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| progressives | Grassroots movement to reform political, social, and economic problems of the US. |
| David G. Phillips | Muckraker who exposed the corruption in the United States Senate |
| muckraker | Investigative journalists who felt it was their duty to make the public aware of social problems. Muckrakers sought to clean up capitalism by shining democratic restraints on greed and corruption. |
| Ida Tarbell | Muckraker who exposed the corruption of Standard Oil Company |
| Lincoln Steffens | Muckraker who exposed the corruption of city governments with his book, Shame of the Cities. |
| Ray Stannard Baker | Muckraker who exposed the treatment of black Americans in cities across America. |
| Women's Christian Temperance Union q | The leading progressive organization that advocated the prohibition of alcohol. |
| Recall | Progressive reform measure that would allow the people to recall or remove an elected official BEFORE their term was finished if that elected official was found to be inept or corrupt. |
| Seventeenth Amendment | Progressive reform measure that allowed people to elect their state senators instead of having senators be appointed. |
| Muller v. Oregon | Supreme Court Case in which it was found that it was constitutional to provide special rules and protections to women on the job. |
| Lochner v. New York | Supreme court ruled that it was unconstitutional to LIMIT the work day. |
| Square Deal | Theodore's Roosevelt's progressive campaign platform that called for control of the corporations, consumer protections, end to railroad rebates, and control of corporations. . |
| Elkins and Hepburn Act | Continued the process to regulate the railroads. |
| The Jungle | Written by Upton Sinclair. The book exposed the unsanitary conditions in which meat was slaughtered and the danger to Americans everywhere that consumed such meat. |
| Meat Inspection Act | Law that was passed after the book, The Jungle was published. |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | Law passed to protect consumers from tainted, dangerous, and purposely mislabeled medicine and food. |
| Jack London | Author of Call of the Wild, a book that outlined the beauty and destruction of nature by the advancing settlement of man. |
| Dollar Diplomacy | Foreign policy of Howard Taft. Dollar Diplomacy set about to control Latin America not through military force but American loans. |
| Jacob Riis | Author of "How the Other half Lives" which described the terrible condition of living in the slums. |
| Thorstein Veblen | Author who exposed the terrible greed or conspicuous consumption of the very wealthy. Veblen once described the million dollar party thrown for a wealthy socialite's ...dog! |
