progressivism

4. Efforts to protect natural resources, including setting up national parks.
7. Deal: Roosevelt’s plan to ensure fairness for everyone, including workers, businesses, and consumers.
8. Amendment: The law that started Prohibition, banning alcohol in the U.S.
10. Sinclair: A writer who exposed bad conditions in the meatpacking industry in his book The Jungle.
15. Journalists who exposed corruption and social problems in the early 1900s.
16. A process where people can propose new laws by collecting signatures.
19. Roosevelt: A U.S. President known for his policies that helped workers, consumers, and the environment.
20. A movement to fix problems caused by industrialization, like poor working conditions and political corruption.

1. Suffrage: The movement to give women the right to vote.
2. Gospel Movement: A religious movement that pushed for social reforms, focusing on helping the poor and improving society based on Christian values.
3. Riis: A journalist who exposed the terrible living conditions in New York City’s slums through his writing and photographs.
5. A vote by the public to approve or reject laws or policies.
6. Amendment: The law that allowed people to directly vote for U.S. Senators.
9. Shirtwaist Factory: A factory fire in 1911 that killed many workers, leading to better workplace safety laws.
11. The nationwide ban on alcohol in the U.S. from 1920 to 1933.
12. Jungle: Upton Sinclair’s book that revealed the unsafe and unsanitary practices in meat factories.
13. A way for voters to remove an elected official from office before their term ends.
14. Amendment: The law that gave women the right to vote in the U.S. in 1920.
17. Food and Drug Act: A law that made sure food and medicine were labeled correctly and safe to use.
18. lines: A production method where workers do one task repeatedly, speeding up manufacturing.