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Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie worked in a Pittsburgh cotton factory as a boy before rising to the position of division superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad -
Jacob Riis
American newspaper reporter, social reformer, and photographer who, with his book How the Other Half Lives -
Social Gospel
In the late nineteenth century with the goal of making the Christian churches more responsive to social problems -
Upton Sinclair
Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muck-ranking novel -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
Are three powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office. -
Tenement
Any species of permanent property, as lands, houses, rents, an office, or a franchise, that may be held of another -
Pure Food and Drug Act
A law passed in 1906 to remove harmful and misrepresented foods and drugs from the market -
Muckraker
Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt -
17th Amendments
The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states -
16th Amendments
Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax. -
18th Amendments
Eighteenth Amendment is the only amendment to ever have been repealed from the United States Constitution -
19th Amendments
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States provides men and women with equal voting rights -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Harry F. Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Company exclusive rights to the Teapot Dome
