The Progressive Era

Learning Targets:
I can analyze the effectiveness of Progressive Era political reforms in addressing the problems of the late nineteenth & early 
twentieth centuries.

Critical Vocabulary:
Jacob A. Riis, How the Other Half Lives, “Muckrakers,”Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, Eugene V. Debs, William “Big Bill” Haywood, Mary Harris “Mother” Jones, Industrial Workers of the World, Social Gospel Movement, Robert La Follette, Wisconsin Idea, National Child Labor Committee, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, Florence Kelley, National Consumers League, Muller v. Oregon, National American Woman’s Suffrage Association, Nineteenth Amendment, Plessy v. Ferguson, Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, “Atlanta Compromise,” W.E.B. Du Bois, Niagara Movement, “Square Deal,” Anthracite Coal Strike, Northern Securities Company, “Trust-Buster,” Department of Commerce and Labor, Elkins Act, Hepburn Act, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Newlands Act of 1902, John Muir, Sierra Club, Payne-Aldrich Tariff, Ballinger-Pinchot Dispute, “Old Guard” Republicans,“New Nationalism,” “Bull Moose” Party, “New Freedom,” “Triple Wall of Privilege,”Underwood Tariff Bill, Sixteenth Amendment, Federal Reserve Act, Federal Reserve Board, Federal Trade Commission Act, Clayton Anti-Trust Act