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My Name Is
#1

I went to jail multiple times for trying to give women access to birth control

Margaret Sanger

#2

I wrote The History of Standard Oil, leading to the breakup of the Standard Oil monopoly

Ida Tarbell

#3

I worked with the temperance movement and eventually got Prohibition passed.

Carrie A. Nation

#4

I wrote The Jungle, leading to meat and food safety

Upton Sinclair

#5

I enacted many state level government reforms like the initative and recall systems

Robert LaFollette

Amend This!
#1

This banned the sale and manufacture of alcohol.

18th Amendment

#2

This gave women the right to vote (women's suffrage)

19th Amendment

#3

This created the federal tax on income

16th Amendment

#4

This changed the way we vote for Senators, giving power to the voters

17th Amendment

#5

This Amendement eventually repealed the 18th Amendment. Cheers!

21st

Social Progress
#1

The German immigrants brought this educational concept over to America.

kindergarten

#2

Jane Addams created Hull House, the most famous one of these immigrant assisting gathering places

settlement houses

#3

Fredrick Law Olmstead was a famous one of these...helping to make urban areas a better place.

landscape architects 

#4

The YMCA and Salvation Army were charitable organizations that were created by followers of this philosophy...

The Social Gospel

#5

President Theodore Roosevelt created these all across the United States to conserve nature and land.  Name one!

 

Yellowstone, Yosemite, Arches, Grand Canyon, etc...

Political Progress
#1

This decreased intimindation and fraud when people cast votes

secret ballot

#2

Our most progressive minded President of the era

Theodore Roosevelt

#3

This muckraker exposed the "shame of the cities"

Lincoln Steffens

#4

This is a way voters can bypass lawmakers and get an issue directly on a ballot

initiative or referendum

#5

This President couldn't focus on the Progressive agenda as much once he got tied up in World War I

Woodrow Wilson

Economic Progress
#1

Another word for a monopoly

trust

#2

This law was passed as a result of The Jungle

Meat Inspection Act or Food and Drug Act

#3

One of the ways businessman Henry Ford was progressive in running his business

first to pay a "living wage", 8 hour workday for all, hired African Americans too, thought of workers as consumers

#4

The American Bar Association created rules and regulations for this profession

lawyers

#5

What the Federal Reserve Bank does

regulates the money supply

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