Progressive Era People
Terms
Dates & Events
Muckrakers
Laws, Acts, etc...
Potpourri
100
The first of the "progressive presidents" who passed The Pure Food and Drug Act that created the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
100
The right to vote.
What is Suffrage
100
March 25th, 1911, this event claimed the lives of 146 people and forced companies to make working conditions safer.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
100
A Photo-journalist whose book exposed "How the Other Half Lives".
Who is Jacob Riis?
100
Law passed to protect the food and medicines Americans consumed.
The Pure Food and Drug Act
100
This is the section of the country where advances in suffrage took hold first.
What is the West?
200
She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1900 to 1904 and 1915 to 1920.
Who is Carrie Chapman Catt?
200
The investigative journalists and writers who exposed the injustices of American business practices and social inequities during the Progressive Era.
What are "muckrakers"?
200
With a wild title, in 1906 Upton Sinclair's book, is published exposing the horrors of the meatpacking industry.
What is "The Jungle"
200
Established the Hull House in Chicago.
Who is Jane Addams?
200
The novel led to the passage of The Meat Inspection Act of 1906 ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under strictly regulated sanitary conditions.
What is The Jungle?
200
The manufacture, sale, and consumption of this became officially illegal in 1920.
What is alcohol?
300
He was the only Democrat of the "progressive presidents".
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
300
They were the picketers who stood in front of the White House 6 days a week, 8 hours a day for over a year.
What were the "Silent Sentinels"?
300
November 5th, 1912 saw him elected to the presidency defeating Republican incumbent Taft, Bull Moose's T. Roosevelt, and Socialist Party's E. Deb.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
300
Lewis Hine, also a photo-journalist, showed the incredibly difficult conditions faced by these laborers.
What were Child Laborers?
300
He helped ensure the passage of Payne-Aldrich Act (1909), which did not lower tariffs as much as his predecessor hoped and he also pushed Congress to pass the Mann-Elkins Act (1910), which gave the government control over telephone and telegraph rates.
Who is William Howard Taft?
300
When a business controls every aspect of an industry. This causes a lack of competition and raises prices for consumers.
Monopolies
400
Civil Rights leader credited with starting The Tuskegee Institute. He believed that through hard work and building economic power, African Americans can achieve equality.
Booker T Washington
400
A "geometric shaped" domestic agenda presented by President Teddy Roosevelt involved: regulating large business, protecting consumers, and to conserving natural resources.
What is the Square Deal?
400
Officially ratified on February 3, 1913, this one-time wish of the Populist Party becomes a reality with the passage of the 16th Amendment.
What is the Income Tax?
400
Considered the person who created the nickname, "muckraker" but also recognized the social benefits of these investigative journalists.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
400
Initiatives, referendums, and recall elections were supported by the Progressives as ways to increase citizen participation in the
political process.
400
Roosevelt worked with Congress to establish five of these as well as recognizing national monuments and historical landmarks under the Antiquities Act of 1906.
What are National Parks?
500
The second of the "progressive presidents" who, according to his predecessor, wasn't progressive enough.
Who was Howard Taft?
500
Created by the person in the photo below, it was a single issue political party intent on passage of a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote.
What is the National Women's Party (NWP)?
500
Supported by Wilson and passed on December 23, 1913, it created a central banking system for the United States which set in motion a new currency system aimed at both strengthening and regulating the nation's currency and financial system.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
500
He can be considered an early muckraker and used his political cartoons to expose the corruption and graft of the Tammany Hall political machine in New York city
Thomas Nast
500
Used by the Progressive presidents, It was passed in 1890 to end monopolies and trusts market manipulation of products and prices.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
500
His assassination made then Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt.
Who is William McKinley?
600
He, along with people like Ida B Wells, helps found the NAACP in his push for equal economic, social, and political rights for African Americans as soon as possible. Quite the antithesis of Booker T. Washington.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
600
A very large horned ruminant, or a third political party started by Teddy Roosevelt after he failed to get the Republican nomination for president.
What was the "Bull Moose Party"?
600
Officially ratified on August 18th, 1920, this amendment guaranteed women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
600
A "muckrakers" whose articles for McClure's Magazine exposed the unfair business practices of Standard Oil as well as exposing John D. Rockefeller as a greedy monopolist.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
600
The Act was signed into law by US President Woodrow Wilson in 1914 and outlaws unfair methods of competition and unfair acts or practices that affect businesses.
What is The Federal Trace Commission (FTC)
600
This was Wilson's campaign platform that focused on three key areas; Tariff Reform, Banking Reform, and Trust-busting. He wanted to create an economy that would be fair and equitable for all Americans.
What is New Freedom?
700
He was considered to be the person behind the Social Gospel Movement which helped promote and support many social movements of the Progressive Era.
Who was Walter Rauschenbusch?
700
It's passage created the 18th Amendment which prohibited the production, distribution, and sale of alcohol. It unintentionally supported criminal activities and crime "families".
What is the Volstead Act?
700
Ratified on April 8th, 1913 the 17th Amendment changed the Constitution and allowed for these to be directly elected by the people of each state.
What is Senators?
700
Frank Norris wrote the book, The Octopus, about the plight faced by the "scarecrows" in the middle of the country.
What are Farmers?
700
Passed in 1906, it allowed the federal government to regulate railroad rates and set maximum prices for ferries, bridge tolls, and oil pipelines
What is The Hepburn Act?
700
Famous early 20th Century Activist that did the following: Led the American Railway Union, Ran for U.S. president five times as the Socialist Party nominee, and co-founded the IWW - the Industrial Works of the World union.
Eugene Debs