Vocabulary
a social and political movement in the early 1900s that focused on improving conditions in American life
What is the Progressive Movement
“the opportunities of all its people are more equal … [and] human life is safer and sweeter.”
Who is Robert La Follette
Fought for Workers Rights
Who is Mother Jones
Man who made a fortune in the steel industry
Who is Andrew Carnage
relating to or supporting extreme change
What is a Radical
“Slowly his hours are shortened, giving him leisure to read and to think,” she wrote. “Slowly the cause of his children becomes the cause of all.”
Who is Mother Jones
Wrote the Jungle and uncovered all the bad things in the Food industry
Who is Upton Sinclair
Man who made a fortune in Oil
Who is John D Rockefeller
the theory that people and societies compete for survival, with the fit becoming wealthy and successful, while the weak struggle to survive
What is Social Darwinism
"and the packers would put poisoned bread out for them; they would die, and then rats, bread, and meat would go into the hoppers together."
Who is Upton Sinclair
Wanted to help end Racism and segregation of Black people
Who is W.E.B. Dubois
the NAACP
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
government regulations control the way goods, foods, and drugs are produced and sold to the public.
What is regulation
“physically free from peonage [servitude], mentally free from ignorance, politically free from disenfranchisement [denial of rights], and socially free from insult.”
Who is W.E.B. Dubois
Fought for Women's Rights
Who is Ida B Wells
to dominate and eliminate all other competition in the business world
What is a monopoloy
the right to vote
What is Suffrage
“The great development of industrialism means that there must be an increase in the supervision exercised by the Government over business enterprise.”
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Who is Teddy Roosevelt
The President that helped make laws to protect the environment
Who is Teddy Roosevelt
organizations that hepled protect workers
What are labor Unions
the Constitutional amendment that gave the right to vote to women.
What is the 19th Amendment