Vocab
What is a Muckraker?
Journalists who exposed corruption, poverty, health hazards, and monopolies.
What was The Jungle about and who was the author?
The Jungle exposed the meat industry's unsanitary conditions written by Upton Sinclair.
How did the 19th Amendment contribute to women's rights?
It gave them the privilege to vote.
What was the Temperance Movement?
It was a movement to encourage consistent drinkers to resist temptation, and to prohibit alcohol completely.
What was the Social Gospel Movement?
A movement that taught people to honor God, and everyone must help each other to reform society. This gave people a sense of community.
What is a Social Worker?
Someone who works to make society better.
What famous Muckraker fought to create child labor laws?
Florence Kelley.
What was the famous movement to provide women with the right to vote?
The Suffrage Movement
Which amendment tried to ban alcohol across the entire country?
The 18th Amendment.
What was the name of the settlement house which offered baths, cheap food, child care, job training, and health care.
Hull House
What does the YMCA stand for?
Young Men's Christian Association.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
A factory fire that killed 146 workers and injured dozens more. While trying to escape the fire they encountered locked doors and broken fire escapes.
What 5 female muckrakers contributed to helping Women, and getting them their rights?
Jane Addams, Ida Tarbell, Margaret Sanger, Carrie Nation, and Florence Kelley
voting dry means voting for a ban on alcohol. voting wet means voting for no ban on alcohol.
Jane Addams
What was the progressive era?
It sought to address the problems caused by rapid industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption as well as the enormous concentration of industrial ownership in monopolies. Progressive reformers were alarmed by the spread of slums, poverty, and the exploitation of labor.
Which business owner was exposed for treating workers terribly?
What does the NAWSA stand for?
What Muckraker would to go to bars with an axe, slamming it on the bar, demanding they stop serving her husband alcohol.
Carrie Nation.
What was the Salvation Army?
It provided shelter, and food for the slum dwelling poor.