Progressive Problems
Corrupt public officials who gave people favors for getting votes.
What is a political/party boss/machine.
provided detailed journalistic accounts of political and economic corruption and social hardships caused by the power of big business
What are muckrakers.
This progressive idea allows the public to hold a special election to remove elected officials who are not doing a good job.
What is recall.
This amendment guaranteed the right for women to vote.
What is the nineteenth amendment.
Felt that black people should work to gain equal rights.
Who is Booker T. Washington
Children were not attending schools during the early 1900s due to this.
What is working in factories/child labor
Muckraker Upton Sinclair writes this book aimed for the stomach of America.
What is The Jungle
The progressive idea allows average citizens to introduce legislation directly.
What is the initiative.
This amendment prohibited alcohol.
What is the eighteenth amendment.
Called for immediate equality & access to liberal education for Blacks.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois
Progressive reformers targeted city officials who built corrupt organizations called this.
What are trusts.
This immigrant used pictures to show society the living conditions inside New York Tenements.
Who is Jacob Riis.
Progressives believed in more democracy to help fix America's problems. This reform allows the people to vote on a proposal.
What is a referendum.
This amendment established a federal income tax.
What is the sixteenth amendment.
Promoted a "Square Deal" promising the average citizen fairness, breaking of trusts, regulation of railroads, and pure food and drugs.
These groups fought for better wages, reasonable hours and safer working conditions
What are labor unions.
Promoted a "Square Deal" promising the average citizen fairness, breaking of trusts, regulation of railroads, and pure food and drugs.
Ida Tarbell
This legislation set up standards to ensure quality foods and medicines.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act.
This amendment established the direct election of U.S. Senators.
What is the seventeenth amendment.
advocated for and helped secure passage of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution
Who is Alice Paul
Agency set to oversee the railroad by the federal government to ensure fair deals toward farmers.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act.
This Jacob Riis book, complete with photos, detailed the lives of the immigrant poor.
What is How the Other Half Lives
This act, inspired by the Jungle, mandated regulation of the meat packing industry.
What is the Meat Inspection Act.
establish economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy.
Federal Reserve Act
became what was needed to ratify the 19th Amendment which gave women the right to vote in America.
Tennessee "Perfect 36"