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| People suggest ideas for laws, get petitions signed, send to state legislatures. |
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| Allows voters to remove corrupt elected officials from office. |
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| Voters choose their party's candidate from among several people |
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| Gives voters power to pass laws!Voters vote on the bill in the next election. |
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| Someone who works to make the government more democratic, restore economic opportunities, and to correct social injustices. |
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| Congress can collect income tax. |
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| Election of Senators by the PEOPLE! |
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| Banned the consumption, sale, and production of alcohol in the USA. |
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| Organization of workers from DIFFERENT trades, formed after the Civil War. |
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| Group of workers who ban together to seek better working conditions. |
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| American Federation of Labor (A.F.L) |
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| Union formed by Samuel Gompers. Focused on improving working conditions. |
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| Nationwide railway strike 1894. |
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| Factory with poor working conditions. Long hours, low pay, dangerous! |
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| Fire at the Triangle Waist company in New York City. Killed many. Brought attention to factory conditions. |
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| Children worked in factories and coal mines in poor conditions instead of attending school. |
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| Someone who works hard to preserve the wildlife and natural resources. Example: Theodore Roosevelt |
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| Writer/Journalist who exposes corruption / problems in American society. |
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| Populist Party / The Grange |
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| "People's Party" formed by farmers to fix farming problems. |
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| Attempts by people to fix problems in society. |
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| Mostly native-born, middle class people who worked to fix problems. |
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| Movement to stop (outlaw) alcohol. |
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| Banning the manufacture, sale, and possession of alocholic beverages. |
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| Reformer who worked for women's suffrage. Lived and worked in Rochester, NY. |
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| Reformer who worked for women's suffrage |
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| The first women's rights convention in the U.S.A. Held in Seneca Falls NY 1848. |
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| Legal body created to hold stock in many companies, often in the same industry. |
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| Breaking-up trusts and monopolies. Theodore Roosevelt was nicknamed the "trustbuster". |
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| Law that makes trusts and monopolies illegal. |
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| African-American leader who worked for equal rights for blacks. Started the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to help blacks learn trades. |
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| Black leader, founded the NAACP. Encouraged blacks to reject segregation. |
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| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - 1909, worked to protect constitutional rights of African-Americans, still around today. Founded by W.E.B. DuBois. |
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| President of the U.S.A., conservationist, "trustbuster", got the Panama Canal built. |
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| Member of the Temperence Movement. Believed in "hatchetation" (broke-up saloons and bars with a hatchet while reciting from the Bible)Member of the Women's Christian Temperence Movement W.C.T.U. |
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| Created the nation's banking system. |
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| Corrupt NYC politician. Jailed. |
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| Exposed filthy conditions of meat factories. A muckraker. Wrote the Jungle |
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| Book by Upton Sinclair, exposed the unsanitary conditions of meat factories and how poorly the workers were treated. |
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| Awarding friends, family, and political supporters with government jobs. |
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| Civil Service Act (Pendelton Act) |
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| Civil Service tests must be taken for government jobs. Applicants ranked by score. Ends the spoils system. |
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| Interstate Commerce Commission, by Pres. Cleveland to regulate railroads. |
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| The Pure Food and Drug Act |
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| Law makes companies list all ingredients in food or medicines on the package / label. |
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| Muckraker whose photos exposed slums, poverty in cities. |
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| Created Hull House, settlement house for immigrants in Chicago. Offered education, food, money to poor immigrants. |
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| Workers band together and refuse to work until their demands are met. |
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| Temporary workers who take over for workers who are on-strike. |
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| His photos exposed child labor. |
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| His book Bitter Cry of the Children exposed child labor. |
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| Union leader who worked to end child labor and pushed for mandatory public education for children. |
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| Union leader who worked to end child labor and pushed for mandatory public education for children. |
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| Political cartoonist who exposed corruption. |
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| Exposed how bad monopolies are in her book The History of the Standard Oil Company. |
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| Assassinated by an unhappy office seeker. |
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