Muckrakers
This journalist exposed unfair practices of Standard Oil.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This movement fought for women’s right to vote.
What is the Women’s Suffrage Movement?
This amendment allowed citizens, not state legislatures, to elect U.S. senators directly.
What is 17th Amendment?
These groups organized workers to demand better wages and working conditions.
What are Labor Unions?
This law required accurate food labeling and banned harmful drugs.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This writer’s novel The Jungle revealed unsanitary conditions in meatpacking plants.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This social movement sought to reduce or eliminate the use of alcohol.
What is the Temperance Movement?
This reform introduced private voting to reduce corruption and voter intimidation.
What is the Secret (Australian) Ballot?
These laws limited or banned the employment of children in dangerous or full-time jobs.
What are Child Labor Laws?
This law required federal inspection of meatpacking plants.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
This photographer’s book and research showed poverty in city slums.
Who is Jacob Riis?
These community centers helped immigrants and the poor.
What are Settlement Houses?
These local officials were hired to manage city operations and reduce political machine corruption.
Who are City Managers?
These federal laws broke up monopolies and trusts that limited competition.
What are the Antitrust Acts (like the Sherman or Clayton Acts)?
These overcrowded city apartment buildings were reformed to improve sanitation and safety.
What are Tenement Houses?
This term described journalists who exposed corruption and social problems.
What are Muckrakers?
This reform aimed to make schooling more available and required
What is Education Reform?
These tests were created to ensure government jobs were earned by skill, not political connections.
What are Civil Service Exams?
This strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, was known for the slogan “Bread and Roses.”
What is the Lawrence Textile Strike?
The novel The Jungle helped inspire this type of reform.
What is food and consumer safety reform?
This is the reason that Muckrakers did what they did...
What is educating the public on issues that are hidden by the government?
This suffragist argued that “We the People” in the Constitution includes women.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
This was the "CEO of the City"
What are City Managers?
This is how long the Lawrence Textile Strike lasted
What is 9 weeks?
Used photography and writing to expose poor living conditions in NYC tenements
Who is Jacob Riis?