Progressive Leaders
This president’s “Square Deal” promised fairness for workers, businesses, and consumers.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt
The temperance movement led to this constitutional amendment banning alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment
The Progressive Era began as a reaction to problems caused by this earlier period of rapid growth.
What is the Guilded AGe?
Many workers during the Progressive Era labored in unsafe, low-paying factories called these.
sweatshops
This Tennessee city was home to Ida B. Wells, an anti-lynching activist and journalist.
memphis
She was a leading reformer for women’s suffrage and helped found the National Woman’s Party.
Alice Paul
This organization, founded in 1909, worked to end racial discrimination and segregation.
What is NAACP
This law, passed in 1887, regulated railroad rates and marked the first federal attempt to regulate business.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
This 1911 tragedy in New York City led to new workplace safety laws.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
This Memphis businessman was an early leader of the civil rights movement in Tennessee.
Robert Reed Church Jr
This muckraker wrote The Jungle, exposing unsafe practices in the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton sinclair
Progressives supported this reform to give voters more control over laws by direct vote.
What is Referendum?
The 17th Amendment established this democratic reform.
Child labor reform eventually led to laws requiring this for children.
Compulsory Education
Tennessee played a key role in ratifying this amendment, known as the “Perfect 36.”
19th Amendment
He was president during World War I and introduced the “New Freedom” reforms.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.
What is 19th?
Theodore Roosevelt was known as a “trustbuster” for breaking up these large corporations.
What is Northern Securities Group
This amendment allowed the federal government to collect income tax.
16th Amendment
This Tennessee-born muckraker investigated unfair labor practices and prison conditions.
Lewis Hine
This African American leader promoted vocational training and founded the Tuskegee Institute.
Who is Booker T. Washington
Jane Addams founded this Chicago settlement house to help immigrants adjust to urban life.
What is Hull House
This act of 1913 created the central banking system still used today.
What is Federal Reserve Act
Progressive reformers supported these organizations, which fought for better wages and working conditions.
Labor Unions
The passage of women’s suffrage came down to the vote of this young Tennessee legislator in 1920.
Who is Harry Burn?