Muckrakers
Upton Sinclair wrote this book about immigrant working conditions and food quality
The Jungle
Name three social issues from the Gilded Age that were at least attempted to be fixed in the Progressive Era
Gender Equality
Racial Equality
Conservation
Political Corruptness
Working Conditions
Food and Drug safety
Immigration
Living Conditions
Crime
in U.S. politics, a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state
Political Machine
A person who favors or promotes change, modernization, and transformation
A Progressive
These were created due to the nations newly found love of preserving nature in America.
National Parks
"How the Other Half Lives" was a photo journal and slide show created by Jacob Riis to show what social issue to what group of people?
Living Conditions to the Rich
Name the two figureheads of Racial Equality during the Progressive Era
W.E.B Dubois, Booker T. Washington
What city did William (Boss) Tweed perform most of his fraud and corruption?
New York City
The exclusive possession or control a supply or trade in a service or good
Monopoly
In Jacob Riis' "How the Other Half Lives", who was "The other half"?
Poor immigrants
Lewis Hines took photographs of child labor in coal mines during the progressive era but many people called his work biased. Why?
He was hired by an anti-child labor union, and the camera technology at the time required staged photos.
Who was the President that headed the conservation movement during the Progressive Era?
Teddy Roosevelt
The practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters, donators or friends
Process of making an area more city-like; the growth of cities and towns from villages or farms
Urbanization
A payment made to someone who has facilitated a transaction or appointment, especially illicitly.
Kickback
Thomas Nast is widely known as the father of this type of art form because of his work as a muckraker during the progressive era.
Political Cartoons
Name one of the two names behind the Suffrage movement in the Progressive Era
Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul
This US President was assassinated for refusing to give Government jobs to a supporter and donator.
William McKinley
Holding to traditional attitudes and values with cautions about change or advancement. (The opposite of progressive)
Conservative
An institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to immigrants in the Progressive era.
Settlement Houses
Lincoln Steffens was a progressive era muckraker who wrote about the crimes of this very famous political boss. The modern day face of the political machine.
William (Boss) Tweed
Explain the changes and complications occuring with Native American tribes during the Progressive Era
They were torn between assimilating to American culture and keeping their own. Nomadic lifestyles became less possible due to urbanization and westward expansion.
Former famous Civil War general who became President in the late 1800's whose Presidential reign was ruined by the hiring of friends and family who accepted bribes and payments for votes and money.
Ulysses S. Grant
Economic or political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private ownes for profit
Capitalism
Name of the college created by Booker T. Washington for black students who wanted to learn trades.
The Tuskegee Institute