Name:Period:

Progressive Era / Women’s Suffrage

Progressive Era – all terms are Focus (F) Terms

  1. Progressive Era
  2. Immigration
  3. Old vs. New Immigrants – America’s context
  4. Nativism
  5. Assimilation
  6. Urbanization
  7. Urban vs. Rural
  8. Suburb
  9. Social Gospel – Christian principles
  10. compulsory education laws and John Dewey’s historical context
  11. Vaudeville
  12. Ragtime and “Maple Leaf Rag”
  13. Baseball – historical context
  1. Newspaper(importance for this time period):
  2. Yellow Journalism
  3. McClure’s Magazine
  4. Muckrakers
  5. Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities
  6. Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
  7. Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
  8. Ida Tarbell, History of Standard Oil
  1. Knights of Labor
  2. Samuel Gompers – American Federation of Labor
  3. William “Big Bill” Haywood – Industrial Workers of the World
  4. Muller v Oregon (1908) – Working Women’s Hours
  5. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911)
  1. Temperance / Prohibition
  2. 17th Amendment – Directly elect senators
  3. 18th Amendment – Prohibition
  4. 19th Amendment – Women’s Suffrage
  1. W.E.B. Du Bois
  2. NAACP, The Crisis
  3. Plessy v Ferguson (1896)
  4. Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan – movie: Birth of a Nation
  1. Tenement Houses
  2. Settlement Houses
  3. Jane Addams – Hull House
  4. Slums:
  5. Ghettos:
  1. “Robber Barons”
  2. Andrew Carnegie and “The Gospel of Wealth”
  3. Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
  4. Northern Securities Case (1904)
  5. Clayton Anti-Trust Act
  6. Trust Busting
  7. John D. Rockefeller and May 1911 / Standard Oil “busted”
  1. Wisconsin Governor – Robert M. La Follette
  2. Secret Ballots
  3. Pendleton Civil Service Act
  4. Meat Inspection Act (1906) and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
  5. Hepburn Act (1906)
  6. Gifford Pinchot and the Forest Service (1905)
  7. Theodore Roosevelt – New Nationalism and The Square Deal
  8. William Taft
  9. Woodrow Wilson and New Freedom
  10. Election of 1912, Republicans, Democrats, and The Bull Moose Party (Progressive Party) – significance of
  11. Federal Trade Commission (1914)
  12. Federal Reserve Act of 1913
  13. Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act (1913)
  14. 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

  1. Punch:
  2. Puck:
  3. Cult of Domesticity:
  4. Amelia Bloomer – “bloomers”:
  5. Margaret Sanger – Birth Control :
  6. Temperance:
  7. Francis E. Willard – Women’s Christian Temperance Movement:
  8. Sojourner Truth – Ain’t I Women:
  9. Ida B. Wells – anti-lynching campaign:
  10. Jane Addams – Hull House:
  11. Suffrage:
  12. Seneca Falls Convention:
  13. Seneca Falls – Declaration of Sentiments:
  14. Elizabeth Cady Stanton:
  15. Susan B. Anthony:
  16. National Woman Suffrage Association:
  17. Carrie Chapman Catt – Nation American Woman Suffrage Association:
  18. Alice Paul – National Women’s Party:
  19. 19th Amendment:
  20. 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:

  1. How did the corruption and industrial growth of the late 19th century produce the Progressive Era?
  2. Explain the importance of key historical actors in the developing answers to the era’s corruption.
  3. Why did women want the right to vote, what did it mean to them?
  4. When did women receive the right to vote and what was the national response to this?

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