Social Progressivism
What is suffrage?
The right to vote
What were investigative journalists who exposed corruption in business and government called?
Muckrakers
The 19th amendment gave ____ the right to vote.
Women
What is this a definition for:
"Equal opportunity and protections under the law regardless of race, national origin, ability, age, gender, or religion."
Civil rights
What is Prohibition?
The banning of making, selling, and transporting alcohol
What year were women given the right to vote?
1920
Progressive Reformers wanted to put children in school instead of allowing companies to use ______ labor. (Fill in the blank)
Child
The Pure Food and Drug Act was passed to create more regulations around the labeling and creation of _____ and _____. (Fill in the blank)
Food and Drugs
A law that mandated separation in the South by races was first enforced in the 1870s is called a ____.
Jim Crow Law
Organized crime spread to illegally transport _____ after the Prohibition amendment was ratified. (Fill in the blank)
Alcohol
A community center that provided services like education to poor urban citizens
Settlement House
How many hours a week was considered "normal" after Progressive reform?
40 hours
Which amendment was the only amendment to be reversed or repealed?
The Prohibition Amendment or the 18th Amendment
This person believed that education and protesting inequality/injustice was the best method to protest inequality. He wrote a book criticizing another well known civil rights activist of the time.
W.E.B DuBois
True or false: Prohibition was successful
False
Overcrowded and unsanitary living quarters for many of the urban poor.
A Tenement
The Meat Inspection Act was passed after the release of "The ____" by Upton Sinclair. (Fill in the blank)
Jungle
The _____ act reduced work time to 40 hours a week for railroad workers.
Adamson
This person believed that to gain civil rights, people should increase education in job skills and temporarily accepting segregation until division between races was broken down.
Booker T. Washington
What was the argument often used to advocate for prohibition?
They believed alcohol was immoral and/or harmed families
Give 2 things that reformers advocated for in efforts to improve living conditions
Advocated for building codes (fire, ventelation, etc) and improved sanitation
What was one problem about meat packing factories mentioned in "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair?
Examples include:
- Rats or rat poison in meat
- People missing limbs or limbs going into meat
- Dropping meat onto the floor
- Unsafe and unsanitary working conditions
What did the 17th amendment do?
Allows Americans to directly choose (vote) for their own senators instead of state legislatures/gave more power to American voters.
What does the NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
What was a similarity between the Prohibition and Suffragette Movement?
They often shared the same members