Progressive Era Vocab

Investigative reporter who sought to make public the ills of society during the Gilded Age.

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• Muckraker

• Suffrage

Writers that helped spread Progressive's ideas. Wrote about muck that was going on.

• Rakers of muck

• muckrakers

• raking up the muck writers

• journalist

Progressive Era

• a novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century. 

• A social and political movement that aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct social/economic/political injustices in American life.

• Journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government.

• Photographer who exposed the horrible living conditions in the tenement buildings around American cities.  

Jacob Riis

• a novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century. 

• A social and political movement that aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct social/economic/political injustices in American life.

• Journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government.

• Photographer who exposed the horrible living conditions in the tenement buildings around American cities.  

The Jungle

• a novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century. 

• A social and political movement that aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct social/economic/political injustices in American life.

• Journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government.

• Photographer who exposed the horrible living conditions in the tenement buildings around American cities.  

Muckrakers

• a novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century. 

• A social and political movement that aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct social/economic/political injustices in American life.

• Journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government.

• Photographer who exposed the horrible living conditions in the tenement buildings around American cities.  

Ida B. Wells

• Author of the Jungle  

• A social and political movement that aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct social/economic/political injustices in American life.

• A muckraker who reported on the violent and vicious attacks on Black Americans in the early 20th century. 

• Photographer who exposed the horrible living conditions in the tenement buildings around American cities.  

Upton Sinclair

• Author of the Jungle  

• A social and political movement that aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct social/economic/political injustices in American life.

• A muckraker who reported on the violent and vicious attacks on Black Americans in the early 20th century. 

• Photographer who exposed the horrible living conditions in the tenement buildings around American cities.  

Tenements

• Author of the Jungle  

• A social and political movement that aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct social/economic/political injustices in American life.

• A muckraker who reported on the violent and vicious attacks on Black Americans in the early 20th century. 

• A run-down apartment buildings

______ _____ took the image to the side.

• Ida B. Wells

• Upton Sinclair

• Jacob Riis