Corruption & Progessive Movement Flashcards
Granger Cases
a series of cases that resulted in states being able to regulate intrastate trade but not interstate
Sustenance wages
wages that ensure you can survive and go back to work the next day
factory towns
towns where workers lived around the factory
Homestead strike
industrial lockout and strike at a steel mill in Pennsylvania
Haymarket Affair
a labor protest rally in Chicago that escalated when someone threw a bomb at the police
Pullman Strike
strike by American Railway Union against Pullman factory that failed, which prompted ARU to launch a national boycott against all trains that used Pullman cars
Plessy vs Ferguson (1896)
Court case that said segregation is legal as long as facilities are equal
Progessive Movement
umbrella term for multiple movements in the era
What were the four movements of the progressive movement
women’s suffrage, child labor & education, prohibition, unionization
which movement was inherently nativist?
prohibition due to European stereotypes
Muckrakers
progressive authors that exposed social problems in magazines
Jacob Riis
wrote How the Other Half Lives with photographs of the living conditions in Lower Manhattan
Upton Sinclair
wrote The Jungle to expose the meat industry.
Mary “Mother” Jones
advocate for children and factories. wanted better working conditions for adults to help children as well as education
Susan B. Anthony
the main suffragette from the mid-1800s to early 1900s
Jane Addams
created the Hull House with her own money
Ida B. Wells
An African-American woman who spoke out against corruption and racism in the women’s suffrage movement but was told to be quiet by White feminists.
Robert Lafollette
the governor of Wisconsin who targetted industry in their state as they tried to regulate national industry prior to the Granger Cases
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
had a fire that killed 146 young women that prompted the passage of safety codes nationwide and mandated that all buildings in Manhattan to have fire escapes
What did the prohibition movement lead to?
It led to underground crime and gangs profiting off of illegal alcohol.
What two presidents won the Nobel Peace Prize in this era and for what?
TR won the prize for the Treaty of Portsmouth between Japan and Russia in New Hampshire.
Wilson won the prize for ending the first World War and creating the League of Nations.
What was TR’s Square Deal?
TR’s square deal was his plan as president which included regulating transportation, breaking trusts, conservation, and
