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progressive era
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Progressive movement | A movement to fix problems caused by industrialization. |
| muckrakers | Journalists who exposed problems and corruption. |
| Ida Tarbell | exposed standard oil |
| Upton Sinclair | The Jungle and meatpacking. |
| Rough Riders | Roosevelt's cavalry unit in the Spanish-American War. |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Progressive president who regulated big business. |
| What happened to McKinley | He was assassinated in 1901, making Roosevelt president. |
| What was the Square Deal | Roosevelt's plan for fairness for workers, businesses, and consumers. |
| Capitalism | Private businesses and ownership. |
| Socialism | More public/collective control of the economy. |
| Roosevelt and capitalism | He wanted to regulate capitalism, not destroy it. |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws and practices enforcing racial segregation. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Separate but equal. |
| Booker T. Washington | Vocational education and economic success. |
| W.E.B. Du Bois | Civil rights and political equality. |
| Seneca Falls Convention | Women's rights and the Declaration of Sentiments. |
| 15th Amendment | Voting protections regardless of race |
| 19th Amendment | Women's voting rights. |
| When 19th Amendment was ratified | 1920. |