Progressive Era
Unequal Opportunities for African Americans
Fight for Women's Rights
Vocabulary
Important People
100

Big companies that owned big factories and joined together to drive other companies out of business 

What are trusts?

100
The purpose of Jim Crow Laws

What is segregation? ("Separate but Equal" Idea)

100

How most women felt about getting more rights

What is it would make their lives richer, it was necessary 

100

The right to vote

What is Suffrage?
100

He was a conservationist and broke up trusts

Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
200

Some of the things factories were/did to workers

What is dangerous, dirty, low-paying, long hours, injured/killed

200

The Great Migration 

What is African American moving from rural areas to cities?

200

New roles for women

What is working jobs, going to school

200

A replacement worker who took over the jobs of people on strike

What is a strikebreaker?

200

A man who went to went to court to fight segregation

Who is Homer Plessy?

300

Groups that formed to fix the problems created by factories

What are unions?

300

Ida B. Wells supported the end of...

What is violence against African Americans?

300

Reasons women wanted the right to vote

What is to help chose government leaders who would support women's equality (owning property, going to school, equal pay, etc.) and make their lives better

300

A writer who helped spread the Progressive message and told the truth about different industries

What is a muckraker?

300

A woman who started the Hull Houses to help people learn English

Who is Jane Addams?

400

Another goal of Progressives (besides better working conditions)

What is help those no one wanted to help/protecting and saving the wilderness?

400

African Americans hoped for this when they moved to cities

What is better jobs and living conditions?

400

A meeting organized to talk about women's rights 

What is the Seneca Falls Convention?

400

A call for people to stop or reduce drinking alcohol

What is temperance?

400

He believed that African Americans needed to be educated and that would help them get jobs. 

Who is Booker T. Washington?

500

This happened at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory that made people demand change in factories

What is a fire that killed over 100 people?

500

The institute that Booker T. Washington founded to educate African Americans

What is the Tuskegee Institute?

500

The amendment that gave women the right to vote in all states

What is the 19th Amendment?

500

The legal guarantees that all citizens should have under the Constitution 

What are civil rights?

500

She was one of the major figures in the fight for women's rights, she helped found the National Woman Suffrage Association 

Who is Susan B. Anthony