The Progressive Era Flashcards
Uprising of the 20000
Strike by women in 1909 demanding more wages and conditions.
Triangle fire (1911)
Factory fire killed women due to locked doors. Sparked new labor laws
İsadora Duncan
Dancer who challenged gender roles and sexual norms. Symbolized artistic rebellion and woman’s freedom.
Anthony comstock
His 1873 law banned birth control and sexual education materials “obscene”
Margaret Sanger
Birth control advocater. Opened clinics, published controversial material, and fought for women’s right to control their bodies
Jane Addams
Reformer, created hull houses in Chicago to help immigrants and working class families. Advocated for peace, women’s right, and social justice
Hull house
A community center for immigrants and the poor. Offered education, childcare, and healthcare.
Alice paul
Radical suffragists. He join protestors he was arrested and he went hunger strike. He forced to eat. He did all of them for 19th amendment equal rights.
19th amendment
Gave women the rights to vote in 1920.
Square deal
Theodore Roosevelt’s to smash big monopolies and regulating the economy. They were not in the deporesion
What was the progressive are? Who was involved and what did they want?
Activist and middle class workers wanna fix the problems caused by industrialization. Corruption, poverty, dangerous work and inequality. They used politic to reform the USA.
How did women drive the progressive movement
Women led labor strikes, birth control movements, and suffrage campaign. They turned personal experience into public fights for justice.
What was the suffrage movement and how did it succed?
The protestors and the strikes succeed in 1920 19th amendment.
