Key Events
What tragedy exposed unsafe working conditions in factories?
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
Who exposed urban poverty in How the Other Half Lives?
Jacob Riis
What laws enforced racial segregation?
Jim Crow laws.
What movement fought for women’s right to vote?
Women’s suffrage.
What amendment allowed citizens to directly elect U.S senators?
The 17th Amendment.
Which activist led anti-lynching campaigns?
Ida B. Wells
What organization was founded in 1909 to fight racial injustice?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
What earlier convention began the women’s rights movement?
Seneca Falls Convention
What major corporation was broken up after a lawsuit that later influenced trust-busting?
Standard Oil.
Who founded the Sierra Club and supported national parks?
John Muir
Name one founder of the NAACP.
W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, or Mary Church Terrell.
What amendment resulted from the suffrage movement?
The 19th Amendment.
What supreme court case legalize segregation during the progressive era?
Plessy v. Ferguson.
Who coined the term, "What would Jesus do?"
Charles M. Sheldon
Which reformer exposed lynching through investigative journalism?
Ida B. Wells
Who co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association?
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
This environmental controversy involved building a dam in Yosemite National Park.
The Hetch Hetchy controversy.
Who promoted conservation and sustainable resource use?
Gifford Pinchot
Which activist believed in immediate equality and higher education for African Americans?
W. E. B. Du Bois
Which other reform movements did Susan B. Anthony support?
Abolition and temperance.