Social Reforms
Housing set up to help those poor in need.
What is Settlement Houses?
Investigative journalists who exposed corruption in business and government.
What is Muckrakers.
Teddy Roosevelt
Who was the "Trustbuster?"
When children work for a living.
What is Child Labor?
A time when alcohol was banned.
What is Prohibition?
Famous court case that confirmed segregation in the US, severely limiting civil rights reform.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
An addition to the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
People that care about the protection of the environment.
What is an environmentalist or conservationist?
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
When workers refuse to work until their demands are met.
What is a strike?
Person that founded the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
19th Amendment
What is the amendment that gave women suffrage?
Carry Nation
Who was the women that was known to show up to places of business that served alcohol with a hatchet?
Antiquities Act
What is the environmental law that Teddy Roosevelt supported that protected historical lands?
An organization that works to improve the lives of workers.
What is Labor Union?
DAILY DOUBLE!!! Name an event that inspired the reform movement during the Progressive Era.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
DAILY DOUBLE!!! Name the amendment that repealed Prohibition.
What is the 21st amendment?
DAILY DOUBLE!! Name two women that led the fight for women to obtain suffrage.
Who is Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
DAILY DOUBLE!!! Explain what are two problems that occur when there is a monopoly on an industry.
What is no competition and no guarantee on the quality of goods?
When one person or company controls an entire industry.
What is a monopoly?
Temperance Movement
What movement worked to ban alcohol?
When the government creates laws to fix a problem in society.
What is political reform?
AFL-CIO
What is the name of the huge organization that fought to protect all American workers? Hint: It came from the combination of two unions.
Name three issues that labor unions fought to improve for the American worker in factories.
What is higher wages, less hours, and safe working conditions?
A time of major reform and change in the United States.
What is the Progressive Era?