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Review Muckrakers

Review Muckrakers. These were people who wanted to solve the many problems of the nation. If people know about the problems. They will fix them!. Progressives. What was a problem for people or for the country during the Progressive Era? 1900-1915. Unsafe Housing, bad working conditions.

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Review Muckrakers

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  1. Review Muckrakers

  2. These were people who wanted to solve the many problems of the nation. If people know about the problems. They will fix them!

  3. Progressives

  4. What was a problem for people or for the country during the Progressive Era? 1900-1915

  5. Unsafe Housing, bad working conditions. No laws about the quality of food or Medicine. Child Labor Unfair business practices Racial discrimination

  6. Muckrakers

  7. These were writers who researched the problems, printed in books a newspapers. Theodore Roosevelt named them. Raked up dirt, found out bad things, and let people know about them.

  8. This person Wrote “The Jungle” Which was about the unsafe and filthy working conditions in meat packing plants.

  9. Upton Sinclair

  10. Roosevelt pushed this through, said all food and drugs must meat quality standards and label correctly.

  11. Pure Food and Drug Act of 19o6

  12. This was the future leader of Austria-Hungary. But was killed on June 28, 1914. Helped start WWI

  13. Archduke Franz Ferdinand

  14. Name 1 country for the Central Powers or Triple Entente

  15. Austria-Hungary Germany Ottoman Empire

  16. Name a country who was a member of the Allies.

  17. France Russia Great Britain Serbia

  18. This was the submarine that the Germans used. They Sank many ships that carried the Allies supplies

  19. U-Boat

  20. This ship was secretly carrying weapons to Great Britain from the U.S. Sank by a U-boat, 1,200 passengers killed, 128 Americans

  21. Lusitania

  22. Drought hit the Great Plains in the 1930’s. Strong winds would lift dry soil and started start storms.

  23. Dust Bowl

  24. Families that packed up and moved to California looking for jobs during the 1920s.

  25. Okies

  26. This is the treaty that Panama signed, and agreed to lease a 10 mile strip of land of their country, called the Panama Canal Zone, to the United States.

  27. Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty

  28. Describe the conditions building the Panama Canal

  29. Lots of mosquitos that carried yellow fever and malaria, so they drained swamps and ponds. Hot-Humid Climate Dangerous work

  30. What were differences between the American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association?

  31. NWSA – Pushed for a constitutional amendment. Protests would include showing up on election day and set up their own mock elections. AWSA -Believed that pressuring state governments was the most effective route. Would lobby state governments.

  32. Daughter of Lucy and Henry. Helped combine the NWSA and AWSA into the National American Woman Suffrage Association. (NAWSA)

  33. Alice Stone Blackwell

  34. This Amendment gave women the right to vote.

  35. 19th

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