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ELL - USH - Progressive Era

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  • WEB DuBois
    Believed African Americans should demand and fight for equality
  • National Parks
    Created by Theodore Roosevelt to protect the environment
  • Upton Sinclair
    A muckraker who investigated meatpacking
  • Accurate Labeling
    Companies have to list everything that is in a product
  • Trust
    Like a monopoly - a company that controls an entire industry
  • Society
    the everyday people in a country
  • Meatpacking
    a factory that processes meat
  • Social Darwinism
    Survival of the fittest, only the best will be successful
  • Equality
    having the same rights or being treated the same
  • Great Migration
    the movement of African Americans leaving the South and moving North
  • Migration
    the movement of people or animals from one place to another
  • Muckraker
    Investigative journalist
  • Harry Burns
    From Tennessee, voted to approve the 19th Amendment
  • Reform
    to make changes
  • Farm Women
    Women who worked on farms
  • Pure Food and Drug Act
    You can not sell contaminated and bad food to the public
  • Obligation
    something that you have to do
  • Contaminated
    bad, unsafe
  • Survive
    to live
  • Fittest
    to be healthy and successful
  • Theodore Roosevelt
    A president, he wanted to stop trusts and protect the environment
  • Regulate
    to control and manage with rules
  • Journalist
    Someone who writes for magazines or newspapers
  • 19th Amendment
    Gave women the right to vote
  • Progressive
    Moving forward to making society better
  • Opportunity
    the chance for a better life
  • The Public
    everyday people
  • Compromise
    coming to an agreement
  • Women in Industry
    Women who work in factories
  • The Jungle
    Book written by Upton Sinclair about meat packing
  • Amendment
    An addition to the United States Constitution
  • Perfect 36
    The number of states needed to approve the 19th Amendment
  • Booker T. Washington
    Believed African Americans should have equality, but slowly through hard work, job training, and compromise
  • Domestic Worker
    Women who worked in a home as a cleaner, babysitter, or cook
  • investigate
    to try and find information about a hidden topic
  • Monopoly
    one company controls an entire industry
  • Social Gospel
    Using Christian ideas to help those in need
  • Meat Inspection Act
    Required all meat to be checked and healthy
  • Child Labor
    Children working in factories Ages 5 to 15
  • Suffrage
    The right to vote
  • Ratify
    to approve or okay something
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