Progressives Flashcards
A “muckraker” is
A journalist who exposed living conditions in tenements and factories
Founder of “Hull House”
Jane Addams
Who wrote “The Jungle”?
Upton Sinclair
Political Machines promised jobs and housing in return for votes
True
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 the mine
What does reform mean?
A change for the better
What is a labor union?
an organized group of workers who unite to improve working conditions
What were the 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.
The lives of children under age 14 were improved during the Progressive Era because…
they were not allowed to work at all and were required to attend school.
Tenements were…
run-down apartment building in big cities.
Nickname for journalists because they “raked up” and exposed filth of society
muckrakers
Corrupt organizations that used illegal methods to get their candidates elected to office
Political Machines
