25th president responsible for Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, and the Annexation of Hawaii, imperialism. Is assassinated by an anarchist

(1908-1912), was endorsed by Roosevelt because he pledged to carry on progressive program, then he didn't appoint any progressives to the cabinet.

28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership, created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act, progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women's suffrage (reluctantly), Treaty of Versailles, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations (but failed to win U.S. ratification), won Nobel Peace Prize

United States journalist who exposes in 1906 started an era of muckraking journalism (1866-1936), Writing for McClure's Magazine, he criticized the trend of urbanization with a series of articles under the title Shame of the Cities.

A Danish immigrant, he became a reporter who pointed out the terrible conditions of the tenement houses of the big cities where immigrants lived during the late 1800s. He wrote How The Other Half Lives in 1890.

A leading muckraker and magazine editor, they exposed the corruption of the oil industry with their 1904 work A History of Standard Oil.

muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. The book was fiction but based on the things he had seen. Wanted to improve working conditions.

Progressive Wisconsin Senator and Governor. Staunch supporter of the Progressive movement, and vocal opponent of railroad trusts, Wisconsin Idea

Prominent black American, born into slavery, who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society, was head of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881. His book "Up from Slavery."

1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910

African American farmer and food scientist. His research improved farming in the South by developing new products using peanuts.

Became leader of the WCTU. She worked to educate people about the evils of alcohol. She urged laws banning the sale of liquor. Also worked to outlaw saloons as step towards strengthening democracy.

created sensation by raiding saloons + smashing barrels of beer with a hatchet

Head of the National Woman's party that campaigned for an equal rights amendment to the Constitution. She opposed legislation protecting women workers because such laws implied women's inferiority.

(1859-1947) A suffragette who was president of the National Women's Suffrage Association, and founder of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. Instrumental in obtaining passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.

an early leader in the civil rights movement. She documented the extent of lynching in the United States, and was also active in the women's rights movement and the women's suffrage movement.

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages

Women gain the right to vote

Direct election of senators

Allows the federal government to collect income tax

Women gain the right to vote

procedure whereby voters can remove an elected official from office

A procedure by which voters can propose a law or a constitutional amendment.

A state-level method of direct legislation that gives voters a chance to approve or disapprove proposed legislation or a proposed constitutional amendment.

A ballot vote in which citizens select a party's nominee for the general election.

a person working to destroy monopolies and trusts

Economic policy by Roosevelt that favored fair relationships between companies and workers

Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment

nickname for the new Progressive Party, which was formed to support Roosevelt in the election of 1912

The major organization for suffrage for women, it was founded in 1890 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Supported the Wilson administration during World War I and split with the more radical National Woman's Party, who in 1917 began to picket the White House because Wilson had not forcefully stated that women should get the vote

group organized in 1874 that worked to ban the sale of liquor in the U.S.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

found ways to shift power from bosses to mayors & city councils

organized groups of Mexican Americans that make loans and provide legal assistance to other members of their community

Japan agreed to limit the number of unskilled workers emigrating to the U.S.

1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers

1887 law that distributed reservation land to individual Native American owners