Across
- 2. Spargo wrote "the bitter cry of children" in 1906.
- 3. Steffens Wrote the book "The Shame Of The Cities" in 1904.Exposed problems associated with corruption in government.
- 4. inspection a United States Congress Act that works to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
- 6. election a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before his or her term has ended.
- 8. act a 1906 United States federal law that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum railroad rates and extend its jurisdiction.
- 11. the use of an arbitrator to settle a dispute
- 12. People that believed the united states needed to be reformed and actively improved american society.
- 17. Roosevelt an American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who served as the 26th President of the United States.
- 18. election a election to appoint delegates to a party conference or to select the candidates for a principal, especially presidential, election.
- 19. plan a series of progressive laws, voting changes, controlling big business, and addressed discrimination in the U.S.
- 23. amendment The amendment that established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote.
- 24. act a 1903 United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. The Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates
- 27. food and drug act a United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines.
- 28. Lafollette Progressive republican governor of Wisconsin.He created the Wisconsin plan starting in 1901
Down
- 1. wrote by Upton Sinclair
- 3. a mob kills someone, especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial.
- 4. investigative reporters; Journalists that exposed the problems in the united states, but offered no solutions to those problems.
- 5. McKinley the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897, until his assassination on September 14, 1901, six months into his second term.
- 7. amendment The amendment within the Constitution that gives Congress the power to collect taxes on income without apportioning it among the states.
- 9. meade the largest reservoir in the United States in maximum water capacity. It is on the Colorado River about 24 mi from the Strip southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, in the states of Nevada and Arizona.
- 10. an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909.
- 13. a general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision.
- 14. the right of citizens outside the legislature to originate legislation.
- 15. Sinclair Wrote "The Jungle" in 1906.
- 16. Dubois an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor.
- 20. tarbell Wrote the "History of the standard oil company" in 1903.Purpose of the book-described the problems caused by monopolies.
- 21. manager an appointed official who directs the administration of a city.
- 22. securities company vs united states a case heard by the united states supreme court in 1903.
- 23. amendment The amendment that prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alcoholic beverages.
- 25. czolgosz an American former steel worker, of Polish descent, responsible for the assassination of U.S. President William McKinley.
- 26. amendment the amendment that guarantees all American women the right to vote.