Investigative Journalism
Investigative journalists during the Progressive Era.
What are muckrakers?
A corrupt organization that controls a city's politics.
What is a political machine?
Created the first settlement house in Chicago.
Who was Jane Addams?
Voting rights.
What is suffrage?
This president was known as a "trustbuster".
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
Exposed the meatpacking industry.
Who was Upton Sinclair?
A small, overcrowded apartment for low-income families.
What is a tenement?
Fought to prohibit alcohol by destroying bars with a hatchet.
Who was Carrie Nation?
Allow citizens to vote on taxes.
What are referendums?
A major law passed during Roosevelt's presidency to regulate food and medicine.
What was the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Exposed urban poverty in the slums.
Who was Jacob Riis?
A single business that controls an entire industry.
What is a monopoly?
These two women fought for women's suffrage and established NAWSA.
Who were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
Allow citizens to create laws by signing petitions and voting on issues.
What are initiatives?
This president disappointed progressives by selling conservation land and passing tariffs.
Who was William Howard Taft?
Exposed the Standard Oil Monopoly.
What are laissez-faire policies?
Established the Tuskegee Institute.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
What is a recall?
This president oversaw the passing of the four "Progressive Amendments".
Who was Woodrow Wilson.
A specific piece written by a muckraker exposing the Gilded Age.
What was The Jungle/How the Other Half Lives/History of Standard Oil.
This movement encouraged people to honor God by helping others and reforming society.
What is Social Gospel?
First black man to graduate from Harvard, founding member of the NAACP.
Who was W.E.B. DuBois?
Robert LaFollete's plan to reform his state with an income tax and business regulations.
What was the "Wisconsin Idea"?
What is the Federal Reserve?