APUSH - Progressives

Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal

domestic program formed upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection

Hull House-Jane Addams

settlement house founded in chicago 1889 by jane addams to provide social and educational opportunities for immigrant workers in surrounding neighborhoods.

New Immigrants

immigrants who had come to the US after the 1880s from southern and eastern europe

Yellow Journalism

Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers

Muckrakers

Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Exposed the horrible, unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry. Example of muckraking.

Tuskegee Institute

Booker T. Washington built this school to educate black students on learning how to support themselves and prosper

Booker T. Washington

Prominent black American, born into slavery, who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society.

W.E.B. DuBois

Wanted social and political integration as well as higher education - the "Talented Tenth". Founder of the Niagara Movement which led to the creation of the NAACP.

Lewis Hine

muckraker who took pictures of child laborers to expose how bad child labor was

Jacob Riis

A Danish immigrant, he became a reporter who pointed out the terrible conditions of the tenement houses of the big cities where immigrants lived during the late 1800s. He wrote How The Other Half Lives in 1890.

Meat Inspection Act

1906 - Laid down binding rules for sanitary meat packing and government inspection of meat products crossing state lines.

Pure Food and Drug Act

1906 - Forbade the manufacture or sale of mislabeled or adulterated food or drugs, it gave the government broad powers to ensure the safety and efficacy of drugs in order to abolish the "patent" drug trade. Still in existence as the FDA.

Antiquities Act

passed in 1906, which allows the president to protect areas of scientific or historical interest on federal lands as national monuments (park) - TR

16th Amendment

income tax

17th Amendment

Direct election of senators

18th Amendment

Prohibition

19th Amendment

Women's suffrage

Social Gospel

A movement in the late 1800s / early 1900s which emphasized charity and social responsibility as a means of salvation.

Ida Wells-Barnett

an early leader in the civil rights movement. She documented the extent of lynching in the United States, and was also active in the women's rights movement and the women's suffrage movement.

Pendelton Act

reform measure that established the principle of federal employment on the basis of open, competitive exams and created the Civil Service Commission

Patronage

Granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support

Thomas Nast

A famous caricaturist and editorial cartoonist in the 19th century and is considered to be the father of American political cartooning. His artwork was primarily based on political corruption. He helped people realize the corruption of some politicians

Plessy v. Ferguson

a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal

Boss Tweed

Leader of the Democratic Tammany Hall, New York political machine