Vocab
Journalists who attempted to expose wrongdoing and corruption
Muckrakers
What role did political machines play in big cities?
Held total control of everything, including leaders and money
What did state reforms try and get more people access to?
Voting
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
First women's rights convention, beginning of women's suffrage movement
What kind of child labor laws were passed in order to reform it?
Made kids have to go to school
Prevented kids under 14 from working
Change for the better
Reform
What did political machines do to get power and to keep it?
Threats, voter fraud, bribes, gifts, assault, murder
What was the name of the movement that tried to get alcohol banned in the US?
Temperance
What was the main issue women's rights groups focused on?
How did the government reform alcohol use?
Passed the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) to ban alcohol in the U.S.
Organizations that controlled large cities through votes and power
Political Machines
What role did muckrakers play in the Progressive Era?
Investigated organizations that were corrupt and doing wrong to try and take them down
What were settlement houses?
Places in poor neighborhoods that would provide services to other people
What was 1 argument men used against women voting?
Women already had too much power, women would act too much like men, women would ban alcohol
How did the government reform working conditions?
Put in safety standards, limited working hours, made a minimum wage
The right to vote
Suffrage
Identify at least 2 organizations/industries that muckrakers went after
Meat, oil, living problems, political machines, child labor
Identify at least 2 things settlement houses did for poor neighborhoods
Healthcare, child-care, classes, jobs, food
Susan B. Anthony practiced civil disobedience. What did she do to protest?
Tried to vote illegally
How did the government reform living conditions?
Passed laws to set up minimum standards
Toilets
Windows
Ventilation
Law that banned the sale of alcohol in the U.S.
Prohibition
What did the Progressives want the government to do in the Progressive Era?
Step in and help people
What group of people began to take major action when it came to the temperance movement?
Women
How did women finally achieve the right to vote?
19th Amendment
How did the government achieve business/monopoly reform?
Set up food safety/food inspection laws
Began to break up monopolies