People
Upton Sinclair described the filthy conditions in Chicago’s meatpacking industry in his novel,
The Jungle
______was a progressive era reformer who worked to expose the ills of alcohol. She is known for busting up saloons with a hatchet.
Carrie A. Nation
The settlement house movement, led in the U. S. by _______-, established neighborhood centers in poor areas that offered education, recreation, and social activities. Her settlement house was located in Chicago and named Hull House.
Jane Addams
_____ was an African American journalist. She led a campaign against Lynching.
Ida. B. Wells-Barnett
______ did not accept the idea of eventually gaining equality. He urged blacks to seek full political, civil, and social rights immediately through political involvement. He was one of the founders of the NAACP.
WEB DuBois
_______, the president of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, was the leading spokesman for African American concerns during the Progressive Era. He urged blacks to work toward equality through education and economic advancement.
Booker T. Washington
_______ and Lucy Burns also fought for women’s rights but used more radical means to influence reform, such as picketing the White House and hunger strikes.
Alice Paul
______- and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were leaders in the women’s suffrage movement. Suffrage is the right to vote.
Susan B. Anthony
wrote the book “How the Other Half Lives,” to expose how the urban poor lived.
Jacob Riss
Political corruption was common in cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ____ was head of a famous _______ and a corrupt politician in New York City. His dishonesty was the subject of political cartoons by ______.
Boss Tweed, political machine, Thomas Nast
At the state level this Wisconsin senator and governor was a supporter of the Progressive movement and vocal opponent of railroad trusts, the spoils system and machine politics.
Robert La Follete
_______ became a symbol of the Progressive Era because of his “trust busting” policies, conservation efforts, and support of progressive legislation such as the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. He was a powerful voice for _________ and helped to expand America’s ________.
Conservation, Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, National Parks
An investigative journalist, ____ is best known for her series of articles in McClure’s Magazine, The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904). She worked to expose the unfair business practices of monopolies.
Ida Tarbell