Populist Party - coinage of silver, graduated income tax, and regulation of railroad shipping charges, Upton Sinclair - wrote “The Jungle,” resulting in the government regulating the safety of food products; FDA, Jane Addams - established settlement house movement to help assimilate immigrants, W.E.B. DuBois - helped found NAACP, a civil rights group that fought for the legal rights of African Americans, Reforms - initiative, referendum, recall; increased participation in democracy, made elected officials accountable, Pure Food and Drug Act - government policies protecting consumers, resulted from Muckrakers like Upton Sinclair, National Park Service - Roosevelt, conserve land, 19th Amendment - allowed women’s suffrage, right to vote, Prohibition - desire to decrease crime and health problems, resulted in increased crime & speakeasies, women supported, The Jungle - book detailing the horrors of the meatpacking industry written by Upton Sinclair, Progressive Era - an era of social and political reform aimed at making progress toward a better society,

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