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Vocab Words Progressive movement Florence Kelley Prohibition Muckraker Initiative Referendum 17th Amendment
Progressive movement – reform (change) movement after the Gilded Age
Protecting social welfare
Promoting moral improvement
Creating economic reform
Fostering efficiency
Social Welfare – help people effected by harsh conditions of industrialization ex. Bad housing Help the poor through
community centers, church's and social services
YMCA – opened libraries, sponsored classes and built swimming pools
Salvation Army – fed the poor in soup kitchens, cared for children in nurseries
Jane Adams settlement house movement
Adams Hull House in Chicago – offered baths, cheap food, child care, job training, health care to the poor
Promoting Moral Improvements – moral and personal behavior needed changing to improve the lives of people example - alcohol abuse causing problems
Women’s Christian Temperance Union worked to end alcohol
Prohibition – banning of alcohol
18th Amendment – outlawed alcohol in the United States
Carrie Nation
Creating Economic Reform – questioning of Capitalism & started the Socialist Party in 1901 Concerned about the uneven balance among
big business, government, and ordinary people
Movement was not very popular but people saw the point behind it
Corruption – big business got favorable treatment from government officials and politicians
Muckrakers – journalist who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulated magazines during the 20th century
Ida M Tarbell wrote “History of the Standard Oil Company” (1904) – revealed Rockefeller’s ruthless business practices and called for the break up of large monopolies
Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” (1906) – revealed the unsanitary conditions of slaughterhouses & led to government regulations of the food industries
Pure Food & Drug Act – passed 1906, banned harmful products & ended false medicine claims
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