Progressive Era

Key Reforms of the Progressive Era
·  Initiative
·  Referendum
·  Recall
·  Direct Primary
·  17^th Amendment

 How did the reforms listed above impact America?

• A system of separate schools for new immigrants
• They gave citizens a greater voice in the democratic process of government
• More sources of revenue and taxes in state governments.
• They successfully brought economic relief to the urban working class

Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society

• Suffragists
• Muckrakers
• Students
• Chaffinators

Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?

• Ida Tarbell
• Lewis Hines 
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair

Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?

• Jacob Riis
• Lewis Hines
• Ida Tarbell
• Upton Sinclair

Movement that believed honest and efficient government could bring about social justice

• Social Gospel

• Progressivism

• Referendum

• Suffrage

Author of Shame of the Cities- this book exposed corruption in urban government

• Lincoln Steffens

• Jane Adams

• Florence Kelley

• Jacob Riis

Muckracking photographer and author of How the Other Half lives- exposed the conditions of the urban cities

• Jacob Riis

• Lincoln Steffens

• Florence Kelley

• Jane Adams

Belief that following Christian principles could bring about social change

• Social Gospel

• Direct Primary

• Mr. Scott's Sermon on Sunday

• Referendum

Community center that provided services for the urban poor

• Settlement House

• Initiative

• Referendum

• National Consumers League

Gave citizens the power to propose new laws

• Initiative

• Direct Primary

• Referendum

• Recall