Progressive Era Review

A political organization that controls elections by awarding jobs and other favors in exchange for votes.

• Tenement house

• Political Machines

• Ida Tarbell

• Upton Sinclair

Muckraker who wrote "The Jungle," which exposed problems in the US meat packing industry.

• Ida Tarbell

• Upton Sinclair

• Francis Willard

• W.E.B. DuBois

1906 law that made rules for sanitary meat packing and a government rating system for meat quality.

• Meat Inspection Act

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

One of the founders of the NAACP. He fought for immediate implementation of African American rights.

• Ida B. Wells

• Upton Sinclair

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

This amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages.

• 16th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

This 1890 law by the Congress was the first federal law to limit the power of monopolies.

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Pure Food and Drug Act

• Federal Reserve Act

She became one of the leading figures of the women's suffrage movement.

• Ida B. Wells

• Jane Addams

• Susan B. Anthony

• Ida Tarbell

1African-American journalist who led the fight against lynching.

• Ida B. Wells

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Upton Sinclair

He took pictures of tenements and overcrowded cities to expose the poor living and working conditions of immigrants. Published the book "How the Other Half Lives"

• Upton Sinclair

• Jacob Riis

• Thomas Nast

• John D. Rockefeller

A system of appointing government employees on the basis of competitive examinations, rather than by political patronage

• Political Machines

• Spoils System

• Civil Service Exam

• Corruption