The progressive Era

History unit 3

Jacob Bills

Journalist and photographer

Became famous for exposing the horrible conditions in NY tenements.

Settlement Houses

Neighborhood centers in poor areas that offered education, recreation, and social activities.

Jane Addams

Opened a settlement house in Chicago, kindergarten, public playground.

Involved in housing safety and sanitation issues, factory inspection and immigrants’ rights.

1931, won the Nobel Peace Prize (Women international league, Peace and freedom)

Hull House

A pioneering American settlement house founded in Chicago in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. (The most famous settlement house of the period)

Florence Kelley

One important reformer at Hull House, Sweat shops, and wrote about the problems.

1893, passed a law to limit working hours of women and child labor.

Progressives

A group of reformers.

Working to improve society in the late 1800s.

Muckrakers

Journalists were nicknamed this

They racked up and exposed the muck of filth of society.

17th Amendment

Allowed for the direct popular election of U.S. senators. Senators are elected directly by votes.

Recall

Voters can remove an official from office.

Initiative

A procedure allowed voters to propose a new law by collecting signatures on a petition.

Referendum

Another measure, permitted voters to approve or reject a law that had already been passed by a government body.

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Led to 146 deaths, mostly young immigrant workers lack of safety measures.

Led to the passage of laws improving factory safety standards.

Workers Compensation Laws

Guaranteed a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job.

Capitalism

An economic system, private businesses run most industries and competition determines the price of goods.

Socialism

A system in which the gov.t owns and operates a country’s means of production.

Horizontal integration

When you own alll the competition in an industry

Vertical integration

Company earns with a business at a different stage of its supply chain to control more of the production. 

The idea of owning all the processes to make the industry success.

18th Amendment

Manufacture sale, and transport of alcohol prohibited.

NAWSA (National American Woman Suffrage Association)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded, this to promote the cause of women’s suffrage. (Women’s right to vote)

Booker T. Washington

The most important African American leader in the community and the contemporary Black elite.

19th Amendment

Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on sex, effectively granting women the right to vote. (Women’s suffrage)

Alice Paul

Founded what become the National Woman’s Party (NWP)

Joined the 19th Amendment campaign.

Ida B. Wells

Journalist, wrote articles about the unequal education available to African American.

NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of colored people)

An organization that called for economic and educational equality for African Americans.

Theodore Roosevelt

Popular former president who is running as a third-party candidate.

Pure Food and Drug Act

A law prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transport of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs. (Theodore Roosevelt)

Conservation

The protection of nature and it’s resources.

W.E.B Dubois

Took a direct approach to fight justice by studying and publicizing cases. (Africans Americans)

16th Amendment

Allows the federal gov.t to impose direct taxes on citizen’s incomes.

Progressive Party

Nicknamed the Bull Moose Party

Roosevelt said he was “as strong as a bull moose.”

Woodrow Wilson

Democratic candidate won the electral vote by a wide margin.

Ellis Island

New York Harbor. European immigrants went here to go to America.

Angel island

California. Chinese immigrants went here to enter America.