Progressive Era

Reformers

people who work for change

Muckrakers

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

Progressive Era

period of political and social reform that lasted roughly from the 1890s to the 1920s

Salvation Army

This welfare organization came to the US from England in 1880 and sought to provide food, shelter, and employment to the urban poor

Jane Addams

the founder of Hull House, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes

Settlement Houses

Community centers located in the slums and near tenements that gave aid to the poor, especially immigrants

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.

Upton Sinclair

muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. The book was fiction but based on the things Sinclair had seen.

Ida Tarbell

A leading muckraker and magazine editor, she exposed the corruption of the oil industry with her 1904 work A History of Standard Oil.

John Spargo

Wrote, The Bitter Cry of the Children in 1906 which was about abuses of child labor.

Ida B. Wells

African-American journalist who led the fight against lynching

Suffrage

the right to vote

19th Amendment

Gave women the right to vote

18th Amendment

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages

Temperance

restraint or moderation, especially in regards to alcohol or food

W.E.B. DuBois

Co-founded the NAACP to help secure legal equality for minority citizens.

Booker T. Washington

proponent of gradual gain of equal rights for African-Americans