.
What is coal?
Under this President, legislation was passed to end government inefficiency and corruption - like the Federal Reserve Act
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
This event in Colorado saw the death of 25 miners, also women and children at the hands of the national guard.
What is the Ludlow Massacre?
She was an investigative Journalist who wrote about the injustice of lynching in the nation, especially the South.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
Suffragettes wanted this...
Who can we thank for the weekend?
What are Labor Unions?
Dorthea Dix revolutionized the treatment of persons institutionalized in these facilities?
What are mental institutions and prisons?
This disaster encouraged the passage of laws intended to protect garment workers.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
He was a photographer who published a book about tenements and poverty in the cities entitled How the Other Half LIves
Who is Jacob Riis?
A social movement that believed that Christianity and Social Reform should go together.
What was the Social Gospel?
This case determined that women could not work as long as men because they were delicate and not as strong - leads to discrimination.
What is Muller v Oregon?
She opened Hull House in Chicago to help immigrants and women and children..
Who was Jane Addams?
This strike was so violent that over 100 people died after rioting and trains were uncoupled so they couldn't be used.
What was the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?