Workplace Reform
Why were they trying to reform the workplace?
Long Hours, Low Wages, Dangerous Working Conditions
Laws that were put into place to be separate but equal?
Jim Crow Laws
Women who discovered lynchings were happening across the US?
Ida B. Wells
Who were the investigative journalists who exposed corruption?
Muckrakers
What is progressivism?
Progressives addressed the rapid economic & social changes of the Gilded Age.
What year did Labor Unions start?
1897
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People called?
NAACP
Why were women so against alcohol?
Husbands working, cheating, saftey
First person to expose Poverty & slums?
Jacob Riis
What was passed to ban mislabeled or impure foods?
Pure Food and Drug Act
What was one of the things that people organized to get their point across?
Strikes or Protests
What were some of the qualifications for Blacks to vote?
Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, Property Qualifications
A person who came up with the Hull House
Jane Addams
Who was the journalist who revealed Rockefeller's ruthless business practices?
Ida Tarbell's
What are some of the reforms in the progressive era?
Poverty, Child Labor, Factory Saftey, Women's Rights, Temperance & Political Corruption
What event in New York helped workplace reform?
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Two men who were part of the NAACP and had different opinions on what African Americans should get?
Booker T. Washington & W.E.B DuBois
What amendment gave women their voting rights?
19th Amendment
What was the book's name that talked about the meat inspection act?
The Jungle
What act helped dissolve monopolies?
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
What industrial advances happened that sped up production?
Mass Production
What percentage of blacks lived as sharecroppers?
80%
List some of the reforms that women came up with.
Education, Child Labor, Prohibition, Voting Rights
What was the point of muckraking journalism?
Shine a light on the social and economic problems in america.
What amendment ratified the 18th ammendment?
21st Amendment