Progressive Era Flashcards/Study Guide
A muckraker is?
A journalist who exposed living conditions in the tenements and factories
Founder of “Hull House”
Jane Addams
Who wrote “The Jungle”?
Upton Sinclair
Many labor unions bargained with managers for
More pay and safer conditions
Why would a mining company hire young children to work for them
Children were small enough to fit in mines
What does reform mean?
A change for the better
What is a labor union?
A organized group of workers who unite to improve working conditions
What were working conditions like for miners?
Worked 10-12 hours a day
Which adjectives best describe working conditions in the early 1900’s?
Cramped, dangerous
Muckraker Upton Sinclair wrote a book called The Jungle that…
exposed the unclean/unsanitary processes of the meat-packing industry.
