The Progressive Era
The Knights of Labor was one of our country's first labor unions. Who were welcomed as members?
women, African Americans, farmers, factory workers
What African American newspaper helped promote the Great Migration?
The Chicago Defender
What organization was formed by Lucy Stone in 1869?
American Woman Suffrage Association
I am a conservationist. I worked to establish two National Parks in 1890.
Who is John Muir?
What change to the constitution gave women the right to vote?
The Knights of Labor was one of our country's first labor unions. Who was NOT welcome to be a part of this union?
Immigrants
What organization was formed by Ida Wells-Barnett and W.E.B. Du Bois?
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
The Seneca Fall Convention created a "Declaration of Sentiments" stating that all men and women were created equal. What document were they based on?
The Declaration of Independence
I wrote "The Jungle" to reveal horrible working conditions in the meat packing industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
What 1848 meeting was held to discuss women's rights?
Seneca Falls Convention
What labor union organized its members by skill?
AFL (American Federation of Labor)
What school did Booker T. Washington start to teach African Americans practical skills?
Tuskegee Institute
The right to vote is called:
I became president in 1901 and created the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to break big trusts into smaller businesses.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
The US involvement in which event led many people to believe women should have full suffrage?
World War I
A group of writers who helped spread Progressive ideas in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
Who were Muckrakers?
Homer Plessy's Supreme Court case established what principle?
The Separate but Equal principal
What state was the first to give women full suffrage?
Wyoming
I was born in Mississippi in 1862 and both my parents were slaves. I worked to end violence against African Americans and started an organization to help African Americans traveling north during the Great Migration. I also founded the first voting rights club for African American women.
Who was Ida Wells-Barnett?
This is the term that refers to a person who replaces a worker who is on strike?
A strikebreaker
This law required companies to reveal the ingredients in their products.
Pure Food and Drug Act
What laws made segregation legal?
Jim Crow laws
As more women graduated from college, name two occupations they filled.
nurses, professors, librarians, social workers, lawyers, doctors, writers, telephone operators, or worked in large offices
I worked to tell people about the danger of trusts in my book The History of the Standard Oil Company.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
What state was the 36th state to ratify the amendment giving women the right to vote thus allowing it to become the 19th amendment to the constitution on August 24, 1920?
Tennessee