Im cooked

Social Gospel

A movement which emphasized charity and social responsibility - used christian faith as a call to help their communities

Muckrakers

Journalists who searched for corruption in politics and big business

16th Amendment

Graduated income tax

17th Amendment

people directly elect their senators

18th Amendment

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages

19th Amendment (1920)

Women gain the right to vote

Lincon Steffens Muckraker

Gov't corruption, wrote "Shame of the cities"

John Spargo

Wrote, The Bitter Cry of the Children in 1906 which was about abuses of child labor.

Eugene V. Debs

Workers Rights activist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, president of the american railroad assioation

Upton Sinclair

the jungle - meat packaging/distribution book

Ida Tarbell

Exposed the corruption of the oil industry with her book A History of Standard Oil - monopolies

Jacob Riis

Danish immigrant reporter who pointed out the terrible conditions of the tenement houses of the big cities where immigrants lived. wrote How The Other Half Lives in 1890.

Jane Addams

the founder of Hull House and settlement house movement, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes

Alice Paul

Women's Rights - Head of National Woman's party that campaigned for an equal rights amendment to the Constitution.

Carrie A. Nation

Temperance Movement - ran into bars and smashed stuff with a hatchet (ax)

Plessy vs. Ferguson

ruled that "separate but equal" (segregration) facilities for blacks/whites were equal

Booker T Washingtion

Black right activist - accepted segregation and encouraged blacks to get jobs at lower levels (HVAC type jobs) - born in slavery before civil war

Tuskgee Institute

a vocational (job/career) school created by Booker T. Washington which allowed blacks to learn how to work in a specific career

Atlanta compromise speech

speech made by Booker T. Washington and the International Cotton exposition which called for blacks to become proficient in agriculture, mechanics, and commerce, and for whites to trust blacks and provide opportunities for them to be successful economically.

W.E.B. Dubois

1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910 - hated booker washington's approach

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

editor of black newspaper and spoke out against violence, wrote about lynching

Teddy Roosevelt

26th President, from 1901-1909, passed two acts that purified meat, took over in 1901 when McKinley was shot, Went after trusts - used sherman anti-trust act

Trust Busting

Government activities aimed at breaking up monopolies and trusts. - sherman anti-trust act

Meat Packaging Scandal

The Jungle Book- exposed how gross and unregulated meat packaging was

Meat Safety Act

Regulated meat packaging and shipping

Election of 1912

Republican's votes split between Taft and Roosevelt, the Democrats stayed together and elected Wilson.

William H. Taft

27th US president, took over presidency after theodore Roosevelt, strengthened ICC, trust buster

Woodrow Wilson

President of the United States (1913-1921) and the leading figure at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. "new freedom program" for trusts

Clayton Antitrust Act

1914 law that strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act