Declined economy

Increased economy

A leading muckraker and magazine editor, she exposed the corruption of the oil industry with her 1904 work A History of Standard Oil.

A name for the late 1800s, coined by Mark Twain to describe the tremendous increase in wealth caused by the industrial age and the ostentatious lifestyles it allowed the very rich. The great industrial success of the U.S. and the fabulous lifestyles of the wealthy hid the many social problems of the time, including a high poverty rate, a high crime rate, and corruption in the government.

Idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs.

Upton Sinclair's novel that inspired pro-consumer federal laws regulating meat, food, and drugs

Increased economic opportuties

1906 - Journalists who searched for corruption in politics and big business and forced govt to act

a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal

1890 law banning any trust that restrained interstate trade or commerce

1914 law that strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act

Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment- led by TR and John Muir

Teddy Roosevelt

US in the late 1800s

Companies that were bad for government

It should benefit the people

In 1890, after killing Sitting Bull, the 7th Cavalry rounded up Sioux at this place in South Dakota and 300 Natives were murdered and only a baby survived.

a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state

limit the powers of big businesses and monopolies

laissiez-faire policies

new tech and inventions; laissiez faire policies; unskilled labor force; Improvements in transportation

low pay and poor working conditions

the founder of Hull House, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes

Early 1900's muckraker who exposed social and political evils in the U.S. with his novel "How The Other Half Lives"; exposed the poor conditions of the poor tenements in NYC

advocated for acceptance and political equality of African American People

pushed for gradual economic gains for African Americans

Played an important role as reformers

(1838-1914) Naturalist who believed the wilderness should be preserved in its natural state.