Pruitt Chapter 6 Word Scramble
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Term | Description |
"The Jungle" | A book written by muckraker Upton Sinclair that told about conditions in the meatpacking plants of Chicago |
The Meat Inspection Act | Allowed government inspectors to check meat to make sure it was safe to eat |
The Pure Food and Drug Act | Helped make food and medicine safer by requiring companies to tell the truth about their products |
Progressives | Reformers who worked to stop unfair practices by businesses and to improve the way in which government worked |
Muckrakers | Progressives who used their written work to inform others of situations and worked for reforms |
Yellow Journalism | Exaggerated or False reporting to sell newspapers |
Isolationism | A country decides to remain neutral and let countries handle their own issues |
Two main Powers of WWI | Central and Allied Powers |
Treaty of Versailles | Officially ended WWI, heavily punished Germany in its role in WWI and created the League of Nations |
League of Nations | International organization formed to prevent future world wars |
Alliances | An agreement among nations to defend one another |
World War I | War among the Central and Allied Powers beginning in 1914 |
Panama Canal | A canal across the Isthmus of Panama that offered the hope of faster, safer shipping for the U.S. |
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