Progressive Era/ Roarding of 1920s Flashcards
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Muckrakers
Used investigative reporting to recover and dramatize society’s problems
Who was Ida Tarbell?
Led to the breakup of standard oil
Who was Jacob Riis?
Photography of inner city poor living conditions
Who was Lincoln Steffens?
Exposed corruption in urban government
Who was Upton Sinclair?
Wrote The Jungle about horrible conditions in meat packing factories in Chicago
Suffragettes
Campaign of woman’s right to vote
Who was Alice Paul?
Used marches, Picketing, and hunger strikes
18th amendment
Banned the sale and production of alcohol
Woman Christian temperance movement
Woman groups used to help force of the banning of alcohol
Red scare
Fear of communism being scared by immigrants
Palmer Raids
brought about to end the red scare by clearing numerous supposed radicals
Sacco and Vanzetti
Italian anarchists charged with committing murder
Xenophobia
Fear of foreigners or anyone involved in socialism anarchy or communism
Henry Ford
created assembly line for mass production using scientific management
Modernism
Emphasizing biblical belief as truth