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Progressive Era
Mrs. Brown's Progressive Era
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Journalist who investigate and writes about wrong doing and corruption. | Muckraker |
| Author of "The Jungle" , exposing the unsanitary meat packing industry. | Upton Sinclair |
| This book led to the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act | The Jungle |
| Author of "How The Other Half Lives", showing people living in poverty, bad living conditions, and disease in cities. His book led to city building codes. | Jacob Riis |
| Created political cartoons about Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed, Showing that city governments were corrupt and needed to be fixed. | Thomas Nast |
| Muckraker who exposed Standard Oils ruthless tactics like forcing others out of business and creating a monopoly. | Ida Tarbell |
| Author of "The Shame of Cities", exposing city leaders who were corrupt, took bribes, and broke laws. | Lincoln Steffens |
| Author of "The Octopus", which said railroads had a stranglehold on Farmers. | Frank Norris |
| The person who founded the Hull House, which helped immigrants assimilate into American society | Jane Addams |
| The person who founded the NAACP to help African Americans gain civil rights | W.E.B. DuBois |
| This person believed that African Americans would achieve civil rights by getting an education and job training | Booker T. Washington |
| This person fought to stop lynching in the south | Ida B. Wells |
| This ensures that people are able to directly elect Senators | 17th Amendment |
| President who was a trust-buster, started National Parks, and proposed the Square Deal. | Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt |
| President who continued Roosevelt's policies and started Dollar Diplomacy | William H. Taft |
| Proposed the U.S. would invest American money in foreign countries to create allies and make easy money- it failed. | Dollar Diplomacy |
| This gave the Government the right to tax a person's income - INCOME TAX | 16th Amendment |
| President when WWI started | Woodrow Wilson |
| A Convention that helped the women's suffrage movement | Seneca Falls |
| Said no one could be denied the right to vote based on sex. Gave WOMEN the right to vote. | 19th Amendment |
| Set standards for cleanliness and federal inspection of Meat Packing Plants | Meat Inspection Act |
| This made it mandatory for companies to put labels on foods so that people would know what they are consuming | Pure Food and Drug Act |
| This said that no one could work under the age of 16 legally | Child Labor Act |
| This was passed to reform banking, it set rules on interest rates and how much money banks could loan. | Federal Reserve Act |
| This made Monopolies and Trusts illegal | Clayton Anti-trust Act |
| Roosevelt's policy based on the 3 C's: Control Corporations, Consumer Protection, and Conservation. | Square Deal |
| Formed to regulate railroad rates. | Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) |
| Another word for belonging to a city or town | Municipal |
| Agency that manages National Parks, Monuments, and historic properties. | National Park Service |
| What helps to preserve and protect wildlife and the environment | Conservation |
| Guarantees workers rights to fair, safe and healthy working conditions. | Department of Labor |
| Unsafe working conditions here led to many women's deaths and made safe working conditions an important issue in the U.S. | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory |
| Claimed that it was a Christian's moral responsibility to help the poor and less fortunate | Social Gospel |
| This allows voters to propose legislation to congress | Initiative |
| This allows citizen's to directly vote on legislation | Referendum |
| This allows voters to remove an elected official from office | Recall |
| She was the leader of the Women's Suffrage Movement | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| She worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to achieve women's right to vote in the Women's Suffrage Movement | Susan B. Anthony |
| The term for women who fought for her right to vote | Suffragetts |
| A radical progressive who fought for Temperance because her brother was an alcoholic | Francis Willard |
| The movement to ban alcohol - PROHIBITION | Temperance Movement |
| When government positions were given to friends or people who helped get politicians elected | Spoils System |
| This was aimed to correct the Spoils System by making sure people are qualified to work in government positions | Civil Service Reform |
| The Political Boss in charge of Tammany Hall | William "Boss" Tweed |
| The law that created Prohibition - banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol. | 18th Amendment |
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