Progressive people
Youngest president in US History elected at the age of 43 in 1901. Known for his military service during the Spanish-American War, progressive reforms, and being an outdoorsman.
Teddy Roosevelt
What reforms came from the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire?
workplace safety (fire escapes, routine maintenance checks, etc.)
The 18th Amendment is often just shortened to this one word. It relates to the banning of the sale, transportation and making of alcohol.
Prohibition
Socially conscious journalists and writers who dramatized the need for reform. Several wrote investigative reports uncovering the ills of America in the early 1900s. Teddy Roosevelt gave these writers a nickname for their fascination with the ugliest side of things.
Muckrakers
Gave women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
He wrote The Jungle which exposed the filthy and unsanitary meat packing plants in Chicago. He said "I aimed for the public's heart and instead I hit them in the stomach."
Upton Sinclair
John Muir, the man who wrote that "only uncle Sam can do that..." was referring to whom?
Who is uncle Sam and what reform is he suggesting?
The American Government
Create laws to prevent logging
The movement to limit or ban the consumption of alcohol.
Temperance Movement
With industrialization, urbanization, and immigration, there were several new ideas that emerged about honest efficient government to bring social justice.
Progressivism
Which suffragist was the younger one who wanted to take the quicker (federal Amendment) approach to suffrage? Alice Paul or Carrie Catt?
Alice Paul
This was an effort by progressives to teach immigrants to speak English, dress like white middle-class Americans, and replace the foods and customs of their homelands with American practices and values.
Americanization
Which of the following laws were passed as a result of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle?
The Pure Food & Drug Act /
Meat Inspection Act
What is the connection between the 18th and 21st Amendments?
The 18th Amendment established Prohibition, while the 21st Amendment repealed it
Jacob Riis wrote the book How the Other half Lives which illustrated the way many poor immigrants were living in apartments called ___________ .
Give an example of a muckraker doing their job (investigative journalism) be specific and give the name of the muckraker too.
Jacob Riis, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, etc.
“Gang boss and peoples’ hero, like Prohibition, his image was a contradiction.” What does this quote mean?
Some people liked Al Capone while most didn't because he was dangerous.
Same thing with Prohibition many people like it early on, until they realized it was dangerous and caused more problems than it solved.
Robber Baron
Influential muckracker who was a photographer for the New York Evening Sun and used his camera to expose crowded, unsafe, ratinfested tenement buildings where the urban poor lived.
Jacob Riis
“I aimed for the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.” - Upton Sinclair .... what does it mean?
Upton Sinclair meant to tell people about poor working conditions in the meat-packing industry, but instead he influenced food safety reforms
Referendums, recalls and initiatives were Reforms created by Americans who were sick of what?
Political Machines and corruption
(big biz & politicians rigging elections / being corrupt)
Factories were trying to foster efficiency by breaking down production into small repetitive tasks. This is know as...
Taylorism
Most immigrants coming to America in the early 1900s came through ____________ and some immigrants may have been fleeing negative circumstances known as ____ factors.
Ellis Island ; Push