The Progressive Era Flashcards
Goal of the Granger movement and the Populist Party
Improve working conditions for farmers
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Union designed to improve working conditions
used strikes and other aggressive tactics to improve working conditions.
Goal of the Progressive Movement
fix the issues caused by industrialization like overcrowded tenements and unsanitary food production
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Workers unable to escape (locked into factory), with no fire escape window. All died; further encouraged reform movements for safer working conditions
Collective Bargaining
Discussions between labor union leaders and management to agree on a contract for workers
Muckrakers
Journalists of the Progressive era who attempted to expose the evils of government and big business. Many wrote of the corruption of city and state politics and about factory/living conditions
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.
Lead to the Meat Inspection Act
Jacob Riis
A Danish immigrant 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”
19th Amendment
Gave women the right to vote
passed during the Progressive Era
Christian Temperance Movement
helps get Prohibition passed. 18th Amendment
Reason why the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act were passed
to ensure the safety of American consumers
Graduated Income Tax
The amount of money you are taxed on earnings charges depending on how much money you make. 16th Amendment. Passed during the Progressive Era
Progressive Era changes that gave more power to the people
Primaries, the secret ballot, and the use of initiative, referendum, and recall. The direct election of Senators
