Progressive Era
What amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920?
What is the Nineteenth (19th) Amendment?
The two most Progressive Presidents
Who are Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson?
the winner of the 1912 Presidential Election; promoted a series of economic reforms that still influence American life
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Exposed Standard Oil Company as a monopoly
Who is Ida Tarbell?
laws passed in the South to segregate African-Americans after the Civil War and were still in effect in the early 1900s.
What are Jim Crow laws?
this act allowed federal inspection of food and medicine across state lines
What is the Pure Food & Drug Act?
Roosevelt's slogan in 1904 election everyone deserves this type of deal
a Square Deal
Slum living for the working class
What are tenements?
Exposed the meatpacking industry with his book The Jungle
Who is Upton Sinclair?
head of the American Socialist party; ran for president 6x
Eugene V. Debs
WEB Du Bois formed the NAACP in 1909 to fight discrimination on behalf of _______________.
African Americans (NAACP-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
These were formed to organize workers and bargain for more rights and pay.
What are unions?
Gave the Cross of Gold Speech and ran for president as a populist Democrat
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
Published a photographic essay titled How the Other Half Lives
Who is Jacob Riis?
the winner of the 1912 Presidential Election; promoted a series of economic reforms that still influence American life
Woodrow Wilson
This allows the people to vote yes or no in a regular election to determine whether a law should be enacted or rejected
Referendum
Teddy Roosevelt loved the outdoors, so he encouraged the creation of these.
National Parks
The first organization formed by the farmers that lead to a series of later organization and representation
What is the Grange?
Exposed political machines in his book The Shame of the Cities
Who is Lincoln Steffens?
NAWSA and the NWP are two examples of their efforts
Protected labor unions from antitrust legislation
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?
Legalized a federal income tax, which provided revenue by taxing individual earnings and corporate profits.
What is the Sixteenth Amendment?
Knights of Labor strike that resulted in a worker being killed, anarchists throwing a bomb, and ruined labor unions reputation
What is the Haymarket Riot?
Exposed child labor in his book The Bitter Cry of Children
Who is John Spargo?