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
Formed the National suffrage Association (NWSA)
Susan B. Anthony
Became Roosevelt’s 1904 campaign slogan and the framework for his entire presidency
The Square Deal
Assassinated William McKinley
Leon Czolgosz
A powerful platform to publicize important issues and seek support for his policies
Bully Pulpit
Nickname given to Theodore Roosevelt
Trust-buster
A way to ensure that businesses competed more fairly
Government Regulation
Required federal inspection of meat shipped across state lines
Meat Inspection Act
Forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of food and patent medicine containing harmful ingredients
Pure Food and Drug Act
Sought to improve living conditions for the urban poor
Progressives
