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Progressive Era
8th Grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Clean Food and Drug Act | A law passed by Theodore Roosevelt which set up standards for food and medicine to be safe for people to consume. |
| Child Labor | When children worked in factories. |
| Corruption | When people in power do things to benefit themselves instead of the public. |
| Fair Labor Standards Act | A law which made child labor illegal, created a minimum wage, and limited work weeks to 40 hours. |
| How the Other Half Lives | A book by Jacob Riis which showed the bad living conditions in tenements. |
| Ida B. Wells | A muckraking journalist who exposed racism and the killing of African Americans in the American South. |
| Jacob Riis | A muckraking journalist who exposed the bad living conditions in tenements. |
| The Jungle | A book by Upton Sinclair that exposed the bad working conditions and unsafe food conditions. |
| Lewis W. Hine | A muckraker who exposed the bad conditions of child labor |
| Minimum Wage | The lowest amount a worker can be paid |
| Monopoly/ Trust | One one company controls all or almost all of one type of business by putting other companies out of business. |
| Muckraker | A journalist who exposed bad conditions in society. (exposed harmful practices of business and government) |
| Progressive | A person who wants to move society forward in a positive direction. |
| Progressive Era | A time when the U.S. was moving forward in a positive direction. |
| Reform | to make positive changes in society |
| Reformer | A person who wants to make positive changes in society |
| Sherman Anti-Trust Act | A law that allowed the government to break up monopolies and trusts. |
| Strike | When workers and unions refused to work to convince business owners to give them better working conditions. |
| tenement | A crowded one room apartment shared by multiple families. |
| Theodore Roosevelt | A U.S. president who passed laws to make positive progress. |
| Trust Busting | Theodore Roosevelt’s policy of keeping and controlling good trusts and breaking up bad trusts. |
| Upton Sinclair | A muckraking journalist who exposed the bad working conditions and unsafe food conditions. |
| Union | A group of workers who come together to fight for better conditions. |
| Unsanitary | Dirty, unsafe, hazardous |
| Wage | How much a worker is paid. |
| Women’s Suffrage | When women fought for the right to vote. |
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