African-Americans
Workers
Women
Politics
Goals:
1. Government Controlled by People
2. Equal Economic opportunities
3. Eliminate Social Injustices
Jim Crow Laws segregated Blacks in
South
Lynching were common
Plessy v. Ferguson made segregation
LEGAL
-Child Labor -Long Hours
-Dangerous
-Low Pay
-No right to vote
-Corruption
-People lacked voice in government
-Great Migration of Blacks to North to escape discrimination
-Ida WELLS anti-lynching crusade
-Booker T. Washington emphasized education
W.E.B. DuBois founded NAACP to fight for equality
-Passage of Child Labor Laws
-Created Unions to protest:
Knights of Labor and American Federation of
Labor
-Muckrakers exposed abuses
-Passage of limiting hours laws
-Key leaders: Susan B. Anthony
-Marches
-Worked during World War I
-19 th Amendment—gave women right to vote
-Referendum, Recall and Initiative—gives voters choice in elections and laws
-Primary elections and direct election of senators

Questions:
1. The title of this chart is the_____________________________
2. One of the goals of the Progressive Era was to have government more controlled by the__________________________
3. Under the Jim Crow Laws, African-Americans were_________________or separated from whites in public places in the South. Ruling in ________________v. Ferguson made segregation legal
4. While Booker T. Washington emphasized___________________to help African-Americans, Du Bois founded the ___________________as a means to fight for equality
5. Two important worker’s unions founded during this era was the_______________________and the________________________
6. Women lacked the right to_____________________
7. Key women leaders, such as___________________________, helped to create a movement for women’s rights
8. Women were needed to work during_____________________I which helped to pass the
___________________amendment giving them the right to vote
9. Three measures, __________________, _____________________and Initiative all gave voters more choices in elections and the passage of laws