Progressive Era

Muckraker

• A person who brings attention to corruption and raise awareness of social injustices

• A musical about diseases

• A politician who fought for civil rights

• A law that granted the United States government the power to inspect meat before it was sold to consumers.

A law that granted the United States government the power to inspect meat before it was sold to consumers.

• The Meat Inspection Act (1906)

• Inspection Powers Agency (1989)

• Food and Drug Agency (1906)

• Sherman Antitrust Act (1897)

Prevented the manufacture, sale, or transportation of food or medicine that was poisonous, contaminated or mislabeled.

• Tariff Act

• The Underwood Tariff Act (1913)

• The Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)

• The Federal Reserve Act (1913)

16th Amendment

• All citizens are required to pay 27% in taxes

• People are jailed based upon their annual income.

• Established a gradual income tax in America.

• The citizens of a state elect can now choose their leaders by randomly choosing one from a bowl

17th Amendment

• Direct election of Senators.

• Allowed elections to be held in May

• Women's suffrage

• People are taxed based upon their annual income.

18th Amendment

• Responsible for protecting pigs

• Banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol in the United States.

• The law also exempted labor unions from growing trees

• Freedom of speech and religion

19th Amendment

• The citizens of a state elect United States Senators from a bowl of paper

• A law that outlawed specific business practices used by monopolies, including price discrimination.

• A national law that allowed women to vote in local, state, and federal elections.

• The law also exempted labor unions from growing trees

The first legislative act that was created to end monopolies and regulate businesses.

• The Federal Reserve Act (1913)

• Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (1914)

• The Mann-Elkins Act (1910)

• The Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)

Progressivism

• An illegal payment of money made in return for a favor or service.

• The political orientation of those who favor progress towards better conditions in government and society.

• A group of individuals that control the how to plan parties

• The need to push immigrants out of the fish markets

Jacob Riis was a photographer who also wrote-

• How the other half lives

• Bitter cry of children

• Rockefeller and oil

• Immigration laws