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What was the goal of the Progressive era?

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What was the goal of the Progressive era?

To fix the problems caused by

industrialization

(to make things better in America)

What were some things that needed to be fixed (reformed) in America?

child laborlong working hourslow wagesdiscriminationpoor living conditionsunsafe working conditions in factoriesunclean food conditions

What is a reform?

A change

What is suffrage?

The right to vote

How did women win the right to vote?

Marchesspeeches

hunger strikes

What famous women worked for the Suffrage

Movement?

Susan B. AnthonyElizabeth Cady Stanton

What did the 19th amendment do?

Gave women the right to vote

What was the goal of the Temperance

Movement?

To make alcohol illegal

Why did many women believe Temperance

was important?

Drinking caused too many problems

Who was Cary Nation?

Woman who used an ax to destroy bars

What was prohibition?

When it was illegal to make and sell alcohol

What was the 18th amendment?

Made selling and making alcohol illegal

Why didn’t prohibition work?

Too difficult to control

What did the 21st amendment do?

repealed prohibition (alcohol no longer

illegal)

What was a muckraker?

a person who shows or tells others about the bad things that are

happening in the cities

What types of jobs may a muckraker have?

photographercartoonist

authorjournalist

Who wrote the book, The Jungle?

Upton Sinclair

What problem of industrialization does The Jungle tell people

about?

unclean and unsafe conditions in the

meatpacking industry (in the meat factories)

What were the outcomes of The

Jungle?

(When people read The Jungle, what happened?

The Pure Food & Drug Act and the

Meat Inspection Actwere passed and made meat, other foods and medicines more safe

What problem did Jacob Riis’s book, How

the Other Half Lives, tell readers?

told people about the terrible living conditions

of the tenements

Who was Boss Tweed?

A political boss who stole $10 million of NYC’s tax money

What happened to Boss Tweed?

Thomas Nast drew a cartoon of Boss Tweed

getting fat off of tax payers’ money…police arrested Boss Tweed

What was the 17th amendment?

Direct election of senators

(you couldn’t just be given the job because you had a lot of money or you were friends with

someone)

What was the Civil Service Commission?

made it so you had to pass a test to get hired

for a federal job (postman, etc.)