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Jane Addams / Hull House
Jane Addams made the hull house, a settlement house. She later received a nobel peace prize. President was Benjamin Harrison. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1931/addams-bio.html -
Jacob Riis
Jacob Riis was a muckraking journalist. He exposed the living conditions in the tenaments by taking photographs. Grover Cleveland was president when he exposed this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Riis -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Makes it harder to get monopolies. Benjamin Harrison was president when this law was passed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act -
US vs. EC Knight
EC Knight company was not broken up. Grover Cleveland was president. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._E._C._Knight_Co. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
Strike for higher wages and shorter workdays. Theodore Roosevelt was president at this time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthracite_Coal_Strike -
Lincoln Steffens
Was a fomous muckraker whose work was later published in The Shame of Cities. Theodore Roosevelt was president when the book was published.
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Northern Securities vs. US
Railroad monopoly was split up. Theodore Roosevelt was the president. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Securities_Co._v._United_States -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair was a muckraker who eventually ran for governor of California. He exposed the conditions of the meat packing industry. This helped make the pure food and drug act. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upton_sinclair -
Muckraking
In 1906 Theodore Roosevelt tried to tackle muckraking
Muckraking was a new type of investigative journalism from 1890 to 1914 http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jmuckraking.htm -
Payne Aldrich Tariff
Bill angered progressives and Taft lost support. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payne-Aldrich_Tariff_Act -
Mann Elkins Act
Regulate telecommunications industry. ICC controlled this. Taft was president. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann-Elkins_Act -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
Deadliest industrial fire. Workers could not escape because of locked doors. William Taft was president during the fire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire -
American Tobacco vs. US
American Tobacco company monopoly was split up. William Taft was president. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Tobacco_Company -
Carrie A. Nation
Radical that opposed alcohol. William Taft was president when she died. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_A._Nation -
Ida Tarbell
One of the first muckrakers
Exposed unfair prices at the Standard Oil Company
Theodore Roosevelt was president in 1911 when Ida helped demonopolize standard oil company http://www.biography.com/people/ida-tarbell-9502126 -
Progressive / Bull Moose Party
Formed from a split of the republican party. Was a very short lived party. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Party_(United_States,_1912) -
Election of 1912
Between Wilson, Taft, and Roosevelt. Woodrow Wilson wins. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_of_1912 -
16th Amendment
Made income tax. William Taft was president. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution -
17th Amendment
Made you vote for Senators. Woodrow Wilson was president http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution -
Federal Reserve Act
Can now make a federal reserve bank. Woodrow Wilson was president. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Act -
18th Amendment
Prohibition of alcohol. Woodrow Wilson was president http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution -
19th Amendment
Gave anyone the right to vote based on sex. Woodrow Wilson was president. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution -
Robert Lafollette
Senator that had many positions and ran for president. Was a progressive. Calvin Coolidge beat him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._La_Follette,_Sr.
