It was a "Triangle" of horror as, doors were bolted shut, the sprinkler system failed, and the fire escape was faulty. This event claimed the lives of 146 people and forced companies to make working conditions safer.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Author of The Jungle, famous for his quote, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident hit it in the stomach."
Upton Sinclair
These journalists exposed corruption in cities during the Progressive Era in hopes of initiating change.
Muckrakers
What message is being conveyed by this cartoon?
The wealthy were dependent on the labor of the working class and the working class was largely underpaid and undervalued.
This African American writer and civil rights leader started an anti-lynching campaign
Ida B. Wells
Civil Rights leader that argued that African Americans should achieve their rights through focusing on job training and economic equality.
Who is Booker T Washington
During the Progressive Era, did lower and middle class Americans crave more or less government regulation?
More
This muckraker was the artist behind this drawing, and ultimately credited for taking down a major political boss.
Thomas Nast
This Jersey girl was head of the National Women's Party and her work was a very prominent reason the 19th Amendment was passed.
Alice Paul
The era that brought many changes and reforms to American Gilded Age.
Progressive Era
Law passed in 1906 to protect the food and medicines Americans consumed.
The Pure Food and Drug Act
W.E.B. DuBois co-founded a national organization for the advancement of African American citizens. What was that organization called.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(N.A.A.C.P)
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were the foremothers of this movement.
Women's Suffrage Movement.
*Regulation of railroad shipping charges
* A graduated income tax
* Free and unlimited coinage
These demands most reflected the concerns of...
Rural farmers
The need for this amendment was urged by organizations like the Women's Christian Temperance Movement.
18th Amendment
This club was founded by John Muir with a mission to preserve the environment and to promote conservation.
The Sierra Club
Restoring power to the people , this amendment allowed Americans to elect their own senators.
17th Amendment
The movement that said people had a moral duty to help solve society's problems and to help people who are struggling.
Social Gospel Movement
This commission regulated the railroads, telephones, and, telegraph companies, but would not see it's full potential until the Roosevelt administration.
Interstate Commerce Commission
Jane Addams founded a Settlement House named the Hull House in Chicago. What was one of the social services that she provided for immigrants and the needy?
The assimilation of immigrants, a place to live ,find a job, or get an education