Progressive Era Vocabulary

Flashcards for Progressive Era Vocabulary Terms

Progressivism

Support for or advocacy of social reform

Margaret Sanger

The founder of the birth control movement in the United States

17th Amendment

Direct election of U.S. senators by the voters of the states

18th Amendment

Imposing the federal prohibition of alcohol

19th Amendment

Prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote based on sex

Muckrakers

Reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers in the Progressive Era

Panic of 1907

Three-week financial crisis in the United States, triggered by a failed attempt to corner the United Copper Company stock.

The Jungle

A novel by Upton Sinclair that exposes the harsh conditions and exploitation of immigrant workers in the meatpacking industry in Chicago

Carrie Chapman Catt

American feminist leader who played a key role in the women's suffrage movement

Women’s Christian Temperance Union

A pioneering women's organization that advocated for temperance and expanded its mission to include women's suffrage, labor laws, and other social reforms

Eugenics

Beliefs and practices aimed at improving the genetic quality of the human population through selective breeding

John Dewey

An influential American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer

Clayton Anti-Trust Act

U.S. law enacted to strengthen and clarify the Sherman Antitrust Act

Carrie Nation

A radical member of the temperance movement known for attacking alcohol-serving establishments with a hatchet

Charles A. Beard

An American historian who argued that economic interests significantly influenced the framing of the U.S. Constitution

Niagara Movement

A 1905 civil rights group led by W.E.B. Du Bois that demanded full equality for African Americans and opposed racial segregation

W.E.B. Du Bois

An African American scholar and activist who co-founded the NAACP and advocated for civil rights and higher education for Black Americans

Louis Brandeis

An American lawyer and the first Jewish U.S. Supreme Court Justice, known for championing social justice and opposing monopolies

Tuskegee Institute

A historically Black college founded in 1881 by Booker T. Washington to provide vocational and teacher training for African Americans

Hepburn Act 1906

A federal law that empowered the Interstate Commerce Commission to set maximum railroad rates and expanded its regulatory authority

Bull Moose Party

Nickname for the progressive party formed in 1912 by Theodore Roosevelt

Ida B. Wells

American investigative journalist, sociologist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement who lead an anti-lynching crusade