Terms
journalists who exposed corruption of big establishments often through sensationalist publications
What is muckkrackers
He was known for the square deal
What is Theodore Roosevelt
A law that requires food producers to label all ingredients in their products.
Pure Food and drug Act
Designed the first plane
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Mass production + identical cars = increased efficiency.
Assembly line
What was the 18th Amendment?
Prohibited transporting/ selling of alcohol
Who ran against Theodore Roosevelt ?
William Taft
A government tool to break-up monopolies
trust-busting
Crusader for womens suffrage
1913 the first __________ tax was implimented
What is : income
What does NAACP stand for?
National Association for the advancement of Colored people
What caused Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft to end their friendship?
The antitrust suit against US steel
Laws in the South that segregated race and required literacy tests.
Jim Crow Laws
2 Positives of Prohibition
What is : less accidents at work
more produce for bread than alcohol
Define the term progressivism
What is a movement of the early 20th Century that one should achieve political and social reform( make a change) through education, wider political participation, and direct government action.
Booker T. Washington known for?
Author of up from slavery, He was a slave for 9 years
Meat inspection Act
What is: prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured sanitary slaughtering and processing of livestock.
speak kindly during the war but have a big and powerful military ready to attack.
W.E.B Du Bois was the founder of what organization?
NAACP
Voters remain anonymous while voting in a democracy
What is secret ballot