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
Germany declares all waters around England are a war zone and begins bombing
1915
Woodrow Wilson wanting to continue trade and remain friends with everyone asks for
Freedom of the seas
When does ww1 begin
August 1914
Who were the central powers
Germany, Austria-hungry, the Ottoman Empire
Who were the allied powers
France, Britain, Russia, Japan
Who was on central powers side and switched to allied
Italy
Assassination of who sparked ww1
Arch duke franz Ferdinand
Of Austria-Hungarian empire
4 causes of ww1
Nationalism
Militarism
Imperialism
Tangled alliances
Who wins election of 1912
Woodrow Wilson
Who RUNs for what party’s in 1912
William Howard Taft- republican
TR- progressive/ bull moose party
Woodrow- democrat
Eugene debs- socialist
1908 who steps down and who becomes president
TR steps down because of gentleman’s agreement. And William Howard Taft becomes prez
TR’s most personal and passionate cause
Conservation
The bully pulpit
When a politician uses the power of their office to bring about change without passing a law to do it
First American president to win Nobel prize
TR
Why did TR win Nobel peace prize
Ending war between Russia and Japan
William Haywood helps to form radical labor union____
iWW
The industrial workers of the world
Iww is also know as
Wobblies/ industrial workers of the world
Margret Sanger
From upstate ny started planned parenthood
Social Darwinist as well as activist
1906 two laws after the uproar of the jungle
Meat inspection act
Pure food and drug act
Hepburn act
Government regulations on railroads
Mother jones
Labor organizer and radical
John Dewey
Leader of change- education reform
Web deboise
NAACP
Who wrote how the other half lives and finally became recognized with the use of flash powder and photos
Jacob Riis
16th and 17th amendment
16th- income tax
17th- direct election of senators
