Foundations of Progressivism
This movement aimed to fix the social, political, and economic problems caused by industrialization and the Gilded Age.
What is Progressivism?
Journalists who exposed corruption, unsafe conditions, and social problems during the Progressive Era.
Who are muckrakers?
This 1911 tragedy killed 146 workers and exposed unsafe factory conditions.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
This president promised Americans a “Square Deal.”
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Progressives believed the ________ should play an active role in solving social and economic problems.
What is the government?
This photographer exposed urban poverty in How the Other Half Lives.
Who is Jacob Riis?
One major labor reform Progressives fought for that restricted children from working long factory hours.
What are child labor laws?
This settlement house in Chicago was led by Jane Addams.
What is Hull House?
Name Roosevelt’s "3 C’s" that represented his idea of a Square Deal.
What are control of corporations, consumer protection, or conservation?
Group of reformers that thought Christianity should be the basis of social reform.
The Social Gospel Movement
This author’s book The Jungle led to food safety reforms.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This group grew in membership as workers organized to demand better wages and conditions.
What are labor unions?
The Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) led the temperance movement and blamed __________ for social problems.
What is alcohol?
President Wilson refer to these three things as the 'triple wall of privilege.'
Tariffs, Banks, and Trusts
This earlier reform movement focused on farmers and influenced Progressive ideas about government action.
What is Populism?
These two laws were passed after muckrakers exposed unsafe food and medicine.
What are the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Progressives pushed for ________________, shorter workdays, and minimum wage to protect workers.
What are safety regulations?
This amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This act created a central banking system to stabilize the economy.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
Progressives wanted to reduce corruption by shifting political power away from ________ and toward everyday citizens.
Who are political bosses/political machines?
Ida Tarbell is best known for exposing the business practices of this powerful oil company.
What is Standard Oil?
The time period when the 18th Amendment banned the production and sale of alcohol.
What is Prohibition?
This type of community center provided education, healthcare, and childcare in urban neighborhoods during the Progressive Era.
What is a settlement house?
This law strengthened antitrust regulations and protected labor unions.
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?