Progressive Era Flashcards
How did Vertical Integration cut corporation costs?
you control all phases of production of your product to make money
what did horizontal integration lead to?
Monopolies
how did the sherman anti trust act help the american people?
it prevented the formation of monopolies.
what does progressivism mean?
a reform movement that adressed social movements.
what problems were caused by industrialized that led to the progressive era?
the income gap between men and women
what were muckrakers?
reform writers who tried to expose ills of second industrial revolution.
four muckrakers during the gilded age
Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Stephens and Jacob Riis
modern day muckrakers
TMZ and US Weekly
Impact of Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle? what was he originally trying to expose
it created the pure food and drug act and the meat inspection act. he was trying to expose workplaces/
what were the working conditons like in the sweatshops?
unsanitary,hazardous,long hours and low pay
who made up most of the workforce and why these groups.
women,children and immigrants, they would work more for less money.
what is the difference between unskilled and skilled workers?
how trained they were
what impact did the triangle shirt waist fire have on changes in the workplace?
it led to workplace reform
why did labor unions form?
to influence work place changes
what was the first labor union and who did it represent?
Knights of Labor and represented unskilled workers
who formed the american federation of labor? what population did it represent?
Samuel Gompers and it represented trade workers
what does collective bargaining mean?
when one person or a small group bargains with management
why were labor unions seen as negative?
the one for all mentality
what led to the explosion of people in the cities
immigration and fire urbanization
what is the tenement act of 1901?
outlawed construction of tenements
which muckraker brought about reforming city life, what was the purpose of “how the other half lives”
Jacob Riis, to document living conditions.
why were progressive women at the fore front of the prohibition movement?
they believed alcohol was the root of violence and poverty
which two organizations lobbied for a prohibition movement?
The Anti Saloon League and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union
what is the 18th amendment?
outlawed production and sale of alcohol
