progressive era reform

  • florence kelly

    she was a reformer who worked tirelessly to prohibit child labor and imiprove working conditions for female workers
  • muckrackers

    investigative journalists who wrote about corruption in bussineses and politics, hoping to bring out to the world what the government and factories were doing...
  • upton sinclair "the jungle"

    his book gave detail of everything that was really going on in the food and drug industries..exposing everything that was bad
  • meat inspection act

    federal law that required government inspection of meat shipped across state lines
  • pure food and drug act

    it forbade the manufacture sale or transportatioin of food and patent medicine containing harmful ingridients
  • the octopus

    the octopus a novel written in the progressive era
  • prohibition

    the progressives wanted to clean up so they called for prohibition wich was a ban on the manufacture sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages
  • 18th amendment

    it prhibided the manufacturing sale and transportation of alcoholice beverages
  • americanization

    it was a process of preparing foreing born residents for full us citizenship..
  • prgressivism

    reform movement of the early 1900s concerned with curing problems of urbanization and industrialization..