Progressive Era Flashcards
Gave women full voting rights and was passed in 1920.
19th amendment
Was founded in 1909 and played a major role in ending segregation in the United States.
NAACP
A leader in the effort to achieve equality by founding the Tuskegee Institute to provide African Americans with education and training.
Booker T. Washington
African American leader who founded the NAACP and encouraged black Americans to reject segregation.
W.E.B. Du Bois
In 1916 she founded the National Women’s Party and led a march of over 5,000 suffragettes in Washington D.C. in support of women’s voting rights.
Alice Paul
Reformers who worked to improve society by taking on social issues like ending child labor, making safer workplaces, and helping immigrant families.
Progressives
Progressive President that broke up corporate trusts, helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act, and created National Parks.
Theodore Roosevelt
Author who wrote The Jungle, exposing the unsanitary and unsafe conditions immigrants faced in the meatpacking industry.
Upton Sinclair
A new group of authors and journalists created public demand for reform by writing articles and books to expose corruption in society.
muckrakers
Conservationists who wanted more National Parks to protect natural resources and preserve wilderness areas like Yosemite from being destroyed.
John Muir
This resulted from the 18th amendment
Prohibition
Muckraker who took pictures of child labor and write, The Bitter Cry of Children exposing working conditions in the mines.
John Spargo
Progressive reformer that exposed Rockefeller’s unfair business practices in, The History of Standard Oil
Ida Tarbell
Exposed the horrors of lynchings in the South.
Ida B. Wells
Drew cartoons that exposed the political corruption of Boss Tweed and helped to arrest him.
Thomas Nast
