Series of social and political reforms that sought to limit the power of big business, reduce corruption, help the poor, stop injustice, and generally improve society.
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Labor Unions
Used strikes to try to improve working conditions for workers around America
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Strike
Refusal to work
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Women’s suffrage
Movement pushing for the right to vote for women
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19th Amendment
Granted women the right to vote
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American Writer during the Progressive Movement, and was a leader of the Women Rights Movement during mid to late 19th century.
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Susan B. Anthony
American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.
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Carrie Chapman Catt
American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920.
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Alice Paul
Suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the main leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment
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T**emperance Movement**
Effort to outlaw alcohol.
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18th Amendment
(1920) Banned alcohol in America (ended in 1933)
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Nellie Bly
Pretended to be mentally ill in order to get an inside scoop of what really happened inside insane asylums (Blackwell’s Island). Also was the first woman to travel all the way around the world alone.
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Lewis Hine
**Photographed the working conditions of young children all over the country.**
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Muckraker
Journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government.
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**Jacob Riis**
Social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. Also an author.
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**Upton Sinclair**
pioneered the kind of journalism known as "muckraking." His best-known novel was "The Jungle".
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**Ida Tarbell**
American writer, investigative journalist, biographer and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era.
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John Spargo
Published “The Bitter Cry of Children”. It uncovered the ins-and-outs of child labor and about the horrible thing that were being done to children.
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Ida B. Wells
Led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She also fought for woman suffrage.
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