Progressive Era

coined silver to increase money in circulation, graduated income tax, regulated railroad shipping charges

• Populist Party Platform

• Republican Party Platform

• Democrat Party Platform

• Independent Party Platform

wrote The Jungle; resulted in government regulation of food products

• Upton Sinclair
• Ernest Hemingway
• George Orwell
• Mark Twain

started the settlement house movement in the U.S. to help assimilate immigrants

• Susan B. Anthony
• Harriet Tubman
• Amelia Earhart
• Jane Addams

founded NAACP, a civil rights group that fought for the legal rights of African Americans

• Malcolm X
• Rosa Parks
• Frederick Douglass
• W.E.B. Du Bois

initiative, referendum, recall; increased participation in democracy; made elected officials accountable

• Great Depression reforms
• State reforms

• Civil Rights Movement reforms
• Industrial Revolution reforms

(FDA) government policies protecting consumers; resulted from Muckrakers, like Upton Sinclair

• Fresh Food Guidelines Act

• Unsanitary Protocols Act

• Rancid Food Act

• Pure Food and Drug Act

created by Roosevelt to conserve land

• expansion of private land ownership
• development of urban areas
• creation of state parks
• national parks service

allowed women’s suffrage, right to vote

• 19th Amendment
• 21st Amendment
• 20th Amendment
• 18th Amendment

women supported; 18th amendment; prohibited sell and consumption of alcohol; hoped to decrease crime and health problems; resulted in more crime and speakeasies

• Temperance
• Volstead Act
• Alcohol Prohibition
• Prohibition