Unit 3: The Progressive Era

Reporters, journalists, photographers, and authors who used the media to raise concerns about the negative effects of industrialization were known as

• muckrakers
• suffragists
• immigrants
• abolitionists

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This event was one major factor leading to the need for building codes and government regulation of businesses

• Haymarket Riot
• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
• founding of the Tuskegee Institute
• attempted assassination of President Garfield

Corrupt organizations that controlled local governments came to be known as

• political machines

• Congress

• Trust Busters

• muckrakers

The Supreme Court case that limited working hours for women, but also identified them as the "weaker" sex was

• Plessey v. Ferguson

• the Northern Securities Case

• Muller v. Oregon

• Worcester v. Georgia

This organization was created to help protect the rights of Jewish Americans

• Urban League

• UNIA

• NAWSA

• Anti-Defamation League

The founder of the NAACP who encouraged African Americans to fight to end segregation

• Booker T. Washington
• George Washington Carver
• WEB Dubois
• Upton Sinclair

This organization was created to monitor businesses to prevent monopolistic practices

• NAACP

• Federal Reserve

• Federal Trade Commission

• Referendum

This was created to allow women to vote nationally

• 17th Amendment
• 18th Amendment
• 19th Amendment
• 21st Amendment

Law that requires company to properly label food and medicines

• Medicine Man
• Food Amendment
• Label Lemons
• Pure Food and Drug Act

Key Reforms of the Progressive Era
·  Initiative
·  Referendum
·  Recall
·  Direct Primary
·  17^th Amendment

 How did the reforms listed above impact America?

• A system of separate schools for new immigrants
• They gave citizens a greater voice in the democratic process of government
• More sources of revenue and taxes in state governments.
• They successfully brought economic relief to the urban working class