Muckrakers
What is a Muckraker?
A journalist who sought to expose the problems in Gilded Age society.
This progressive president lived on Long Island in Oyster Bay and first became president after the assassination of William McKinley.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This is the meaning of suffrage.
What is the right to vote?
The work of Upton Sinclair prompted Teddy Roosevelt to fight for new laws to make sure American's were eating food that was safe. Name one of these laws.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act or the Meat Inspection Act?
This president set aside millions of acres of wilderness to be preserved as National Parks.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
This Novel by Upton Sinclair led to big changes after he exposed the conditions in the meatpacking industry.
What is The Jungle?
Teddy Roosevelt's vice president, who was elected after Roosevelt left office. He was expected to carry on with Roosevelt's plans.
Who is William H. Taft?
This amendment was added to the Constitution in 1920 and secured the right to vote for women.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The 16th Amendment created a graduated income tax. What does that mean?
The more money you earn, the higher percentage you pay in taxes.
Name one of the reforms during the progressive era that expanded democracy.
What is:
The Secret Ballot, The Referendum, Recall Elections, Direct Election of Senators (17th Amendment), Women's Suffrage (19th Amendment)?
The photos of tenement living taken by this muckraker led to changes in building codes.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This was Teddy Roosevelt's plan to create a better, more equal society.
What is the Square Deal?
This woman was arrested for protesting outside the White House and went on a hunger strike while in jail.
Who is Alice Paul?
The 17th Amendment expanded democracy by doing this.
What is allowing the direct election of senators?
This man assassinated President Garfield because he thought he was owed a job in Garfield's administration.
Who is Charles Guiteau?
This female reporter wrote about John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This man was elected in 1912 and called his platform "The New Freedom".
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This suffragette was president of the National American Women's Suffrage Association.
Who is Carrie Chapman Catt?
The Federal Reserve Act created the Federal Reserve. Name one way the Federal Reserve tries to regulate the economy.
What is:
1. Expand or contract the amount of money in circulation?
2. Raise or lower interest rates?
This corrupt politician led the Tammany Hall political machine in NYC.
Who is William "Boss" Tweed?
This muckraker was a political cartoonist who exposed corruption in the city government in New York City.
Who is Thomas Nast?
Teddy Roosevelt created this party to run for president in 1912.
What is the Progressive or "Bull Moose" Party?
This conference held in upstate New York kickstarted the women's rights movement and the fight for gender equality.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This law led to the end of the spoils system and came about after President Garfield was assassinated by a job seeker.
What is the Pendleton Act/The Civil Service Act?
The secret ballot is also known as this, based on the country it started in.
What is the "Australian Ballot"