Review Muckrakers

These were people who wanted to solve the many problems of the nation.

If people know about the problems. They will fix them!

Progressives

What was a problem for people or for the country during the Progressive Era? 1900-1915

Unsafe Housing, bad working conditions. No laws about the quality of food or

Medicine. Child Labor Unfair business practices Racial discrimination

Muckrakers

These were writers who researched the problems, printed in books a newspapers.

Theodore Roosevelt named them. Raked up dirt, found out bad things, and let

people know about them.

This person Wrote “The Jungle” Which was about the unsafe and filthy

working conditions in meat packing plants.

Upton Sinclair

Roosevelt pushed this through, said all food and drugs must meat quality standards and label correctly.

Pure Food and Drug Act of 19o6

This was the future leader of Austria-Hungary.

But was killed on June 28, 1914. Helped start WWI

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Name 1 country for the Central Powers or Triple Entente

Austria-Hungary Germany Ottoman Empire

Name a country who was a member of the Allies.

France Russia Great Britain Serbia

This was the submarine that the Germans used.

They Sank many ships that carried the Allies supplies

U-Boat

This ship was secretly carrying weapons to Great Britain from the U.S.

Sank by a U-boat, 1,200 passengers killed, 128 Americans

Lusitania

Drought hit the Great Plains in the 1930’s. Strong winds would lift dry soil and started start storms.

Dust Bowl

Families that packed up and moved to California looking for jobs during the 1920s.

Okies

This is the treaty that Panama signed, and agreed to lease a 10 mile strip of land of their country, called the Panama Canal Zone, to the United States.

Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty

Describe the conditions building the Panama Canal

Lots of mosquitos that carried yellow fever and malaria, so they drained swamps and ponds.

Hot-Humid Climate Dangerous work

What were differences between the American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association?

NWSA – Pushed for a constitutional amendment. Protests would include showing up on election day and set up their own mock elections.

AWSA -Believed that pressuring state governments was the most effective route. Would lobby state governments.

Daughter of Lucy and Henry. Helped combine the NWSA and

AWSA into the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

(NAWSA)

Alice Stone Blackwell

This Amendment gave women the right to vote.

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