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Unit 8
The Progressive Era
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Problems of the Gilded Age | poverty, dangerous working conditions, government corruption, monopolies, low wages. |
| Social Gospel Movement | Taught that to honor God, people must help others and reform society. |
| Jane Addams | Created the Hull House in Chicago. |
| Florence Kelley | Social reformer, fought to create child labor laws and laws limiting women to a 10 hour work day. |
| Francis Willard & Carrie Nation | Led the Women's Christian Temperance Union. |
| WTCU | Fought for prohibition laws. |
| Muckrakers | Writers who expose wrong doing. |
| Jacob Riis | Wrote "How the Other Half Lives" |
| Upton Sinclair | Wrote "The Jungle" |
| Ida Tarbell | Wrote "The History of Standard Oil" |
| Margret Sanger | Promoted birth control for poor and middle class women and opened the first birth control clinic in America. |
| Elizabeth Stanton & Susan B. Anthony | Formed the National American Women Suffrage Association. |
| Susan B. anthony | Leader of the woman suffrage movement, who helped define the movement's goals and beliefs and to lead its actions. |
| WEB Dubois | Called for immediate civil rights and promotion of the "Talented Tenth". |
| Booker T. Washington | Founded Tuskegee Institute. |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded in 1909 to work for racial equality. |
| Marcus Garvey | Believed that whites and blacks could not coexist in America. |
| initiative | A way for people to propose laws directly. |
| referendum | A way for people to approve changes in laws by a vote. |
| recall | A vote on whether to remove a public official from office. |
| Bob LaFollette | Progressive Wisconsin governor and senator. |
| Theodore Roosevelt | President from 1901 to 1909. |
| "Square Deal" | President Roosevelt's program of progressive reforms. |
| Trustbusting | Regulating big business and breaking up monopolies. |
| Interstate Commerce Commision | Regulates railroads. |
| Sherman Antitrust Act | Regulates companies that restrict trade. |
| conservation | The planned management of natural resources. |
| Meat Inspection Act | Law reforming meatpacking conditions. |
| Pure Food & Drug Act | Law to stop the sale of unclean food and drugs. |
| William Howard Taft | Ran for president on the republican ticket in 1912. |
| Election of 1912 | Was a three way race. |
| "Bull Moose" Party | Nickname for the new Progressive Party, which was formed to support Roosevelt in the election of 1912. |
| Woodrow Wilson | Winner of the 1912 presidential election. |
| Clayton Antitrust Act | Law that weakened monopolies and upheld the rights of unions and farm organizations. |
| Federal Reserve | National banking system begun in 1913. |
| 16th Amendment | Created first national income tax. |
| 17th Amendment | Amendment providing for senators to be elected directly. |
| 18th Amendment | outlawed alcohol. |
| 19th Amendment | Amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to vote. |
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