Progressive Era Flashcards
What were four goals of the Progressives?
They wanted safer working conditions, improvements in slums, to regulate big business, and they wanted to end business abuse.
How did the muckrakers affect the progressive reform movement?
They use the press to turn public against corruption and public support demanded change.
Who were the four muckrakers?
Jacob Riis, Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Steffens.
What did Jacob Riis do?
He took pictures of slum life and wrote, “How The Other Half Lives.”
What did Ida Tarbell do?
She wrote a book about standard oil and their unfair practices of big business.
What did Upton Sinclair do?
They wrote “The Jungle” about the meatpacking industry.
What did Steffens do?
Wrote, “The Shame of the Cities.”
Thomas Nast’s public cartoons were famous for exposing the corruption of what political boss?
Boss Tweed.
Uptown Sinclair’s novel, “The Jungle” persuaded President Teddy Roosevelt to pass what law?
The pure food and drug act and the meat inspection act.
What did President Teddy Roosevelt want to break up? Some of these were bad for the public.
Trusts.
In 1920, the long struggle for this was achieved when the 19th amendment was ratified.
Woman’s right to vote. (Suffrage)
Booker T. Washington expected that blacks would eventually gain their civil rights by doing what?
Learning trades and earning money so they would have power to demand equality.
Who was the progressive African American leader who refused to accept discrimination and urged blacks to fight discrimination?
W.E.B. Du Bois.
What organization worked to ban the sale of alcohol in United States?
The women’s Christian temperance union. (WCTM)
