Progressive Era Flashcards
Who were progressives?
Urban middle class, managers and professionals, women
When was the Progressive Era as a whole?
1890-1920
When was the Progressive Reform Era?
1901-1917
What were some problems that led to the progressive era?
Industrialization, urbanization, immigration, inequality, and social injustice.
What are the goals of the progressives?
Democracy- government accountable to the ppl
Regulation of corporations and monopolies
Social Injustice- workers, poor, minorities
Environmental protection
Who were the “muckrakers”?
People who investigate and find bad things and reveal them to the public.
Name three Muckrakers.
Jacob Riis- wrote How the Other Half Lives
Ida Tarbell- wrote The History of the Standard Oil Co. (1902)
Lincoln Steffans- wrote The Sahem of the Cities (1904)
What was the Underwood Simmons Tariff?
It lowered tariffs. lost revenue is replaced by graduated income tax. 16th amendment.
Current chairman of something?
Jerome Powell
Keating Owen Act?
Can’t transport goods made by children over enemy lines.
Lincoln Steffens?
Muckraker, the progressive method, “Tweed Days in St. Louis” Wrote that book about political machines in cities.
Louis Bran
