American History Chapter 16

seventeenth Amendment

Allowed americans to vote directly for U.S senators

jacob Riis

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 and Hell's Kitchen.

muckrakers

Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public.

progressivism

Movement for social change between the late 1890's and World War I. Its origin lay in a fear of big business and corrupt government and a desire to improve the lives of countless Americans. Progressives set out to cure the social ills brought about by industrialization and urbanization, social disorder, and political corruption.

Lincoln Steffens

Muckracker who wrote about vote stealing and political machines in The Shame of Cities., Early muckraker who exposed the political corruption in many American cities.

Ida Tarbell

an investigative journalists, editor, teacher, and lecturer, wrote a book that revealed the abuses committed by the Standard Oil Trust.

Robert M La Follette

progressive wisconsin govenor whose adgenda of reforms was known as the wisconsin idea