Progressive Era

period from 1890 to 1920, it was called this because people were trying to bring about progress in society.

• The Jungle

• Progressive Era

• socialism

• Urban Reforms

Novel by Upton Sinclair describing the meat packing industry was infamous for work related deaths and for preparing and shipping poorly handled products

• The Jungle

• Clayton Anti-trust Act

• referendum

Reformer who wrote the novel Progress and Poverty in a effort to explain why poverty continued to plague such an advanced civilization

• muckrakers

• Jane Adams

• Henry George

• Florence Kelly

Term used by President Roosevelt to describe journalists and others who were considered whistle blowers or tattle tales by altering the public to wrongdoing within the government or the workplaces

• muckrakers

• socialists

• unions

• FED

organization of workers formed to advance its members interests in respect to wages and working conditions

• muckrakers

• socialists

• unions

• FED

court document that is issued to usually halt or prohibit certain activities. these were issued by the courts, under the influence of wealthy business owners to stop unions from forming

• injunction

• socialism

• muckrakers

• direct primaries

economic or political philosophy favoring government or public control of property and income

• social welfare programs

• unions

• referendum

• socialism

political party formed in 1902 and by 1912 had won more than 1,000 municipalities

• social welfare programs

• socials parties of America

• conservationalists

social worker who explained that women had a special interest in the reform of America

• Florence Kelly

• Jane Adams

• Mother Jones

• Edward Bellany

she was asked to investigate local labor conditions for the federal government and largely to her efforts, illinois passed laws prohibiting child labor, working hours for women, and regulating sweatshop conditions

• Jane Adams

• Mother Jones

• Edward Bellany

• Florence Kelly