The Progressive Era

  • %%Progressive Era%%
    • The Progressive Era (the late 1890s to 1920) was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States focused on defeating corruption, monopoly, waste, and inefficiency.
  • %%Lynching%%
    • (of a mob) kill (someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial.
  • %%NAACP%%
    • the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was established in 1909 and is America's oldest and largest civil rights organization.
  • %%motion picture industry%%
    • comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking.
  • %%“Birth of a Nation”%%
    • two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine in director D.W. Griffith's controversial Civil War epic.
  • %%Muckraking%%
    • the action of searching out and publicizing scandalous information about famous people in an underhanded way.
  • %%professional class%%
    • During this period, doctors, lawyers, teachers, social workers, and others all formed organizations that set standards for their profession and became active in political and social affairs.
  • %%Socialists%%
    • someone who supports a political or economic philosophy that says society as a whole, rather than private companies, should own or control various goods and services.
  • %%monopolies%%
    • a business completely controlling one product or marketplace
  • %%Theodore Roosevelt%%
    • an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
  • %%Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)%%
    • a United States antitrust law that prescribes the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce.
  • %%Meat Inspection Act (1906)%%
    • prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured sanitary slaughtering and processing of livestock.
  • %%“The Jungle”%%
    • a 1906 novel by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. The novel portrays the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities.
  • %%Pure Food and Drug Act%%
    • the first law regulating other food drugs.
  • %%Hepburn Act (1906)%%
    • gave the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to regulate \n railroad rates.
  • %%Triangle Shirtwaist Company%%
    • a fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on Saturday, March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history.
  • %%organized labor%%
    • workers joined through membership in trade unions.
  • %%William H. Taft%%
    • the 27th president of the United States and the tenth chief justice of the United States, the only person to have held both offices.
  • %%Woodrow Wilson%%
    • an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921.
  • %%16th Amendment%%
    • allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population.
  • %%Populist Party%%
    • a left-wing political party in the United States in the late 19th century with the goal of income tax.
  • %%17th Amendment%%
    • allowed voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators.
  • %%women’s suffrage%%
    • the right of women to vote in elections.
  • %%19th Amendment%%
    • granted women the right to vote.
  • %%birth control movement%%
    • a social reform campaign beginning in 1914 that aimed to increase the availability of contraception in the U.S. through education and legalization.
  • %%Margaret Sanger%%
    • an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse.
  • %%temperance movement%%
    • a social movement promoting temperance or complete abstinence from the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
  • %%18th Amendment%%
    • established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States.
  • %%repealed%%
    • revoke or annul (a law or congressional act).
  • %%21st Amendment%%
    • repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which mandated the nationwide prohibition of alcohol.
  • %%20th Amendment%%
    • moved the beginning and ending of the terms of the president and vice president from March 4 to January 20, and of members of Congress from March 4 to January 3.