Progressive Era
Black Civil Rights
Booker T Washington
Tuskeegee Institute
WEB DuBois
NAACP
Muckrakers
Ida Tarbell
Lincoln Steffens
Upton Sinclair
"The Jungle"
Author
Robert M. La Follette, Sr
Women's issues
Temperance
Suffrage
Amendments
19th
18th
17th
16th
Legal Stuff
Primary System
allowed party members to vote directly for a candidate
Initiative
Proposed Law
initiated by the people
Recall
voting someone out of office
Referendum
Vote to keep or get rid of existing law
Granger Movements
populism
Conflict
Railroads
Farmers
Societal Veiws
Social Gospel
Social Darwinism
Herbert Spencer
"Survival of the fittest
President
Teddy Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Labor
Union
American federation of Labor
The Knights of Labor
Reforms
Women Labor
8 hr workday
Efforts were initially met with strong resistance
Encouraged Safety Laws
opposed sweatshop labor
Child labor
Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)
restricts trade of child produced goods
establish minimum wage
Keating-Owen Act
U.S. Supreme Court declared law unconstitutional
Prohibit the interstate trade of good produce with child labor
U.S. Children's bureau
greater awareness to the issue of child labor
President Taft
1 out of every 6 children between the ages of 5 and 10 were working
National Child Labor Committee (NCLC)