Name ______Progressive Era Vocabulary

Vocab.Term Definition Picture The main objectives of the Progressive movement were addressing problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and Progressive political corruption. Era

Investigative reporters who exposed corruption.They wrote newspaper Muckrakers and magazine stories that told people about problems. Called muckrakers, these reporters "raked"—or exposed—the "muck"—dirt and corruption— in business.

Established sanitary standards for slaughterhouses and meat processing Meat plants Inspection Act Authorized the U.S. Department of Agriculture to conduct the ongoing 1906 monitoring and inspection of slaughter and processing operations

To protect the public from contaminated, unsafe food Pure Food and To protect the public from deceptive, mis-labeled and amplified claims of Drug Act the benefits, cures and effectiveness of a drug or medicine made, (FDA) marketed and branded by a manufacturer that is available without 1906 prescription

Trustbuster A person who supported regulation of business and other progressive reforms. They seek to break up trusts and monopolies legally through the court system.

Some Americans wanted to ban alcohol because they thought drinking Temperance was immoral. Other reformers cited the social impact of alcohol abuse— Movement crime, the breakup of families, and poverty. They supported Prohibition—

In 1913 Congress passed this amendment that allows the Federal 16th Government to collect an income tax on all Americans. Income tax allows amendment for the federal government to keep an army, build roads and bridges, enforce laws and carry out other important duties.

Name ______Progressive Era Vocabulary

17th In 1913 Congress passed this amendment to the Constitution. This amendment amendment required direct election of senators by the people.

Congress in 1917 passed a constitutional amendment declaring it illegal to 18th make, transport, or sell alcohol in the United States. (Commonly known amendment as the Prohibition Law)

The states later reversed this amendment with the 1933 ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment.

19th In 1920 Congress passed a woman suffrage amendment. amendment (Suffrage is the right to vote)

The protection and preservation of natural resources(forests, water, oil, Conservation coal, gas, iron) of natural resources

Sherman Anti- Congress passed this law that outlawed trusts — monopolies and cartels trust Law 1890 — to increase economic competitiveness

Jane Addams was a pioneer in the new field of social work and was best Jane Addams known for her Hull House, a settlement house set in Chicago to help the urban poor.

Settlement houses were places in large cities where people get assistance with social problems and challenges related to urban living (i.e childcare, adult education, health services)

“Mother” Mary Harris “Mother” Jones worked as a labor activist. Mother Jones Jones became an active campaigner for the United Mine Workers Union and worked tirelessly to end child labor.

Elizabeth Cady Elizabeth Cady Stanton called for suffrage at a women’s rights convention Stanton & in 1848. She and Susan B. Anthony worked together for years for Susan B suffrage. Stanton helped found the National Woman Suffrage Association Anthony in 1869.