Progressive Era Flashcards
Muck rakers
Write to expose problems in society with hopes that others will makes changes
Ida Tarbell
Expose bad business of John Rockefeller ( Thomas Nast of Rockefeller)
Lincoln Stephens
Writes the book ______
Writes about corruption in big city government
The shame of the cities
Lincoln Stephens was friends with whom that he gave a political edge by publicizing his good works
Theodore Roosevelt
David graham Philips
Wrote about corruption in Washington, D.C. / federal gov.
Treason in the senate(book)
Dates for progressive era
1890-1915
Ray standard baker
Wrote about
Labor issues and strikes
Wrote about sanitary conditions in slaughterhouses although his goal was really to prove what
Uptown Sinclair ( the jungle)
To prove we need socialism
Janne Addams
Mother of social work- while I’m England saw how poor people were being helped
Janne Addams opened a settlement house called ____ in Chicago and was the first American woman to____
Hall house
Win Nobel peace prize
Early 1917 3 things that pull US into WW1
1) Germany resumes u boat attacks
2) Russia is going to drop out of war
3) Zimmerman telegraph
Zimmerman telegraph
Message from Germany to Mexico that says help Germany fight the U.S. And after the war you will get back all the land America took from Mexico
When do we join ww1 officialy
April 1917
1916 presidential election year
3 reasons people liked and re-elected Woodrow Wilson
1) child labor laws
2) 8 hour work day
3) Wilson appoints a Jew to Supreme Court
Two major differences between the U.S. Maine and the Lusitania
Maine - military- don’t know cause with absolution
Lusitania- passenger ship- we know who did it
May 1915 is th date of
May 7 1915 Lusitania sunk 1200 people dead 10% American
