Progressive Reformers

The period between 1900 and the start of World War I is known as the

• Gilded Age

• Roaring 20s

• Progressive Era

• Imperialism

A major purpose of the Progressive movement (1900-1917) was to....

• stimulate the economy

• support government control of factory production

• encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe

• correct the economic and social abuses of industrial society

Reforming means

• Changing something for the better

• Controlling something

• Buying something

• Approving Something

Writers who reported on terrible, real-life stories of suffering to draw attention to the problems they saw and to bring change.

• Dirtslinger

• Muckraker

• Mudbaker

Problems immigrants faced:

• Poor working conditions

• Poor living conditions

• Prejudice

• All of the above

What were working conditions like in the early factories?

• High pay

• low wages

• long hours

• child labor

Which "muckraker" (progressive writer) exposed unsanitary and dangerous working conditions of meat packing plants with the book "The Jungle?"

• Jacob Riis

• Ida Tarbell

• Thomas Nast

• Upton Sinclair

Which muckraker that exposed Standard Oil Company

• Ida Tarbell

• Jane Addams

• Upton Sinclair

• Jacob Riis

16th Amendment

• Women's Suffrage

• Direct Election of Senators

• Federal Income Tax

• Prohibition

What reforms were achieved due to labor unions?

• longer workdays

• benefits

• health insurance

• safety regulations