A | B |
Muckrakers | journalists who exposed social evils |
Ida Tarbell | wrote The History of Standard Oil |
Upton Sinclair | wrote The Jungle |
Jacob Riis | wrote about the urban poor, immigrants |
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire | women worked in poor factory conditions, died in fire |
Jane Addams | founder of Hull House, settlement house |
16th amendment | graduated income tax |
Carry Nation | used hatchet to bust up kegs of alcohol |
Anthracite Coal Strike | T. Roosevelt interceded on behalf of miners |
Northern Securities v. US, 1904 | the first trust 'busted' by T. Roosevelt |
Payne Aldrich Tariff | tax on imported goods |
Bull Moose Party | nominated T. Roosevelt for president 1912 |
Federal Reserve Act | established 12 banks across the US |
Plessy v. Ferguson | separate but equal' principle for public facilities |
Booker T. Washington | African Americans should work hard |
W.E.B. DuBois | African Americans needed vote and education |
Great Migration | African Americans moving north 1900-1920 |
Atlanta Compromise | speech given by Booker T. Washington |
NAACP | founded by WEB DuBois, to achieve African American equality |
disenfranchisement | literacy test, grandfather clauses, poll tax |
skyscrapers | made possible by steel |
sewing machine | invented by E. Howe 1846, gave women jobs |
The Jungle | led to the passage of Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act |
Henry Ford | assembly line, $5 a day, automobiles |
mail order catalogs | most common way of purchasing goods |