Women's Movement
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
This 1906 law was passed to regulate the preparation of foods and medicines, ensuring products were safe for public consumption.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This term describes journalists who exposed corruption and societal issues during the Progressive Era.
What are muckrakers?
The separation of people on the basis of race.
What is segregation?
While the Progressive Era saw reforms for many groups, this group continued to face disenfranchisement and segregation, particularly in the South.
Who are African Americans?
This amendment, ratified in 1920, granted women the right to vote in the United States.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This landmark piece of legislation, passed in 1890, was the first federal law to prohibit monopolies and encourage competition.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Known for her exposé on John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company, this muckraker highlighted corporate corruption.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
Enacted by Southern state and local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilities.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Though the Progressive Era passed laws to protect workers, these laws did not fully address the needs of this group, who continued to face poor wages and unsafe conditions.
Who are immigrant workers?
She was a leading suffragist who co-founded the National Woman's Party and organized parades and hunger strikes to demand voting rights for women.
Who is Alice Paul?
This 1913 law created a central banking system to regulate the nation's economy and stabilize the financial system.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
This photographer’s book, How the Other Half Lives, revealed the harsh living conditions in New York City tenements.
Who is Jacob Riis?
An 1896 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that separation of the races in public accommodations was legal, thus establishing the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Despite Progressive efforts, this group of Americans faced continued displacement, loss of land through the Dawes Allotment Act, and poor living conditions during this era.
Who are Native Americans?
This activist and founder of the birth control movement advocated for women's reproductive rights and opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S.
Who is Margaret Sanger?
A result of Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, this act regulated the meatpacking industry to ensure sanitary conditions.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
This journalist’s book, The Jungle, exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This journalist and activist dedicated her life to exposing the horrors of lynching in America and advocating for federal anti-lynching legislation.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This movement, which advocated for the forced sterilization of people deemed "unfit," was a controversial and harmful aspect of the Progressive Era.
What is the eugenics movement?
This reformer fought for child labor laws, a minimum wage for women, and co-founded the National Consumers League to promote workers' rights.
Who is Florence Kelley?
This constitutional amendment, ratified in 1913, allowed the federal government to collect income taxes directly from citizens.
What is the 16th Amendment?
This magazine was a leading outlet for muckraking journalism, publishing works by writers like Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell.
What is McClure's Magazine?
This organization, founded in 1909, aimed to fight racial discrimination and advance civil rights for African Americans.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
This practice, often directed at African Americans, was allowed to persist despite Progressive Era calls for social reform and equality.
What is racial segregation?