Progressive Era Vocab

A group of reformers who worked to solve problems caused by the rapid industrial urban growth of the late 1800s.

• Captains of Industry

• Exodusters

• Progressives

• Student Non-Violent Cordinating Committee

A group of investigative reporters who exposed the corruption and horrible conditions or urban areas

• Drama Queens

• Exodusters

• Robber Barons

• Muckrakers

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 1st Amendment

This 1906 work by Upton Sinclair pointed out the abuses of the meat packing industry. The book led to the passage of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act.

• How the Other Half Lives

• The Jungle

• The Shame of the Cities

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

(1911) 146 women killed while locked into the burning building (brought attention to poor working conditions)

• Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

• Homestread Strike

• Haymarket Riot

• Parkland Massacre

The drive for voting rights for women that took place in the United States from 1890 to 1920.

• Civil Rights Movement

• Suffrage Movement

• Temperance Movement

• Progressive Movement

the act that prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of impure of falsely labeled food and drugs

• Pendleton Act

• Pure Food and Drug Act

• Meat Inspection Act

• Homestead Act

The 19th Amendment

• Prohibition of Alcohol

• Direct Election of Senators

• Women's Suffrage

• Free Speech

This woman invigorated the Women's Right Movement by using radical tactics like getting arrested & hunger strikes

• Alice Paul

• Susan B. Anothony

• Elizabeth Cate Stanton

• Jennifer Forgy

Created by Teddy Roosevelt to increase conservation measures across the nation.

• National Park Service

• Homestead Act

• Pure Food and Drug Act

• The Selective Service Act