Progressive Era 1
Progressive Era 2
Progressive Era 3
Progressive Era 4
Progressive Era 5
100
This event claimed the lives of 146 people and forced companies to make working conditions safer.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
100
Journalists who exposed corruption in cities during the Progressive Era
Who is Muckrakers
100
Many immigrants traveling to the United States had to have medical checks before coming into the country. This is the area they had to stop and go through before being denied/approved entry.
What is Ellis Island?
100
Large apartment buildings with multiple families living in singe rooms. Limited plumbing and poor hygiene were common.
What are Tenement Buildings
100
This group of immigrants were from Southern and Eastern Europe, as well as Chinese and Japanese immigrants
What is New Immigrants?
200
This African American writer and civil rights leader started a anti-lynching campaign
Ida B. Wells
200
Civil Rights leader that argued that African Americans should achieve their rights through focusing on job training, education, and improving themselves within the black community.
Who is Booker T Washington?
200
Entry point for immigrants coming from Asia?
What is Angel Island?
200
Secret transfer of Naval Oil Reserves from Department of Navy to Department of Interior for leasing to private oil executives.
What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
200
Protestant Christian movement that aimed to apply Christian Ethics and teaching to fix the collective social problems.
What is The Social Gospel Movement?
300
He Co-Founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Who was W.E.B DuBois
300
The era that brought many changes and reforms to American society
What is the Progressive Era?
300
She started the Settlement House movement; her "Hull" house was designed to assimilate immigrants into American culture by teaching them how to read and write in English.
Who is Jane Addams?
300
Federal law enacted to require the U.S. Treasury to buy 4.5 million ounces of silver each month
What is the Sherman Silver Purchase Act?
300
Government system of letting big business do what it wants?
What is Laissez Faire?
400
Created the National Park Program during his presidency
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
400
This act attempted to break up monopolies, but didn't clearly define what a monopoly actually was.
What was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
400
Law passed to protect the food and medicines Americans consumed thanks to Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle"
What is the Pure Food and Drug Administration?
400
Muckraker who exposed the Standard Oil Monopoly?
Who is Ida Tarbell?
400
Areas noted by the rise of steam power, factories, railroad usage to increase manufacturing powerhouses?
What is Urban Centers?
500
Muckraker Upton Sinclair wrote a book after he uncovered the horrendous conditions within the meat industry.
What is The Jungle?
500
Made it illegal to buy products from companies who employed child labor' the first attempt to address child labor in America.
What was the Child Labor Act?
500
What law does this image refer to?
What is the Chinese Exclusionary Act?
500
Political machine that dominated New York politics through corruption and manipulation.
What is Tammany Hall?
500
Established centralized banking system in the United States?
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
600
The ruling of Plessy vs Fergeson stated seperate was equal and allowed this to take place.
What is segregation?
600
An initative to have citizens expand west and resettle by providing incentives of cheap land.
What was the Homestead Act?
600
This was the era BEFORE the progressive era
What is the Gilded Age
600
Labor Group founded by Samuel Grompers who served to protect the workforce of skilled laborers (like carpenters, plumbers, etc).
What is the American Federation of Labor?
600
political, social, and economic ideology that favors the interest of the established, native born citizens over those of immigrants
What is Nativism?