Module 5.1

Key Terms/Goals

100

This was a reform movement that wanted to return the control of the government to the people, to restore economic opportunities, to to correct injustices in society overall.

Progressive Movement

200

This was a goal of the Progressive Era that focused on curbing the difficulties created by industrialization and helping correct unjust living situations in many ways.

Protecting Social Welfare

300

This was a goal of the Progressive Era that focused on helping people live better, more virtuous lives, in order to create a better reality for everyone.

Promoting Moral Improvement

400

This was a goal of the Progressive Era that focused on making sure everyone had an equal opportunity to make a good living and to hold corporations, businesses, and tycoons accountable to fair practices.

Creating Economic Reform

500

This was a goal of the Progressive Era that focused on looking for expertise and better systems (and ideas) to help government and society run better.

Fostering Efficiency

People

100

This person was an advocate for improving the lives of women and children.  She helped get the Illinois Factory Act passed (which prohibited child labor and limited women’s working hours in Illinois).

Florence Kelley

200

This is the name for a journalist whose goal is to expose bad things happening in society, business, and government.

Muckraker

300

This was the leader of the American Socialist Party during the Progressive Era.

Eugene V. Debs

400

This is the person who utilized scientific management and an assembly line in his factory.  He was able to make a lot of products cheaply and efficiently.  His workers were paid well but the jobs sometimes caused repetitive injuries and were horribly boring.

Henry Ford

500

She was a journalist who worked hard to expose the shady business practices of John D. Rockefellar.

Ida M. Tarbell

Legal

100

This was the banning of the manufacture, sale, and possession of alcoholic beverages.

Prohibition

200

This is the Amendment that allowed the direct election of Senators.

17th

300

This is a vote that allows voters to remove a public official from an elected position by forcing them to face another election before the end of their term if the voters ask for it.

A Recall

400

This is a bill that was originated by the people.

Initiative

500

This is the legal term for a vote on a bill that was originated by the people.

Referendum

Organizations

100

This is the name for the movement that created settlement houses and prioritized serving the poor.

The Social Gospel Movement

200

This was the name for an organization that provided libraries, sponsored classes, built swimming pools, other recreation activities so that people could have a productive place to spend time, learn, and build community.

YMCA - Young Men's Christian Association

300

This was the organization that worked to help feed the poor and care for children in nurseries.  It also sent groups of people out to tenements to instruct poor people.

The Salvation Army

400

This was the name of the group of women who worked hard to ban alcohol by going into saloons and singing, praying, and asking the owners to stop selling alcohol.

Or, you could name the group that did similar things (but was more aggressive) and who sponsored laws banning alcohol.

Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

OR

Anti-Saloon League

500

This was the term used for groups of people sent out by an organization to instruct poor immigrants in middle-class values of hard work and temperance.

"Slum Brigades" from the Salvation Army