Social Studies Progressive Era Flashcards
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
An american woman’s right activist, mainly supported the woman’s right to vote.
Upton Sinclair
A famous muckraker that wrote the Jungle. The Jungle was written on the dangers of the meatpacking industry.
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells was an american journalist, educator, civil rights leader and one of the founders of the NAACP.
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington was an African American educator that founded the Tuskegee Institute for Colored People.
Theodore Roosevelt
26th president of the United States passed food acts, conservation acts, child labor laws, and built the panama canal.
Panama Canal
The panama canal was built to connect the pacific and Atlantic oceans it boosted the U.S economy and the U.S Naval power. The panama canal was started as a project by the French.
Immigration Challenges
Language barrier, poor working conditions, poor living condition, the journey to america was awful, low wages ect.
Child Labor Laws
Protected Children from working many hours with little pay, working in poor conditions under bad management.
Woman’s suffrage
Woman’s suffrage is the want for a woman right to vote. Women got the right to vote in every state in 1920.
Food Industry Improvements
Upton Sinclair Jungle, Pure food and Drug act called for sanitary conditions and inspections and inspection of meat and animals.
Environmental Improvements
Theodore Roosevelt made many conversations and national parks to decrease the pollution and mass extinction of many animals and plants.
Living Conditions
The living conditions were squished, unsanitary and crawling with rats. Reform called for buildings to have outward facing windows proper ventilation and fire safeguards.
Plessy v. Ferguson and other African American Rights
Plessy v. Ferguson allowed segregation with the doctrine separate but equal
Reform
to make changes in order to improve something
Muckraker
reform-minded journalists
