The document provides information about key events and people from the Progressive Era and early 20th century America, including: 1. Jane Addams founded Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago that provided assistance to immigrants. 2. Muckrakers like Ida Tarbell exposed corruption in large businesses through investigative journalism. 3. Progressive reforms aimed to protect social welfare, promote moral improvement, and create economic reform through initiatives like women's suffrage and prohibiting child labor.

2. Quiz Chapter 16
1. Landmark case that stated ‘’separate but equal”
2. An architecture who was known as the “Father of the
Skyscraper”
3. Name the brothers who invented airplane
4. Name two voting restriction in the south
6. Name the person who invented the kodak camera
7. Who manufactured bicycle
8. Who developed coca cola
9. A former slave who believed education is the key to
success
10. Laws that segregated blacks in the South

3. Progressivism-
to correct injustices in
American life
• three areas of
reform:
– Protecting
social welfare
– Promote moral
improvement
– Create
economic
reform

4. Hull House – a settlement house set up by Jane
Addams (community center in slum neighborhoods,
provides assistance, especially immigrants)

5. • Salvation Army- to aid poor and needy

6. YMCA
• Young Men's Christian
Association
• To help young adult use time wisely
• Offered libraries, classes, sports

7. Ida Tarbell
• Exposed the
corrupt Standard
Oil Company and
its owner, John D.
Rockefeller
• Appealed to
middle class
scared by large
business power
Muckrakers
• Journalists exposes corruption

8. NAACP
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• activists to fight for the rights of African Americans

9. Florence Kelley
• helped push legislature to prohibit child labor
and to limit women’s working hours.

10. Prohibition
• called for a ban on making, selling,
and distributing alcoholic beverages.

11. • Progressives wanted fairer elections and to make
politicians more accountable to voters.
– direct primary, an election in which voters
choose candidates to run in a general election

12. Initiative
allows citizens to propose new laws

13. Referendum
allows citizens to vote on a proposed
or existing law

14. Recall
allows voters to
remove an elected
official from office

15. Seventeenth Amendment
• Voters has the power to elect their U.S.
senators.

16. Susan B. Anthony
• Helped passed the 19th
amendment
– Gave women the right to vote
• Suffrage
– Right to vote