Adopted in 1919, this amendment made the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages

an illegal act.

The constitutional amendment

guaranteeing the right to vote regardless of sex; this right cannot

be denied by any state or federal government.

Founder of Hull House, in Chicago, a social

settlement house for immigrants. She also

supported women’s right to vote and won a Nobel

Prize Peace Prize in 1931.

Late 19th-century movement which

supported hiring of government employees based on merit rather

than on political patronage.

The preservation of natural resources.

Book by Upton Sinclair which exposed the abuses of the meat packing industry.

Governor of Wisconsin who was a progressive reformer. During his

administration, the state of Wisconsin passed laws

to regulate railroads, lobbying and banking.

A law passed in 1906, after Congress’ reaction to Upton Sinclair’s vivid description of the meat packing industry in Chicago with his novel, The

Jungle. The act authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to inspect all meat products

shipped in interstate commerce.

Journalists who tried to improve society through

their investigative reporting and photography by

exposing health conditions that were hazardous in

workplaces, corruption in government, and social

problems of overcrowding in urban centers.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; an

organization whose goal is to gain equal rights for

African Americans.

A political cartoonist who satirical caricatures of the

Tammany Hall political machine that controlled New York City in the 1800’s helped to bring about the downfall of

William (Boss) Tweed, its corrupt leader.

Head of the US Forest Service during the Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, he

exemplified TR’s direction in conservation by supporting

scientific management of the forests and the environment, a balance between protecting the

land and using it wisely.

Reform effort, generally centered in urban areas and begun in the early 1900’s,

whose aims included returning control of the

government to the people, restoring economic

opportunities, and correcting injustices in American life.

A term meaning to not allow; used in

relationship to the prevention of the

manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States after the passage of the 18th Amendment in 1919.

Approved in 1906, it was an act forbidding the

manufacture and sale of dishonestly labeled

products.

An immigrant who became a muckraker photographer

and journalist exposing the poor conditions found in

slums and tenements. He wrote How the Other Half

Lives, and was committed to eliminating slums in New

York City.

Building in a poor and/or ethnic neighborhood offering

social services and educational and recreational

activities. An example is Hull House in Chicago,

established in 1889 by Jane Addams.

Approved in 1890, this act prohibited

monopolies by declaring illegal combinations of business that were “in

restraint of trade or commerce.”

As a muckraker and progressive he wrote The

Jungle, exposing the unsanitary conditions in the

Chicago meat packing industry around 1906. His book led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.

Individuals who protest the human condition or

the rights of individuals in society.

A primary example would be the work of

Jane Addams.

A muckraker who wrote the History of

the Standard Oil Company (1903),

which exposed the ruthless practices of

Standard Oil.