| A | B |
|---|
| Upton Sinclair | wrote the book "The Jungle" |
| The Jungle | Book that described the sickening conditions of the meat packing industry |
| Theodore Roosevelt | President who wanted to preserve the environment and clean up the government |
| Square Deal | President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt's programs to protect the environment and the common people against Big Business |
| Meat Inspecting Act | law that dictated strick cleanliness requirement for meat packers and created the program of federal meat inspection |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicine and called for truth labeling |
| conservation | the planned management of natural resources involving the protection of some wilderness areas and developing others for the common good (national parks) |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, an organization that worked for equal rights among races |
| prohibition | banned the sale, use and consumption of alchohol in the U.S. |
| Federal Reserve Commission | controls the U.S. money supply and created a national banking system |
| 19th Amendment | gave women the right to vote |
| muckraker | name given to journalists who exposed the corrupt side of business and politics in the early 1900s |
| recall | process for removing a public official from office by a vote of the people |
| Susan B. Anthony | leader of the women suffrage movement |
| 17th Amendment | legislation that stated U.S. senators should be elected directly by the people |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| Ida Tarbell | wrote a book about Standard Oil |
| Jacob Riis | took photographs and wrote a book about tenement living |
| Lewis Hine | took photographs and wrote articles about child labor |
| Boss Tweed | Political boss of New York City |
| 18th Amendment | prohibited the sale, manufacture or transportation of alcohol |
| Prohibition | 18th Amendment |
| Jane Addams | Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago |
