1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as facilities for Blacks and whites were equal.

Created by Teddy Roosevelt to increase conservation measures across the nation.

Anonymous voting method that helps to make elections fair and honest.

This woman invigorated the Women's Right Movement by using radical tactics like getting arrested & hunger strikes.

A group of Reformers who worked to solve problems caused by the rapid industrial urban growth of the late 1800s.

This 1906 work by Upton Sinclair pointed out the abuses of the meat packing industry. The book led to the passage of the Meet Inspection Act

Muckraking journalist and photographer who exposed the poverty, disease, & crime of immigrant neighborhoods in NYC in the work, "How the Other Half Lives."

Community centers located in the slums and near tenements that gave aid to the poor, especially immigrants.

The act that prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment or impure or falsely labeled food and drugs

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages

Organization founded in 1909 to end segregation & discrimination and gain political and civil rights for African Americans

The 1st Black man to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged Blacks to resist systems of segregation & discrimination, helped create the NAACP.

Prominent Black American, born into slavery, who believed that racism would end once Blacks acquired useful labor skills through vocational education & proved their economic value to white society.

Laws designed to enforce segregation

the science of improving the population by controlling breeding through forced sterilization to increase the occurrence of desirable characteristics.

The 19th Amendment

Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A "boss" leads the organization & attempts to grab more votes for his party.

A group of investigative reporters who exposed the corruption and horrible conditions of urban areas