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| 334378163 | Jacob Riis | A Danish immigrant, he became a reporter who pointed out the terrible conditions of the tenement houses of the big cities where immigrants lived during the late 1800s. He wrote How The Other Half Lives in 1890. | |
| 334378164 | Lincoln steffens | United States journalist who exposes in 1906 started an era of muckraking journalism (1866-1936), Writing for McClure's Magazine, he criticized the trend of urbanization with a series of articles under the title Shame of the Cities. | |
| 334378165 | Ida Tarbell | A leading muckraker and magazine editor, she exposed the corruption of the oil industry with her 1904 work A History of Standard Oil. | |
| 334378166 | Robert La Follette | Progressive Wisconsin governor who attacked machine politics and pressured the state legislature to require each party to hold a direct primary | |
| 334378167 | Frances Willard | became leader of the WCTU. She worked to educate people about the evils of alcohol. She urged laws banning the sale of liquor. Also worked to outlaw saloons as step towards strengthening democracy. | |
| 334378168 | John Muir | United States naturalist (born in England) who advocated the creation of national parks (1838-1914) | |
| 334378169 | Gifford pinchot | head of the U.S. Forest Servic under Roosevelt, who believed that it was possible to make use of natural resources while conserving them | |
| 334378170 | Upton Sinclair | muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. The book was fiction but based on the things Sinclair had seen. | |
| 334378171 | Initiative | allowed all citizens to introduce a bill into the legislative and required members to take a vote on it | |
| 334378172 | Referendum | a legislative act is referred for final approval to a popular vote by the electorate | |
| 334378173 | Recall | the act of removing an official by petition | |
| 334378174 | Rule of Reason | under the Sherman Act, contracts or conspiracies are illegal only if they constitute an unreasonable restraint of trade or attempt to monopolize. If an agreement promotes competition, it may be legal. If it suppresses or destroys competition, it is unreasonable and illegal. | |
| 334378175 | 17th Amendment | Passed in 1913, this amendment to the Constitution calls for the direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures. | |
| 334378176 | 18th Amendment | Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages | |
| 334378177 | Elkins Act | (1903) gave the Interstate Commerce Commission more power to control railroads from giving preferences to certain customers | |
| 334378178 | Hepburn Act | This 1906 law used the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate the maximum charge that railroads to place on shipping goods. | |
| 334378179 | Muller v. Oregon | 1908 - Supreme Court upheld Oregon state restrictions on the working hours of women as justified by the special state interest in protecting women's health | |
| 334378180 | Meat Inspection Act | 1906 - Laid down binding rules for sanitary meat packing and government inspection of meat products crossing state lines. | |
| 334378181 | Pure Food and Drug Act | the act that prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of impure of falsely labeled food and drugs | |
| 334378182 | Newlands Act | 1902 act authorizing federal funds from public land sales to pay for irrigation and land development projects, mainly in the dry Western states | |
| 334378183 | Dollar Diplomacy | Term used to describe the efforts of the US to further its foreign policy through use of economic power by gaurenteeing loans to foreign countries | |
| 334378184 | Ballinger-Pinchot affair | Taft cabinet members who had fought over conservation efforts and how much effort and money should be put into conserving national resources |
