Progressive Era Flashcards
Grade 8 · Social Studies · Flashcards
Key terms, people, and laws from the Progressive Era reform movement in the United States.
Flashcards
- Progressive Era (1890–1920)
- Period of social and political reform aimed at fixing problems caused by industrialization, corruption, and inequality.
- Muckraker
- Investigative journalist who exposed corruption and social injustice; named by TR after the rake that clears muck.
- Upton Sinclair
- Author of 'The Jungle' (1906); exposed meatpacking industry conditions leading to the Pure Food and Drug Act.
- Ida Tarbell
- Journalist who exposed Standard Oil's monopolistic practices in a landmark 1904 investigative series.
- Lincoln Steffens
- Journalist who documented political corruption in American cities in 'The Shame of the Cities' (1904).
- Theodore Roosevelt
- 26th President; championed antitrust enforcement, conservation, and consumer protection as key Progressive reforms.
- Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
- Federal law prohibiting monopolies and combinations that restrain trade; used extensively during the Progressive Era.
- 16th Amendment (1913)
- Authorized a federal income tax, giving the government a new funding source for expanded programs.
- 17th Amendment (1913)
- Established direct popular election of U.S. Senators, making the process more democratic.
- 19th Amendment (1920)
- Granted women the right to vote nationwide, the culmination of the women's suffrage movement.
- Jane Addams
- Social reformer who founded Hull House in Chicago (1889); won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
- Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
- Law banning unsafe food and medicine from interstate commerce; a direct result of muckraking journalism.
- Suffrage
- The right to vote; women's suffrage refers to the movement to give women voting rights.
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