Food Safety
This 1906 law prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This tragic fire killed 146 factory workers in 1911.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
This photographer exposed the harsh realities of child labor.
Who is Lewis Hine?
This 1913 event drew attention to the suffrage cause in Washington, D.C.
What is the Women’s Suffrage Parade?
These journalists exposed corruption and social injustice.
Who are muckrakers?
He wrote The Jungle, which exposed unsafe conditions in the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Most victims of the Triangle Fire were...
Who are teenage immigrant girls?
This group was founded in 1904 to fight child labor.
What is the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC)?
This woman organized the 1913 parade.
Who is Alice Paul?
One of the four goals of the Progressive Era was to improve people's well-being. What was this goal called?
What is social welfare?
The novel The Jungle inspired President Roosevelt to pass these two laws.
What are the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This made the Triangle Fire especially deadly.
What is locked doors, poor fire escapes, and faulty equipment?
Lewis Hine's photos showed child laborers as this.
What are individuals/human beings?
This organization used a three-part strategy to promote suffrage.
What is the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)?
This goal of Progressivism involved making industry and government more effective.
What is fostering efficiency?
This was a major problem with “patent medicines” before regulation.
What is they were often ineffective and falsely advertised?
The fire led to laws improving this.
What is worker safety or workplace conditions?
Children often missed out on these two important life experiences.
What are education and a normal childhood?
Some antisuffragists believed women voting would harm this.
What is the family?
The Progressive Era aimed to improve morals through efforts like Prohibition. Name the goal.
What is moral reform?
The Pure Food and Drug Act led to the creation of this federal agency.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
Owners locked workers in to prevent this kind of activism.
What is union organizing?
The NCLC pushed for this type of child labor law.
What is a uniform national child labor law?
The NWP pressured President Wilson through these two tactics.
What are marches and picketing the White House?
One key economic reform goal of Progressivism was to reduce the power of these.
What are monopolies or large corporations?