Progressive Era

People who attempted to find corruption in industries and expose it to the people of the United States.

• Suffragists

• Muckrakers

• Reformers

• Politicians

To manage or control how something operates.

• Regulate

• Reform

• Legislate

• Corrupt

Movement that sought to challenge the legal, political, and economic disabilities of a specific gender.

• Progressive Movement

• Temperance Movement

• Women's Suffrage Movement

• 19th Amendment

Amendment that gave the Congress the power to tax a person's income.

• 16th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

Amendment that was passed in 1913, allowing voters to directly elect their senators instead of allowing their state legislatures to choose.

• 16th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

Amendment that prohibited the sale and production of alcohol.

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 21st Amendment

• 19th Amendment

Prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote based on gender.

• Women's Suffrage Movement

• 19th Amendment

• Temperance Movement

• Equal Rights

One of the earliest progressive reformers who led the settlement house movement, where baths, cheap food, childcare, job training, and healthcare were provided to poor citizens in the slums.

• Florence Kelley

• Ida B. Wells

• Jane Addams

• Ida Tarbell

Reformer who wrote journals about providing contraceptive information for poor and middle class women and opened the first birth control clinic in the United States in 1915.

• Margaret Sanger

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Lucretia Mott

• Susan B. Anthony

Court case that allowed Jim Crow laws to segregate in restaurants, hotels, and schools.

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Marbury v. Madison