1. The Progressive Movement
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2. Upton Sinclair
Progressive writer – expose on meat packing industry in US
The Jungle (1906) was an immediate success selling over 150,000 copies.

3. Florence Kelley Leader in area of work reform: Prohibit child labor
Regulate sweatshops
Limit hours of work for women

4. Mother Jones
Irish immigrant who was inspired by her own personal convictions and tragedies.
Organized unions in the mines of West Virginia and Colorado.

5. What was a “muckraker”?
Muckraker is a name that was first given to American writers in the early 20th century who exposed corruption and scandals in business and politics.

6. Ida Tarbell
Famous exposé of the Standard Oil Company and its executive, John D. Rockefeller

7. The Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1911
146 workers died in an unsafe factory when a fire broke out.
The doors were locked and many women jumped to their deaths.

13. Jim Crow
After the end of Reconstruction, African Americans in the South lost their hard-won political rights.
Jim Crow (segregation) became a fact of life in the South.

15. Lynching

17. Woman’s Suffrage

22. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Leaders….
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

23. Protest at White House…