Key terms, people, and events from Chapter 28 of the 13th edition of the American Pageant.
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| 8168823571 | Jacob Riis | Author of How The Other Half Lives, about poor living conditions in cities | 0 | |
| 8168823575 | Upton Sinclair | Was the author of the sensational novel, The Jungle, published in 1906. His intention was to describe the conditions of canning factory workers. Instead, Americans were disgusted by his descriptions of dirty food production. His book influenced consumers to demand safer canned products and led to the Meat Inspection Act and then the Pure Food and Drug Act. | 1 | |
| 8168823576 | Florence Kelly | Chief factory inspector in IL, Founded National Consumers League | 2 | |
| 8172133854 | Henry Demarest Lloyd | He wrote the book Wealth Against Commonwealth in 1894. It was part of the progressive movement and the book's purpose was to show the wrongs in the monopoly of the Standard Oil Company | 3 | |
| 8172146520 | Ida Tarbell | Was a "muckraker" who wrote the history of the Standard Oil Company, the "Mother of Trusts." The articles blasted Standard Oil for using ruthless tactics to drive competition out of business. | 4 | |
| 8172176069 | Robert La Follette | He was the governor of Wisconsin, nicknamed "Fighting Bob," and was a progressive Republican leader. His "Wisconsin Idea" was the model for state progressive governments. | 5 | |
| 8172210596 | Hiram Johnson | Was a progressive reformer of the early 1900s. He was elected the Republican governor of California in 1910, and helped to put an end to trusts. He put an end to the power that the Southern Pacific Railroad had over politics. | 6 | |
| 8172218870 | Charles Evans Hughes | Was a reforming Republican governor of New York, who gained fame as an investigator of malpractices by gas and insurance companies and by the coal trust. He later ran against Wilson in the 1916 election. | 7 |
