Progressivism

The time period where the government finally sought to improve society and the government and the problems brought on by rapid industrialization and urbanization through many different reforms (changes).

• Reformism

• Westward Expansion

• Enlightenment

• Progressivism

Social reformer who helped coordinate major strikes and co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World. Fought for better conditions for miners and child labor.

• Florence Kelly

• Mother Jones

• Ida Tarbell

• Ida B. Wells

Social reformer who fought for women and children in the factories. Minimum wage and the 8-hour workday was her big goal.

• Ida Tarbell

• Mother Jones

• Florence Kelly

• Mary Church Terrell

Helped start the Temperance Movement which thought the cause of poverty for immigrant and working-class families was the excessive drinking of alcohol. Known for starting the HULL HOUSE.

• Jane Addams

• Mother Jones

• Florence Kelly

• Ida Tarbell

Its main purpose was to provide social and educational opportunities for working-class people (many of them recent European immigrants). Things provided at Hull-House: English lessons, hot meals, childhood education, recreational activities, beds for sleep.

• The Tenement House

• The Immigration Reform House

• The Settlement House

• Homeless Shelter Movement

Writer or journalist who investigated social conditions and political corruption. They inspired Americans to call for reforms.

• espionage journalist

• muckraker

• reformer

• detective

Muckraker who exposed Rockefeller and his Standard Oil Company in McClure’s Magazine. The Supreme Court found Standard Oil in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and ordered it broken into 34 separate companies.

• Jacob Riis

• Upton Sinclair

• Lincoln Steffens

• Ida Tarbell

Muckraker who exposed the disgusting conditions in the meatpacking industry in his book “The Jungle.”

• Ida Tarbell

• Lincoln Steffens

• Upton Sinclair

• Jacob Riis

Passed in in 1906, it required federal inspection of meat and set standards of cleanliness in meatpacking plants.

• The Meat Act

• The Meat Inspection Act

• The Inspection Act

• The Pure Food Act

Passed in 1906, it prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of impure or falsely labeled food and drugs.

• The Pure Food Act

• The Pure Food and Drug Act

• The Food and Drug Act

• The Drug and Pure Food Act