Jaded Journalists
Ch-ch-ch-changes
19
Fight Against Discrimination
The Bull-Moose and the Professor
100

This man created the name "muckrakers" because he thought they only looked at the bad side of things.

Who is President Roosevelt?

100

The Social Gospel was based around this book and its teachings of justice and charity.

What is the Bible?

100

The 19th amendment did this.

What is give women the right to vote?

100

This process turned newly-arrived immigrants into Americans through classes on English, American clothing, and American customs.

What is "Americanization"?

100

This was Roosevelt's biggest goal as President.

What is trustbusting (or breaking up monopolies)?

200

This muckraker was known for writing "The Jungle" (a book about the conditions in a meatpacking plant).

Who is Upton Sinclair?

200

Jane Addams was a leading figure in the creation of this type of house that was made to provide social services for the urban poor.

What are settlement houses?

200

This woman created the NACW and campaigned against lynchings.

Who is Ida B. Wells?

200

The idea of gradual progress toward racial equality was popularized by this founder of the Tuskagee Institute.

Who is Booker T. Washington?

200

This President helped create the "Federal Trade Commission" which monitored business practices that might turn a company into a monopoly.

Who is President Wilson?

300

Jacob Riis, a photojournalist, was concerned with the living conditions of the urban poor and published this book.

What is "How the Other Half Lives"?

300

Recalls, reforms and other election reforms were created for this reason.

What is to reduce corruption in the government? (Or to give people a bigger say in government?)

300

This is the reason that many women led the prohibition movement.

What is it would make women and children safer in the home?

300

The Anti-Defamation League was created in 1912 to defend this group against verbal and physical attacks.

Who are the Jewish people?

300

This was the purpose of the square deal.

What is to not give the wealthy an unfair advantage over small buisness owners and the poor?

400

This woman revealed the unsavory tactics of John D. Rockerfeller and other monopolists.

Who is Ida Tarbell?

400

Progressives' major belief was this.

What is that honest government and new ideas could lead to social justice and a better society?

400

In its tactics, NAWSA, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, differed from the NWP in this way.

What is it was more conservative and slow-moving in its tactics?
400

This was the purpose of Mexican-American "mutualistas".

What is to provide loans and legal assistance to fellow Mexican-Americans?

400

The 16th amendment allowed the President to do this.

What is to pass an income tax?

500

This journalist was best known for revealing corruption in Philadelphia.

Who is Lincoln Steffens?

500

City mayors were replaced with five-person panels for THIS reason.

What is to reduce the amount that one person was responsible for?

500

The NWP, known for protests and hunger strikes, was created by this woman.

Who is Alice Paul?

500

W.E.B. DuBois wanted immediate equality between the races and believed that this exceptional group would lead African-Americans to equality, properly educated.

What is the talented 10th?

500

Wilson's "New Freedom" and Roosevelt's "New Nationalism" both focused on doing this.

What is to control big business and give small business owners a chance?