The Progressive Movement Timeline And Terms

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Clara Barton assists in founding the American Red Cross

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1881

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Booker T. Washington founds the ____ in Alabama.

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1881; Tuskegee Institute

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Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Star open Hull House in Chicago

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1889

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The Sherman Anti-Trust Act is enacted

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1890

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Almost 2 hundred _____s are lynched in the U.S.

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1892; African-Americans

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President McKinley is assassinated; Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

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1901

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Ida Tarbell writes an expose of the Standard Oil Trust Company

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1904

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_____ Workers of the World is formed

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1905; Industrial

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Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle

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1906

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The federal Meat Inspection Act is passed

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1906

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The Pure Food and Drug Act

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1906

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The NAACP is founded.

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1909

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The National ______ Commission is formed.

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1909; Conservation

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Woodrow Wilson is elected president of the United States

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1912

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The ____ Anti-Trust Act is passed

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1914; Clayton

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World War 1 begins in Europe

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1914

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A monopolistic company, founded in the late 19th century by John D. Rockefeller, which controlled much of the ___, ____, and ___ in the U.S.

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Standard Oil; production, refining, and transport of oil

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An American reform movement with both major political parties, from about _ to _ that pressed for legislation to reform many aspects of America's _ and _ system.

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Progressivism; 1890; WW1; Urban; Industrial;

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The first social settlement house in America

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Hull House

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Founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Star in Chicago in 1889

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Hull House

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Served as shelter and educational center, especially for children of immigrants

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Hull House

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One of the political and social goals of Progressives which sought to regulate the age and the conditions of work for children

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Child Labor Reform

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The act of getting people of different ethnic cultures to change their ways by adopting American culture.

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Americanize

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First organized after the Revolution as a patriotic society on New York City

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Tammany Hall

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Became a political pub and then the Democratic political machine that controlled the politics of the city

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Tammany Hall

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A term first used by President Theodore Roosevelt to describe writers and journalists such as ___, ___, and ___ who exposed the problems of America's _____ system.

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Muckrakers ; Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, and Upton Sinclair; industrial

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A shocking, best-selling 1906 book written by ___ that addressed dangerous and unsanitary conditions in America's _____.

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The Jungle; Upton Sinclair; meat processing plants

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A 1906 law passed by the _____ administration that created agencies to ensure that __ and ___ produced by American corporations were safe.

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The Pure Food and Drug Act; Roosevelt; food and medicines

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During the Progressive Era, the term first used to describe a business monopoly.

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Trust

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A term to describe legal and court actions that attempted to break up the trusts and to make _ illegal

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Trust-Busting; monopolies

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A law approved in 1914 that increased government regulation of business, attempting to limit monopolistic practices by America's largest corporations.

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Clayton Anti-Trust Act

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A law passed by Congress in 1913 that created the Federal Reserve System, the U.S. central banking system that regulates the nation's money supply.

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Federal Reserve Act

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The political party founded by _ to enable him to run as a third party candidate in the election of _.

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Progressive Party; Teddy Roosevelt; 1912

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Bull Moose Party

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Progressive Party

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A decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in ___ that legalized the segregation of the races through "separate but equal" facilities.

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Plessy vs. Furguson; 1896

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A particularly brutal vigilante or mob killing of another person.

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Lynching

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1,000s of African Americans were ___ in the South in late ___ and early ___ centuries.

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Lynched; 19th and early 20th

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A political party in the U.S., founded by Eugene Debs in 1901

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Socialist Party

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Workers should own the means of production

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Socialist Party

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Debs received nearly one million votes in the presidential election of____.

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1912

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A union that believed that workers should own the means of production but which also believed in using ___ and ____ to achieve their goal.

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Industrial Workers of the World; strikes and sabotage

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Organization was known as the "Wobblies"

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Industrial Workers of the World

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Reformers, such as Susan B. Anthony, who worked to obtain the right for women to vote.

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Suffragists