Video Notes: Roosevelt, Lynching, and Early Progressive Era

A set of vocabulary-style flashcards covering key figures, events, and concepts from the video notes, including Roosevelt’s conservation era, lynching and anti-lynching activism, landmark labor cases, and the Progressive Era.

Theodore Roosevelt

26th U.S. president who popularized conservation and protection of nature; promoted national parks and wilderness preservation.

Conservation

The protection and managed use of natural resources; Roosevelt’s policy to preserve wilderness and set lands aside for future generations.

National Parks (Roosevelt era)

Protected landscapes like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon; expansion of lands set aside for public protection.

East Africa Safari (Roosevelt, 1908)

Roosevelt and his son’s hunting expedition in East Africa, resulting in hundreds of animal kills and reflecting his view of nature as a masculine proving ground.

Lynching

Extrajudicial killings of Black people, mostly in the South, used to terrorize communities and uphold white supremacy; about 2,500 between 1880–1900.

Ida B. Wells (Wells-Barnett)

African American journalist and anti-lynching advocate who documented lynching and exposed false narratives about assaults on white women.

Southern Horrors (Wells-Barnett)

Wells-Barnett’s investigative book on lynching, arguing that white claims of Black assaults on white women were often fiction and that lynching served to suppress Black progress.

Mary Ellen Wilson

A case of severe child abuse in New York City that highlighted child welfare neglect; helped spark attention to child protection and reforms.

Lochner v. New York (1905)

Supreme Court decision striking down a New York law limiting bakery workers’ hours, establishing the idea of liberty of contract and curbing state labor regulation.

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911)

deadly NYC factory fire where 146 workers died after doors were locked; spurred labor reform and workplace safety activism.

Frances Perkins

Witness to the Triangle Fire who dedicated her life to labor reform; later became the first female U.S. Secretary of Labor and a key Progressive Era reformer.

Alice Roosevelt

Theod​ore Roosevelt’s daughter, noted for a spirited, sometimes rebellious public persona; involved in a White House wedding marked by Roosevelt escorting her down the aisle.

Progressive Era

Early 20th-century reform movement addressing poverty, working conditions, health care gaps, and the power of big business; emphasis on social welfare and labor rights.