Progressive Era

Progressive Era

Working Conditions: Progressives addressed workplace efficiency and safety standards, child labor, workmen's compensation, minimum wages, and working hours for women.
Immigrant Living and Working Conditions: Immigrants came to America in groups many. They lived in apartments called tenements and were not paid very well. Immigrants worked in factories with very poor conditions.
Big Business: The government was bringing businesses down. They intervened in the economy, breaking up trusts, and regulating railroads and other industries.
Environmentalism: Many industries, railroads, and pollution was endangering the environment, so the environmentalists took action to protect the public lands and their health.
Women's Rights: The women fought for equal rights and education to end their suffrage and Susan B. Anthony was one of their leaders.
Racial Discrimination: Colored people did not have equal rights with the whites and could not do as much as them. This was because of the Jim Crow laws.
Theodore Roosevelt: Roosevelt was a leader in the Progressive Movement. He championed his "Square Deal" domestic policies, promising the average citizen fairness, breaking of trusts, regulation of railroads, and pure food and drugs.
Sherman Antitrust Act: The Act was the first legislation enacted by the U.S. Congress to curb concentrations of power that interfere with trade and reduce economic competition.
Clayton Antitrust Act: The Act was a federal law passed during the era of the Progressive Movement to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies.
Meat Inspection Act: The Act prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured that livestock were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. This was signed by Theodore Roosevelt signed this on June 30, 1906.
Pure Food and Drug Act: The Act prohibited the interstate transportation and sale of impure, contaminated food. The law was an important element of Roosevelt's Square Deal Domestic Policy.
Hull House: Hull House was a progressive social settlement aimed at reducing poverty by providing social services and education to working class immigrants and laborers.
19th Amendment: This granted women the right to vote and was a major step in the women's push through the Era.
National Wildlife Refuges: This was created to protect egrets and other birds from extinction through plume hunting. This was established by an executive order of President Theodore Roosevelt on March 14, 1903.
NAACP: This organization began on February 12, 1909 in New York City, New York. Its mission was to protect colored people from discrimination and to end segregation.
Tuskegee Institute: This all-black institution was founded in 1881 in Tuskegee, Alabama by Booker T. Washington.
Upton Sinclair: This man wrote almost 100 books. He acquired particular fame for his classic muck-raking novel The Jungle, which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.
Jane Addams: She was a progressive social reformer and activist, who was on the frontline of the settlement house movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Addams later became internationally respected for the peace activism that ultimately won her a Nobel Peace Prize in 1931, the first American woman to receive this honor.
Jacob Riis: He was a journalist and social reformer who publicized the crises in housing, education, and poverty at the height of European immigration to New York City in the late nineteenth century. He also helped set in motion an activist legacy linking photojournalism with reform.
National American Suffrage Association: This was an organization founded in 1869 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth C. Stanton. This fought to create the 19th Amendment.
Alice Paul: She was a vocal leader of the twentieth century women's suffrage movement, who advocated for and helped secure passage of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, granting women the right to vote.
John Muir: He was founder of the Sierra Club. Muir advocated preservation of natural resources from use, while Gifford Pinchot, a forester, called instead for conservation, the proper use of natural resources.
Gifford Pinchot: He was a forester who called for a conservation of natural resources. He wanted to use the resources for what they were intended for.
Act Woodrow Wilson: He presided over the passage of his progressive New Freedom domestic agenda. His first major priority was the passage of the Revenue Act of 1913, which lowered tariffs and implemented a federal income tax.
Booker T. Washington: He was a well-known African American educator and Progressive Era reformer who helped found the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Washington wanted to help poor African Americans in the South, so he became a teacher and trained other African Americans to be teachers.
William Howard Taft: He was the 27th President of the United States and Theodore Roosevelt's hand-picked successor. Taft also appointed conservatives to several key government posts, which embroiled him in controversy almost immediately.

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