Muckrakers
Muckrakers investigated and ____ problems in society during the Progressive Era
Children working in factories and mines instead of going to school
What is child labor?
The temperance movement tried to reduce/ban ____
Any action people take to show they want change
What is a protest?
The years of the Progressive Era
What is 1890-1920?
The man who coined the term "muckraker"
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Issue spreading fast in city neighborhoods
What is disease?
Time period when alcohol was illegal in the U.S.
What is prohibition?
Women who fought for the right to vote
What is a suffragist?
OR
What is a suffragette?
Fixing or improving something
What is reform?
The book that exposed the meatpacking industry
Crowded, poorly built, dirty apartment buildings where many poor families lived
What are tenements?
Illegal, hidden, secret bars
What are speakeasies?
The amendment that was passed in 1920, granting women the right to vote
What is the 19th amendment?
People during the Progressive Era who supported reform and believed the government should help fix problems
Who were progressives?
Photographer who showed the public how children were treated in factories and mines
Who is Lewis Hine?
Groups workers formed to fight for better wages and safer working conditions
What are labor unions?
The amendment that banned alcohol in the United States
What is the 18th amendment?
Refusing to buy or use something
What is boycotting?
Many reforms focused on protecting consumers, workers, and _____
What are children?
Journalist who wrote about unsafe and dirty meatpacking factories
Who is Upton Sinclair?
An act that made food safer to eat in the U.S.
What is the meat inspection act?
OR
What is the pure food and drug act?
The amendment that ended Prohibition and repealed the 18th amendment
What is the 21st amendment?
Standing quietly with signs in one place
What is silent sentinel?
The goal of the Progressive Era was to make society ____, fairer, and healthier
What is safer?