Progressive Era

Laissez-faire

Government with little say

Capitalism

Economic System free market

Monopoly

To control most or all of a economy

Trust

Group of board members 

Socialism

Bureaucracy

Government desicions are made by state officials

Muckraker

A journalist who investigates corruption

Political Machine

To use other people for favors like voting for someone

Tammany Hall

Political machine in Ny ran by Boss Tweed

Standard Oil

Huge company that had to break up because it dominated into the economy.

Women’s Suffrage

A political movement made for women to vote

Temperance Movement

Movement to get ride of alcohol

18th Amendment

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol but was ratified in 1919 only law to ever be ratified 

Reform

To make changes in a political practice to improve it.

Uprising of 20,000

A strike by shirtwaist workers to recieve better conditions and better pay.

Triangle Factory Fire

146 deaths known as the most brutal fire behind the 9/11 attacks

Thomas Nast

A muckraker who created political cartoons about the corruption of Boss Tweed and tammany hall

Lincoln Steffens

A muckraker who wrote about the corruption of Boss Tweed and wrote a book called “The Shame of Cities”

Jacob Riis

A muckraker who took photos about the poor conditions of tenements and the lack of safe water

Ida Tarbell

A muckraker who is most famous for her book The History of the Standard Oil Company which later led to the breakup of Standard Oil

Lewis Hine

A muckraker who was most known for documenting child labor

John D. Rockefeller

Owner of standard oil

Adam Smith

Wrote the Wealth of nations and created the invisible hand which means what you do for yourself will also impact others.

Upton Sinclair

He wrote the novel the Jungle which was about the terrible sanitary conditions of meat packing industries and how he worked in one.

Theodore Roosevelt

President during the progressive era and wanted to get re-elected to restructure

Boss Tweed

Main guy who ran Tammany Hall a political powerhouse 

19th Amendment

Women’s voting rights

Sherman Antitrust Act

To get rid of monopolies and trusts to make the market a place for competition

Clayton Antitrust Act

To strengthen the Sherman Antitrust act of getting rid of un practical bussisnes ideas.

Federal Trade Commission

Prevented unfair business practices

Pure Food and Drug Act

Prohibited mislabeling food and medicine products

Meat Inspection Act

Must have sanitary conditions in meat packing industries

Robber Baron

Someone who runs monopolies or unfair business practices