Name:Period:
Progressive Era / Women’s Suffrage
Progressive Era – all terms are Focus (F) Terms
- Progressive Era
- Immigration
- Old vs. New Immigrants – America’s context
- Nativism
- Assimilation
- Urbanization
- Urban vs. Rural
- Suburb
- Social Gospel – Christian principles
- compulsory education laws and John Dewey’s historical context
- Vaudeville
- Ragtime and “Maple Leaf Rag”
- Baseball – historical context
- Newspaper(importance for this time period):
- Yellow Journalism
- McClure’s Magazine
- Muckrakers
- Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities
- Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
- Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
- Ida Tarbell, History of Standard Oil
- Knights of Labor
- Samuel Gompers – American Federation of Labor
- William “Big Bill” Haywood – Industrial Workers of the World
- Muller v Oregon (1908) – Working Women’s Hours
- Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911)
- Temperance / Prohibition
- 17th Amendment – Directly elect senators
- 18th Amendment – Prohibition
- 19th Amendment – Women’s Suffrage
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- NAACP, The Crisis
- Plessy v Ferguson (1896)
- Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan – movie: Birth of a Nation
- Tenement Houses
- Settlement Houses
- Jane Addams – Hull House
- Slums:
- Ghettos:
- “Robber Barons”
- Andrew Carnegie and “The Gospel of Wealth”
- Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
- Northern Securities Case (1904)
- Clayton Anti-Trust Act
- Trust Busting
- John D. Rockefeller and May 1911 / Standard Oil “busted”
- Wisconsin Governor – Robert M. La Follette
- Secret Ballots
- Pendleton Civil Service Act
- Meat Inspection Act (1906) and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
- Hepburn Act (1906)
- Gifford Pinchot and the Forest Service (1905)
- Theodore Roosevelt – New Nationalism and The Square Deal
- William Taft
- Woodrow Wilson and New Freedom
- Election of 1912, Republicans, Democrats, and The Bull Moose Party (Progressive Party) – significance of
- Federal Trade Commission (1914)
- Federal Reserve Act of 1913
- Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act (1913)
- Keating-Owen Child Labor Act (1916)
Political Cartoon: unknown author and date
TR as the lion tamer, taming the trusts
Women’s Suffrage – all terms are Focus (F) Terms
- Punch:
- Puck:
- Cult of Domesticity:
- Amelia Bloomer – “bloomers”:
- Margaret Sanger – Birth Control :
- Temperance:
- Francis E. Willard – Women’s Christian Temperance Movement:
- Sojourner Truth – Ain’t I Women:
- Ida B. Wells – anti-lynching campaign:
- Jane Addams – Hull House:
- Suffrage:
- Seneca Falls Convention:
- Seneca Falls – Declaration of Sentiments:
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton:
- Susan B. Anthony:
- National Woman Suffrage Association:
- Carrie Chapman Catt – Nation American Woman Suffrage Association:
- Alice Paul – National Women’s Party:
- 19th Amendment:
- Research anti-women’s suffrage leagues – focus on arguments against suffrage and did male and female leagues exist:
In you opinion, why was this political cartoon titled “Reform”?
Essential Unit Questions:
- How did the corruption and industrial growth of the late 19th century produce the Progressive Era?
- Explain the importance of key historical actors in the developing answers to the era’s corruption.
- Why did women want the right to vote, what did it mean to them?
- When did women receive the right to vote and what was the national response to this?
“The Last Few Buttons are always the Hardest”