American History CH. 16 Sec 1-3 Flashcards
Popular magazines printed journalists’ first hand accounts of injustices. They journalists were know as…
Muckrakers
Popular muckrakers
Ida Tarbell, Jacob Riis
Allows voters to put a proposed law on the ballot for public approval
Initiative
Allows citizens to place a recently passed law on the ballot, allowing voters to approve or reject the measure
Referendum
Enables citizens to remove an elected official from office by calling for a special election.
Recall
A gruesome disaster in New York in 1911
The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
This amendment gave voters, rather than state legislatures, the power to directly elect their U.S. Senators
The 17th Amendment
Muckraking novel that exposed the horrific working conditions and unsanitary manufacturing practices in the meat packing industry
“The Jungle”
Wrote “The Jungle”
Upton Sinclair
The right to vote
Suffrage
Leader of the NWP
Alice Paul
Leader of NAWSA
Carrie Chapman Catt
NAWSA
National American Woman Suffrage Association
NWP
National Woman’s Party
Gave women the right to vote
The 19th amendment