Progressive Era Reformers Flashcards
Abolitionist
Founded the National
Woman Suffrage Assoc.
Seneca Falls Convention
Passage of the 19th Amendment
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
African American teacher
and journalist
Anti-lynching campaign
Wrote the book Southern Horrors about
lynching
Speaking tours in the North
Ida B. Wells
Muckraker
Publisher/Writer
Wrote article for McClure’s Magazine,
Shame of the Cities which exposed
corrupt politicians and voter fraud and
how it affected all aspects of city life.
Lincoln Steffens
Muckraker/Photographer
Wrote How the Other Half Lives which
showed how the lower classes lived via
photographs of tenement housing in
NYC
Jacob Riis
Socialist Muckraker
Writer
Wrote the book “The Jungle” about the
despair of the immigrants working in the
stockyards and the unsanitary conditions
of the meat packing plants.
Leads to the Meat Inspection Act of 1906
and the Pure Food and Drug Act
Upton Sinclair
Believed in Social Gospel
Known for Hull House, the most
successful of the settlement houses
which helped the poor
Jane Addams
Inspired by settlement
houses
Chief inspector of factories in Illinois
Helped win passage of the Illinois
Factory Act of 1893 which prohibited
child labor and limited women’s working
hours
Florence Kelley
Muckraker/Publisher/Writer
Father worked for Standard
Oil
Wrote book called “A History of the
Standard Oil Company”
Criticized Standard Oil for its
monopolistic practices and of destroying
its competition.
Ida Tarbell
Naturalist/writer
Convinced T.R. to set aside
148 million acres of forest
reserves
Created the Sierra Club
John Muir
Believed alcohol was
undermining American
morals.
Transformed the Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union
into a national organization
Largest women’s group in
the nation’s history
“Do Anything” slogan
WCTU led to other reforms like suffrage
Influenced the passage of the 18th and
19th Amendments
Francis Willard
Born enslaved
Prominent African American
Educator
Believed education and job
training/labor skills was the
path to black self-reliance
and would prove economic
value to society – gradually
Headed the Tuskegee Institute in
Alabama, which equipped African
Americans with teaching diplomas and
skills in agriculture and/or mechanical
work.
Booker T. Washington
First African American to
receive a doctorate from
Harvard
Disagreed with Washington’s
approach immediate full social and economic equality for
African Americans
Founded the NAACP which continues to
fight for racial equality today
W.E.B. Du Bois
Leader of the women’s
suffrage movement
Founded the National
American Woman Suffrage
Association
Voted illegally in the 1872
election
Passage of the 19th Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
Head of U.S. Forest Service
Advised T.R. to conserve
forests and grazing lands
Helped set government policy of planned
management of natural resources for future use
Gifford Pinchot
Leader of the Progressive
Movement
Governor of Wisconsin
Senator 1906-1925
Wisconsin Idea – used
professors as experts to draft
legislation
Supported legislation reform like
initiative, referendum and recall
Supported the 17th Amendment
Robert M. LaFollette
