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16th amendment
Created first national income tax
17th amendment
Allowed for the direct elections of U.S senators
18th Amendment
Outlawed Alcohol ( Prohibition )
19th Amendment
Granted Women’s Suffrage
What does it mean to ratify a constitutional amendment
Give it formal approval
Temperance movement
Aimed to end alcohol
Role of muckrakers during progressive era
Journalists who uncovered abuses and corruption in society
Jane Addams
Hull house-settlement house for poor
Jacob Riis
Exposed living conditions of the urban poor
Booker T Washington
Focus on economics job training vocation
Uptown Sinclair
Uncovered the unsafe and unsanitary conditions of meat
Lewis Hines
Child labor
Web Dubois
Focus on voting rights
Created the NAACP
Ida B Wels
Women’s suffrage
Fair trial for AA(6th amendment )
Frank Norris
Exposed railroad monopolies taking profits form farmers