Progressive Era 1
Progressive Era 2
Progressive Era 3
Progressive Era 4
Progressive Era 5
Progressive Era 6
100
This event claimed the lives of 146 people and forced companies to make working conditions safer.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
100
This is the name for work done by children, often in factories or mines.
What is child labor?
100
The movement to give women the right to vote was known as what?
What is the Suffrage Movement?
100
Journalists who exposed corruption in cities during the Progressive Era.
What are Muckrakers?
100
Reformers wanted laws that would keep children out of dangerous jobs and require them to do this.
What is go to school?
100
This is the name for the growth of cities as more people move to them.
What is urbanization?
200
This word means making changes to fix problems or improve things.
What is reform?
200
This journalist wrote How the Other Half Lives, which showed the harsh living conditions of many poor city residents.
Who is Jacob Riis?
200
During the Progressive Era, did the role of the federal government get bigger or smaller?
What is Bigger?
200
Teddy Roosevelt's policy for relationships with other nations was called Big _____ diplomacy.
What is Stick?
200
He worked as undercover muckraker in a meat-packing plant and wrote the book The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
200
Gilded Age cities, these groups, such as New York's Tammany Hall, gave jobs and favors to voters in exchange for their votes, and often took part in corruption.
What are political machines?
300
This settlement house founded by Jane Addams offered services to immigrants and people living in a Chicago neighborhood.
What is the Hull House?
300
The era that brought many changes and reforms to American society.
What is the Progressive Era
300
This automaker introduced the moving assembly line in 1913, which made the Model T cheaper and faster to build.
Who is Henry Ford?
300
This amendment banned alcohol in the U.S.
What is the 18th Amendment.
300
When a business controls every aspect of an industry. This causes a lack of competition and raises prices for consumers.
What are Monopolies?
300
This journalist investigated and wrote about the violence of lynching, especially against Black Americans.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
400
This is the section of the country where advances in suffrage took hold first.
What is the West?
400
The _____ anti trust act was an attempt to break up monopolies.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
400
The Amendment that gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
400
The Supreme Court ruled that women could only work 10 hour days.
What is Mueller v. Oregon?
400
This type of law sets a minimum age for workers or limits the hours children can work.
What is a child labor law?
400
300 This steel tycoon gave away most of his fortune, paying for more than 2,500 public libraries and other projects.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
500
What is the name of the historical era known for both innovations and inequality?
What is the Gilded Age?
500
This businessman was involved in shipping and railroads. He helped build a University in Nashville TN
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
500
This New York law said that apartments had to have a bathroom in each apartment.
What is the Tenement House Act?
500
What law does this image refer to?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
500
The 1st Progressive president. As president he passed laws improving the meat industry and went after monopolies.
Who is Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt?
500
Workers at a factory refuse to work until the owner agrees to higher pay and shorter hours. What is this type of protest called?
What is a strike?
600
What is the name of the wealthy industrialist who loaned money to the United States government?
Who is J.P. Morgan?
600
This farmers' organization, started in the 1860s, worked to get fairer treatment and more government help for farmers.
What is the Granger Movement?
600
Many Gilded Age workers joined these groups to ask for better pay, shorter hours, and safer workplaces.
What are labor unions?
600
Law passed to protect the food and medicines Americans consumed.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
600
The urban, Christian movement said people had a moral duty to help solve society's problems and to help people who are struggling.
What is the Social Gospel Movement?
600
The manufacture, sale, and consumption of this became officially illegal in 1920.
What is alcohol?