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Unit 7 - 4. The Progressive Movement
The Progressive Era (1900-1914) grew out of the nation’s social, economic, and political problems created
during the Gilded Age by the Industrial Revolution. Progressives sought necessary reforms for problems
caused by the abuses of big business, the negative effects of industrialization, political corruption, slum life,
child labor, and the unfair treatment of women and other minorities.
Essential Questions
1a. What specific social problems needed reform in
the late 19th century?
Vocabulary
Progressives
Muckrakers
1b. What specific economic problems needed
reform in the late 19th century?
Upton Sinclair
Jacob Riis
1c. Explain how the following political problems
needed reform in the late 19th century:
Ida Tarbell
Corruption/Patronage:
Thomas Nast
Political Machines:
2. What commissions were set up by the federal
government to regulate business?
Temperance movement
Suffragists
Theodore Roosevelt
3. How did the following amendments and
legislation help reform society during the
Progressive Era?
16th Amendment-
William Taft
Woodrow Wilson
17th Amendment-
Civil Service Commission
Boss Tweed/Tammany Hall
18th Amendment-
Initiative
19th AmendmentReferendum
Pure Food and Drug Act-
Recall
Primary
Meat Inspection Act-
NAACP
Sherman and Clayton Anti-Trust Acts-
Booker T. Washington
Federal Reserve Act-
W.E.B. Du Bois
Seneca Falls Convention
Susan B. Anthony