1. Muckrakers- name given to American journalist in the first decade of the 20th century. It originally comes from the name "muckrake" used in former President Theodore Roosevelt's speech in 1906. Roosevelt considered them irresponsible and picking up trash. After making it known that through his writings one in particular stirred up unrest and lies, they caused uproar and scandal through yellow journalism, which distorted and exaggerated information to get more people to read the articles and get their attention. Their attentions were not always bad. They made print in articles more powerful than they had been before because they used writing as a means to express what they felt Congress needed to change. The 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920 and added to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteed American women the right to vote. It was first brought to the attention of Congress in 1878. This amendment ensured that American citizens were not denied the right to vote based on gender. This amendment is also known as women's suffrage because before 1920 women were denied the right to vote. It wasn't until the Seneca Falls convention, held by Elizabeth Cady Stanton along with other activists in New York, in 1848 that there was a push for women's rights and equality. That convention brought attention to the fact that women deserve the right to vote just as much as men. Niagara Movement - starting in 1905, tired of racial oppression, a group of African Americans, including W. E. B. Dubois, who was the first African American to graduate from Harvard University, held a meeting in Niagara Falls. They wanted economic equality between the races and equal educational opportunities… middle of the paper… and for it to help the country. Roosevelt believed that the CCC would not only help the economy but also the environment. He put three million men to work across America. Men worked in parks and forests. They maintained roads, planted trees, and conserved federal and private lands. The men were paid $30 a month and checks were sent to their parents at home. They lived on a campus and were disciplined as if they were in the army. There were also classes offered to them in the evenings when they were not working. Many men who could neither read nor write learned from those lessons. In 1942 the CCC ended because the economy began to improve after the Great Depression and men found better paying jobs. America's attention also began to focus more on the war. However, it was one of the most successful New Deal programs.