I was a journalist who exposed corrupt business practices especially those of John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil

I was a journalist who exposed corrupt city governments

I was a reformer who focused people's attention on the problems of the urban poor with my writing and my unique photographs.

Who exposed the corruption of city governments in The Shame of the Cities?

I was a progressive Wisconsin governor whose agenda of reforms was known as the Wisconsin Idea.

This constitutional addition gave voters the power to elect their senators directly instead of them being chosen by the political party or machine.

This government reform fave voters the power to put a proposed law on the ballot for public approval.

This state government reform enable voters to remove an elected official from office by special election

 Who was the author of How the Other Half Lives?

a reform movement that focused on, among other things, improving the lives of the urban poor, exposing corruption in government, and child labor.

These reform-minded writers were the first to expose many of the social problems that Progressives targeted and received this nickname because they “raked up” or exposed the filth of society

Who described the strangling power of a monopolistic railroad in his 1901 novel, The Octopus: A Story of California?

What did Lillian Wald do for the poor in New York City?

This law forced landlords to install lighting in public hallways and to provide at least one toilet for every two families.

What happened to the death rate in New York City as a result of lighting in public hallways, banning outhouses, and providing enough toilets for people to use in the tenements?

Who was the first state to pass a minimum wage law in 1912?

What multiracial organization was formed by Ida Wells-Barnett, 

W.E.B. Du Bois, Jane Addams, and other activists in order to fight for the rights of African Americans?

What movie did the NAACP protest because of its stereotyping of African Americans?

The mission of this group, founded by Sigmund Livingston,  was to fight anti-Semitism, or hostility toward Jews.

 What percentage of working-class families lived in poverty in 1900?

In what year did the U.S. Congress finally pass a minimum wage law?

In this Supreme Court case the court sided with business leaders when they refused to uphold a law limiting bakers to a 10-hour workday on the grounds that it denied workers their right to make contracts with employers.

In this 1908 Supreme Court case the court sided with workers when they upheld a state law establishing a 10-hour workday for women in laundries and factories.

What labor union, founded in 1905, opposed capitalism altogether and organized the unskilled workers that the American Federation of Labor ignored?

This state government reform allowed voters to approve or veto a recently passed law