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17th Amendment
The senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualification requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures -
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19th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex Congress shall have power to enforce the article by appropriate legislation -
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16th Amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration -
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18th Amendment
After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited -
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Robber Barons (captains of industry)
Some 19th-century industrialist who were called "Captains of Industry" overlap with those called "Robber Barons" -
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Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist -
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Jacob Riis
Jacob August Riis was a Danish-American social reformer, "Muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer -
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Social Gospel
Social Gospel was a movement led by a group of liberal Protestant progressives in response to the social problems increasing immigration of the Gilded Age -
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Upton Sinclair
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books -
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Muckraker
The term Muckraker was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt. They typically had large audiences in some popular magazines -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
Initiative, Referendum, and Recall are three powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office. -
Tenement
A tenement is a multi-occupancy building of any sort. However, in the United States, it has come to refer most specifically to a run-down apartment building or to a slum. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure food and Drug Act of 1906 was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by Congress in the 20th-century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
The "Teapot Dome Scandal" was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921-1923