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
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repealed prohibition (alcohol no longer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?
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.)