Progressive Era Basics
This political movement aimed to use government action to fix problems caused by industrialization and urbanization.
What is the Progressive Era?
These investigative journalists "raked the muck" of society to expose problems.
Who are the muckrakers?
This 1906 law required accurate labeling of food and drugs.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
She founded Hull House in Chicago in 1889.
Who is Jane Addams?
This president became known as the “trustbuster.”
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This term described the era from the 1870s–1890s where wealth hid widespread poverty.
What is the Gilded Age?
This photographer exposed NYC tenement conditions in How the Other Half Lives
Who is Jacob Riis?
Passed in 1890, this law attempted to outlaw monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This reformer improved conditions for the mentally ill in the mid-1800s.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
He used the federal government to break up “bad trusts,” regulate railroads, and conserve land.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Ratified in 1913, this amendment made U.S. senators elected by popular vote.
What is the Seventeenth Amendment?
She exposed Rockefeller’s unfair business practices in The Rise of the Standard Oil Company.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This strengthened antitrust laws in 1914 and closed loopholes.
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?
These neighborhood centers provided education, recreation, and advocacy for immigrants.
What are settlement houses?
This president dissolved the Standard Oil Company through legal action.
Who is William Howard Taft?
This Wisconsin leader known as “Fighting Bob” championed direct primaries and political reforms.
Who is Robert La Follette?
His novel The Jungle exposed unsafe meatpacking practices.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This 1916 law attempted to regulate child labor before being struck down.
What is the Keating–Owen Child Labor Act?
This photographer for the NCLC exposed child labor nationwide.
Who is Lewis Hine?
This president passed major economic reforms and supported labor laws including child labor bans.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This phrase refers to a group controlling city politics through bribery and intimidation.
What is a political machine?
This political cartoonist attacked Boss Tweed and helped expose corruption.
Who is Thomas Nast?
This tragic 1911 event led to sweeping workplace safety reforms.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
This organization formed in 1904 pushed for federal child labor laws.
What is the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC)?
This socialist ran for president five times and received 6% of the vote in 1912.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?