Unit 8 The Progressive Era

A law enacted in 1906 that established strict cleanliness requirements for meat packers and created a federal meat inspection program.

• Pure Food and Drug Act

• Meat Inspection Act

• Initiative

• Referendum

Journalists who exposed the corrupt side of business and public life in the early 1900s.

• Muckrackers

• Yellow Journalist

• Social Gospel

• Trust-busters

Amendment to the U.S. constitution that called for citizens to directly elect senators.

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

An amendment to the U.S. Constitution that prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages.

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

An amendment to the US Constitution that gave women the right to vote.

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

A law enacted in 1906 to halt the sale of contaminated foods and drugs and to ensure truth in labeling.

• Pure Food and Drug Act

• Meat Inspection Act

• Department of Agriculture

• Referendum

This American settlement activist and reformer created the Hull House to give aid to the poor.

• Jacob Riis

• Jane Addams

• Upton Sinclair

• Ida Tarbell

This muckraker exposed urban poverty and slums through his book How the Other Half Lives.

• Jacob Riis

• Jane Addams

• Upton Sinclair

• Ida Tarbell

This muckraker revealed the unsanitary conditions of slaughterhouses in his book The Jungle which led to government regulation of food industries.

• Jane Addams

• Jacob Riis

• Upton Sinclair

• Ida Tarbell

This muckraker exposed Rockefeller's corrupt business practices in her book The History of Standard Oil.

• Jacob Riis

• Jane Addams

• Upton Sinclair

• Ida Tarbell