Industrialization
his natural resource boom fueled late 19th-century industrial growth, particularly in steel and railroads.
What is coal and iron ore?
The rise of industrial capitalism contributed to these poor living conditions for urban workers.
What are slums and tenements?
Progressives aimed to reduce corruption in this level of government.
What is local or municipal government?
The 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act aimed to improve safety in these products.
What are food and medicines?
Progressives were partially successful in limiting working hours, especially for this group.
Who are women and children?
This invention by Thomas Edison revolutionized urban life and factory production.
What is the electric light bulb?
This system of economic organization allowed businesses to reduce competition by controlling an entire industry.
What is a monopoly?
This journalist-led style of reporting exposed societal problems like slums and corruption.
What is muckraking?
This 16th Amendment allowed the federal government to collect income tax.
What is the income tax amendment?
Despite reforms, this form of racial discrimination persisted in the South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
The growth of these large-scale companies often led to monopolies during the Gilded Age
What are trusts or corporations?
Laborers formed these organizations to fight for better wages and working conditions.
What are labor unions?
The movement sought to expand this democratic principle, giving citizens more direct influence over legislation.
What is democracy (or political reform like the initiative, referendum, and recall)?
The 17th Amendment changed how this type of officials were elected.
What are U.S. Senators?
This Progressive-era amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The expansion of this network allowed raw materials to reach factories and finished goods to reach markets more efficiently.
What is the railroad system?
The widespread use of child labor in factories led to growing calls for this type of reform.
What is labor reform or child labor laws?
Progressives wanted to protect this group from exploitation in factories and sweatshops.
Who are children and women?
This conservationist president created national parks and promoted environmental protection.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Many reformers failed to fully regulate this sector of big business, leaving some monopolies intact.
What is industry or corporate trusts?
This term describes the rapid growth of cities due to industrialization.
What is urbanization?
This major 1894 strike of railroad workers highlighted tensions between labor and federal government intervention.
What is the Pullman Strike?
This social philosophy argued that government should intervene to improve society and reduce inequality.
What is social welfare or progressivism?
This act broke up monopolies under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
What is trust-busting?
The Progressive Movement had limited influence over these rural and immigrant populations.
Who are farmers and recent immigrants?