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Progressive Period
The Age of Reform
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Early 1900's muckraker who exposed social and political evils in the U.S. with his novel "How The Other Half Lives"; exposed the poor conditions of the poor tenements in NYC and Hell's Kitchen. | Jacob Riis |
| The political orientation of those who favor progress toward better conditions in government and society. | Progressivism |
| Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public. | Muckrakers |
| Exposed the unfair practices of big business. Wrote articles about the Standard Oil Company-these articles led to demands for more controls on trusts. | Ida Tarbell |
| Muckracker who wrote about vote stealing and political machines in The Shame of Cities. | Lincoln Steffens |
| Three term governor of Wisconsin, then U.S. Senator in 1906, he was one of the earliest proponents of Progressive Reform. | Robert LaFollette |
| Allowed Americans to vote directly for U.S Senators. | Seventeenth Amendment |
| Allowed all citizens to introduce a bill into the legislative and required members to take a vote on it. | Initiative |
| The practice of letting voters accept or reject measures proposed by the legislature. | Referendum |
| The act of removing an official by petition. | Recall |
| A law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages. | Prohibition |
| Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages. | Eighteenth Amendment |
| Prohibitionist; known for attacking saloons with her hatchet/ vandalism. | Carry A. Nation |
| Leader of woman suffrage movement, who helped to define the movement's goals and beliefs and to lead its actions. | Susan B. Anthony |
| President from 1901-1909; Big Stick diplomacy (military force); Roosevelt Corollary; Nobel Prize for Russo-Japan war; Bull Moose party-New Nationalism; fought trusts, aided Progressive reforms, built Panama Canal; increased US influence overseas. | Theodore Roosevelt |
| President Theodore Roosevelt's program of progressive reforms designed to protect the common people against big business. | Square Deal |
| Muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. The book was fiction but based on the things Sinclair had seen. | Upton Sinclair |
| 1906 - Laid down binding rules for sanitary meat packing and government inspection of meat products crossing state lines. | Meat Inspection Act |
| The act that prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of impure of falsely labeled food and drugs. | Pure Food and Drug Act |
| Authorized Congress to enact a national income tax. | Sixteenth Amendment |
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