Progressive Movement
movement aimed to correct problems and injustices in America.
Muckrakers
journalist that expose bad or corrupt side of business and society.
FDA (Pure Food and Drug Administration)
requires companies to accurately label ingredients contained in food and medicines
Jane Addams
opened a settlement house (Hull House) where poor immigrants could get help on things like housing and English lessons.
Jacob Riis
photojournalist who exposed the poor living conditions of tenement living in his publication, 'How the Other Half Lives.'
Upton Sinclair
muckraker who exposed the poor conditions of meat packing facilities in his book, 'The Jungle' leading to the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Packing Act.
Thomas Nast
muckraker who created political cartoons exposing the corrupt practices of Boss Tweed and his political machine.
Ida Tarbell
muckraker who worked to stop Rockefeller's oil monopoly
Trust company
another name for a monopoly
suffrage
right to vote- term associated with 15th and 19th amendments
Theodore Roosevelt
Progressive president known for breaking up of monopolies and improving work conditions.
Sherman Antitrust Act
1890 law that outlawed trusts (monopolies)
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois
Civil Rights Activist
prohibition
another name for the 18th amendment
16th amendment
amendment creating the income tax
17th amendment
amendment creating a direct election of senators
18th amendment
banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of liquor
19th amendment
amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote