The Gilded Age. (Chapter 3)

Literally every FDA violation ever.

Jacob Riis

became famous for exposing the terrible conditions in New York City apartments. He brought about change for the lower class citizens of the U.S

Settlement Houses

These houses offered education, recreation, and social activities

Jane Addams

Created Hull Houses, a major muckraker

Hull House 

A settlement house that mostly took care of single mothers looking for help. It was the most famous settlement house of the period.

Florence Kelley

Recorded conditions in factories ad helped Illinois pass a law that limited working hours for women and prevented child labor. A muckraker 

Progressives

These people worked to improve society in the late 1800s. They tried to solve problems caused by massive urban growth. They wanted to eliminate crime, disease, and poverty.

Muckrakers

They would expose the muck and filth of society. They wrote about troubling issues in an attempt to get people to unite. Journalists, photographers, etc. 

17th Amendment

Senators were elected directly by voters 

Recall

To remove

Initiative

Voters could propose a new law by collecting enough signatures in a petition

Referendum

Voters could approve or reject a law proposed by the government.

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire 

A fire accident that led to the passing of laws that improved factory safety standards. It was a true tragedy, it was preventable. 

Workers Compensation Laws

This guaranteed a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job as compensation

Capitalism

An economic system in which private businesses run most industries and competition determines the price of goods

Socialism

A system in which the government owns and operates a country’s means of production

18th Amendment

The manufacturing, sale, and transport of alcohol was prohibited. Basically the start of the prohibition

Horizontal Integration

Someone who controls all the businesses in your industry. Like a monopoly. Famous for Rockefeller. 

Theodore Roosevelt

A president of the U.S that caused some progressive changes. He added laws that fixed the manufacturing of meat, added national parks, and stopped big business monopoly 

Pure Food and Drug Act

The First FDA, it made sure you couldn’t lie in food labels, and it protected consumers by giving information on the ingredients and creation of the food.  

Conservation 

The protection of nature and its resources 

William Howard Taft

Roosevelt’s successor. Disagreed with him and caused the split of the republican party. Got stuck in a bathtub. 

Progressive Party

A party for progress. Was created by Rosevelt because he was upset at the job Taft was doing as president. So he created this party and caused a fight between republicans.

Woodrow Wilson

A progressive president

16th Amendment

Federal Income tax

19th Amendment

Gave women the right to vote

Booker T. Washington

He believed that if African Americans improved their education+economic wellbeing, it would end discrimination

Ida B. Wells

She wrote about the unequal treatment of African Americans. She also drew attention to the lynchings (being jumped.)

W. E. B. Du Bois 

he attacked discrimination by publishing cases of racial prejudice. He believed African Americans should protests against their unequal treatment

NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

It was an organization about calling for better quality education+economy for African Americans.

National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA)

An organization that promoted the cause of women’s suffrage

Alice Paul

The founders of the National Women’s Party

Vertical Integration

When you own something in each step of a business plan. Most famous for Carnegie