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Progressive Era

Progressive Era. A Time to Improve American Society. 1.Emigrate. To leave one’s homeland to settle permanently in another country PUSH factors include: bad government, hunger, religious persecution, not enough land, crop failure ,need jobs, the economy. . 2.Ethnic group.

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Progressive Era

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  1. Progressive Era A Time to Improve American Society

  2. 1.Emigrate • To leave one’s homeland to settle permanently in another country • PUSH factors include: bad government, hunger, religious persecution, not enough land, crop failure ,need jobs, the economy.

  3. 2.Ethnic group • A group of people who share a language and culture • Often new immigrants stayed with others from their ethnic group • In large urban centers ethnic neighborhoods formed and assimilation into American society slowed down

  4. 3.Steerage • Crowded, noisy place in the lowest part of a ship where passage is the cheapest • Many of the immigrants to America arrived aboard steerage • Always the danger of passing on disease

  5. 4.Sweatshop • Factory where workers worked long hours for very low wages in unsafe conditions • Often dangerous • Often employed women and children • Many immigrants took these jobs • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

  6. 5.Assimilate • When you begin to blend in and learn about the language and culture of the majority of people in the country • Often immigrants assimilated through public schools • Settlement houses offered help • Role of women and different religions made it hard to assimilate to American culture

  7. 6.Tenement • Building that had many people living in conditions without a lot of sanitation and safety • Typical apartment had 3 rooms • Usually residents were poor • Located in slum areas of urban city

  8. 7.Slum • Poor, run-down, crowded neighborhood • Tenements in them • Poor sanitation • Lack of clean water • Often had a particular ethnic group that settled there

  9. 8. Suburb • Middle-class, better homes • Outside the city…these were residential neighborhoods • Better transportation like subways, cars, and trolleys • Building of bridges made suburbs more practical for middle class

  10. 9. Gilded Age • Time where few people rich but most were poor • Name from book by Mark Twain • Meaning- just under the surface, society has lots of problems, poverty, and injustice

  11. 10. Settlement House • Provided community services • English classes, libraries, playgrounds, medical attention • Located in poor neighborhoods

  12. 11.Land-grant college • Federal government gave states land to sell to fund these schools • Morrill Act • Auburn and Miss. State • Women, Native Americans, and African Americans got more opportunities

  13. 12.Yellow-journalism • Newspapers ran gruesome dramatic details of a story to attract more readers • Sensational, biased, and often false reporting • Exaggeration

  14. 13.Patronage • Spoils system • Jobs given as favors after an election • Often these people were not qualified for the jobs • Caused the Pendleton Act- require civil service workers to take competitive tests

  15. 14.Civil service • the Pendleton Act- required civil service workers to take competitive tests • Federal government workers who are not elected or appointed

  16. 15.Trust • Companies that bind together in a legal agreement to reduce competition • Standard Oil is a trust

  17. 16.Muckrakers • Journalist and reporters who exposed bad things in society • Wrote stories, reports, and books to get attention given to topics that needed to be changed

  18. 17.Suffragist • Person who fought for women’s right to vote • Man or woman • Alice Paul- brought the idea of protest marches and hunger strikes from England’s suffragists to America • Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920 • Many western states had women’s suffrage already • First state..was Wyoming

  19. 18.Prohibition • Eighteenth Amendment prohibited the making and selling of alcohol • Ratified in 1919 • The 21st Amendment repealed this Act • NASCAR racing was a result of illegal “moonshine” runners

  20. 19.Trustbuster • Nickname for Theodore Roosevelt • Someone who broke up “bad” trusts into smaller companies • Roosevelt used the Sherman Antitrust Act to break up these companies

  21. 20.Square Deal • Roosevelt promised “square deal” which meant equal and fair treatment for all

  22. 21. Laissez-faire • French phrase • Means ”let the people do as they wish” • Idea that government should not interfere nation’s economy or regulate businesses • Many rich men like railroad Barons and Rockefeller did not want government to regulate them.

  23. 22. Conservation • Protection and preservation of natural resources • Theodore Roosevelt believed in conservation and made National forests and Parks

  24. 23. Discrimination • Unfair treatment of people based on race, religion, gender or other differences • Many immigrants faced discrimination especially because of religion • People faced discrimination because of poverty (socio-economic class) • African American and Chinese were facing discrimination and lynching • Ida B. Wells- wrote about lynching

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