EOC Flashcard Quiz - Progressive Era

To correct political and economic injustices.

• Goals of the Gilded Age

• Goals of the Progressive Era

• Goals of imperialism

• Goals of WW1

-Leader in settlement house movement

-Hull House

• Ida B. Wells

• Jane Addams

• Jacob Riis

• Upton Sinclair

African-American leader who helped found the NAACP

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Ida B. Wells

• Jane Addams

• Jacob Riis

African American who worked to end lynching

• Ida B. Wells

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Booker T. Washington

• Teddy Roosevelt

Reporters/journalists that exposed the abuses of industrial co. and political corruption

-Author of "How the Other Half Lives"

-Showed poverty in urban areas

• Upton Sinclair

• Theodore Roosevelt

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Jacob Riis

Author of the Jungle

-US President 1901-1909

-Trust-buster - No monopolies

-Square Deal -"every sector of US would be treated fairly"

-Passed laws to protect consumers

-Preserved natural resources

-US President 1913-1921

-"New Freedom" - go after big businesses (monopolists)

Gave women the right to vote