US History: Progressive Era (Vocabulary)

What is a Muckraker?

• 1890 law that broke up the massive monopolies that dominated key industries.

• Nickname for Teddy Roosevelt’s agenda as president which included trust- busting and giving all Americans a “square” or fair deal.

• Investigative reporter who sought to make public the ills of society during the Gilded Age.

What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?

• 1890 law that broke up the massive monopolies that dominated key industries.

• Nickname for Teddy Roosevelt’s agenda as president which included trust- busting and giving all Americans a “square” or fair deal.

• Investigative reporter who sought to make public the ills of society during the Gilded Age.

What is the Square Deal?

• 1890 law that broke up the massive monopolies that dominated key industries.

• Nickname for Teddy Roosevelt’s agenda as president which included trust- busting and giving all Americans a “square” or fair deal.

• Investigative reporter who sought to make public the ills of society during the Gilded Age.

What is Social Darwinism?

• Theories that use biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics.

• The right to vote- what women were looking for during the Progressive Era.

• 1890 law that broke up the massive monopolies that dominated key industries.

What is the Haymarket Riot?

• The right to vote- what women were looking for during the Progressive Era.

• 1886 Bombing in Chicago during a demonstration made for an 8-hour workday.

• 1890 law that broke up the massive monopolies that dominated key industries.

What was Homestead Strike?

• Massive lockout and strike in 1892 against the Carnegie Steel Company in Pennsylvania.

• 1886 Bombing in Chicago during a demonstration made for an 8-hour workday.

• 1890 law that broke up the massive monopolies that dominated key industries.

What is the Suffrage?

• The right to vote- what women were looking for during the Progressive Era.

• 1886 Bombing in Chicago during a demonstration made for an 8-hour workday.

• 1890 law that broke up the massive monopolies that dominated key industries.