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| 2234365643 | Henry Demarest Lloyd | wrote "Wealth against Commonwealth" which criticized the Standard Oil Company | 0 | |
| 2234366712 | Thorstein Veblen | wrote "the Theory of Leisure Class" which attacked the new rich and said that the leisure class engaged in money making simply to make money ("business") instead of money making to satisfy real societal needs ("industry") | 1 | |
| 2234367467 | Jacob Riis | Danish immigrant and reported for the New York Sun, wrote "How the Other Half Lives" which detailed the dirt, disease, vice, and misery that was prominent in NY slums. Heavily influenced Roosevelt | 2 | |
| 2234367468 | Lincoln Steffens | launched a series of articles in "McClure's" titled "The shame of the Cities" which unmasked corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government | 3 | |
| 2234368492 | Theodore Dreiser | wrote "The Financier" and "The Titan" which slayed promoters and profiteers | 4 | |
| 2234370068 | Ida Tarbell | pioneering journalist who published a devastating but factual expose of the Standard Oil Company | 5 | |
| 2234371096 | Robert M. La Follette | militant progressive Republican who became governor of Wisconsin in 1901. wrestled with lumber and railroad "interests" and shifted the power from crooked corporations to people | 6 | |
| 2234372273 | Hiram Johnson | Republican gov of California who entered office in 1910. prosecuted grafters and broke the grip of the Southern Pacific Railroad on California politics | 7 | |
| 2234372274 | Frances Willard | founder of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) got 1 million women to join the cause against alcohol. The WCTU was joined by the Anti-Saloon League. They were well-organized and well-financed. | 8 | |
| 2234373785 | Florence Kelley | Once a resident at Jane Addams' Hull House, she later became Illinois' first chief factory inspector and one of the nation's leading advocates for improved factory conditions. In 1899, took control of National Consumers League, which motivated female consumers to pressure for laws safeguarding women and children | 9 | |
| 2234375418 | Upton Sinclair | wrote "The Jungle" which was meant to focus attention on the difficulties workers in big meat canning factories face. instead he disgusted the public with descriptions of unsanitary food | 10 | |
| 2234376321 | John Muir | naturalist that believed Hetch Hetchy Valley, located in Yosemite, was a "temple" of nature that should not be violated by people ever | 11 | |
| 2234378030 | Gifford Pinchot | a dedicated conservationist, and head of the federal Division of Forestry. said "wilderness was waste" bc he did not support silly romantic efforts to save trees. he wanted to use the nation's nature intelligently | 12 | |
| 2234378031 | Eugene V. Debs | hero of the Pullman strike (sound familiar?? thats bc it is!) | 13 | |
| 2234379268 | Nelson W Aldrich | Senator who favored high tariffs; added many increases to the Payne-Aldrich bill while it was in the Senate. When passed and signed by Taft, the Payne-Aldrich Bill actually broke Taft's low-tariff campaign promise and angered many. | 14 | |
| 2234380662 | William Howard Taft | president that succeeded Roosevelt, | 15 | |
| 2234380677 | Richard Ballinger | 16 | ||
| 2234381697 | Initiative | progressive reformers favored voters being able to directly propose legislation themselves, thus bypassing the boss-bought state legislatures | 17 | |
| 2234382877 | Referendum | a device that would place laws on the ballot for final approval by the people, esp. laws that had been railroaded through a compliant legislature by free-spending agents of big business | 18 | |
| 2234382878 | Recall | allowed people to remove elected officials, particularly those bribed by bosses or lobbyists | 19 | |
| 2234384336 | Conservation | an effort to stop the meaningless squander of valuable natural resources | 20 | |
| 2234385257 | Preservationism | an attempt to preserve America's wilderness, esp the western landscape, aka the frontier, since it played a huge part in shaping America's character | 21 | |
| 2234385258 | "rule of reason" | 22 | ||
| 2234386725 | muckrackers | journalists who went out of their way to expose scandals and reveal the truth | 23 | |
| 2234388181 | Seventeenth Amendment | established the direct election of U.S. senators | 24 | |
| 2234388182 | Eighteenth Amendment | Prohibition | 25 | |
| 2234390391 | Elkins Act | fines would be imposed on railroads that gave rebates and on the shippers that accepted them | 26 | |
| 2234392057 | Hepburn Act | free passes, which often included bribery, were restricted by this act. Interstate Commerce Commission expanded to include express companies, sleeping-car companies, and pipelines. The commission would be allowed to nullify existing rates and stipulate maximum rates if shippers complained | 27 | |
| 2234393024 | Northern securities case | Theodore Roosevelt challenged the Northern Securities Company, organized by J.P Morgan. The railroad promoters appealed to the supreme court, but the supreme court backed Roosevelt's antitrust suit and dissolved the company | 28 | |
| 2234394217 | Women's Trade Union League | an organization with which female activists hoped to keep children out of mills and sweatshops, attack tuberculosis in airless tenements, win pensions for mothers w/ dependent children, and to make sure only safe food is put onto families' tables | 29 | |
| 2234395905 | Muller v. Oregon | court case in which Louis D. Brandeis argued that laws protecting women from harsh working conditions should be recognized by the supreme court | 30 | |
| 2234397097 | Lochner v. New York | case in which the supreme court invalidated a NY law establishing 10 hr days. later became a law in 1917 thx to the judiciary court | 31 | |
| 2234397098 | Triangle Shirtwaist fire | factory fire that killed 146 workers, mostly immigrant women, bc laws regulating factories were not being enforced by the company. Due to public pressure, NY legislature passed stricter laws enforcing regulations. | 32 | |
| 2234398227 | The Jungle | book by Upton Sinclair, published in 1906, described in detail the filth, disease, and putrefaction in Chicago's gross slaughterhouses | 33 | |
| 2234398228 | Pure Food and Drug Act | designed to keep the mislabeling of food and drugs | 34 | |
| 2234399042 | Newlands Act | passed in 1902, allowed the federal government to collect $$$ from the sale of public lands in the west in order to fund the development of irrigation projects | 35 | |
| 2234400440 | Sierra Club | an environmental organization founded by John Muir that hoped to spread conservationist and preservationist efforts | 36 | |
| 2234400441 | Yosemite National Park | rly big national park in California where Hetch Hetchy Valley is located. there was quite a stir when the federal gov. approved San Francisco's plan to turn the valley into a dam | 37 | |
| 2234401322 | Dollar diplomacy | President Taft encouraged a policy called "Dollar Diplomacy" where Americans invested in foreign countries to gain power. | 38 | |
| 2234403910 | New Nationalism | this bel | 39 | |
| 2234403911 | Ballinger-Pinchot affair | Sec. of Interior Richard Ballinger said that public lands in Wyoming, Montana, and Alaska would be open for development, but Pinchot, a preservationist, disagreed. Taft sided with Ballinger and fired Pinchot. This was an unpopular move. | 40 | |
| 2234405150 | Old Guard | 41 |
