Unit 7: Growth of the Nation, 1865-1916 Name: ____________________ Block: _______
Topic 7: Progressives
Date:__________________
Progressive Era Reforms
Why?
Reaction to the problems and
excesses of the ___________
________(1870-1900)
What?
How?
Use the _________________ to
fix those problems
Who got them started? _________________________________ : Journalists who investigated and
exposed problems
(The Jungle by Upton Sinclair exposed conditions in the ___________________________ industry.
Ida Tarbell wrote History of the Standard Oil Company 2 years before the govt busted Rockefeller’s trust.)
Progressive Reforms
Social
1. _______________________


Jane Addams/Hull
House
Jacob Riis – Photos
2. _______________________
 Jacob Riis – Photos
3. ______________________
 Prohibition &
18th Amendment
Economic
1. _______________________
Goal:. __________________________
__________________________
________________________________
Trust-busting laws:
-
5. ______________________
 Professional fire, police
departments
 Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory Fire
 Referendum:
-
2. _______________________
 Initiative:
-
4. ______________________
 Child Labor laws
Political
 Recall:
3. ______________________
 Direct Election of Senators (17th
Amend)
-
 Secret Ballot
 Women’s Suffrage (19th Amendment
– Voting!)
Progressive Era Constitutional Amendments
_________
Amendment
_________
Amendment
_________
Amendment
_________
Amendment
This gave Congress the power to impose an
___________________
This called for ___________________________ of
_________________
Prohibited the manufacture and sale
of______________________________.
This gave ________________the right to
______________.
16-17-18-19: “Tax Senators who Drink with Women”
Progressive Era Presidents and their Policies
Theodore
Roosevelt
William H.
Taft
Woodrow
Wilson
“_____________________” – TR’s reforms
 Labor reforms
 Trust-busting
 Consumer Protection
 Environmental Protection

More trust-busting, fewer reforms
“_________________________”- Wilson’s
reforms
 More business regulation
 Lowered tariffs
 New income tax (16thAmendment)
 Women’s Suffrage (19th Amend)