Progressive Era Word Search
This Progressive Era word search follows the reformers who took on big business and city bosses: the muckraker writers Tarbell and Sinclair, Addams at Hull House, the trustbuster Roosevelt, La Follette of Wisconsin, and the Sixteenth and Seventeenth amendments.
Theodore Roosevelt gave the reporters their name in a 1906 speech, borrowing the man with the muckrake from The Pilgrim's Progress, who looked only at the filth on the floor. Ida Tarbell's history of Standard Oil laid out how Rockefeller crushed his rivals, and Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle described the Chicago stockyards so plainly that Congress passed the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act that same year. Sinclair had wanted readers to pity the workers, and he said he aimed at the public's heart and hit it in the stomach.
The Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911 killed 146 garment workers in New York, many of them young immigrant women trapped behind locked doors, and the state rewrote its factory laws. In 1913 the Sixteenth Amendment allowed a federal income tax and the Seventeenth let voters elect senators directly. When Roosevelt ran again in 1912 on the Progressive ticket, he said he felt as strong as a bull moose, and the party had its nickname.
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- Addams
- Antitrust
- Bull Moose
- Child Labor
- Clayton
- Conservation
- Debs
- Du Bois
- Graft
- Hine
- Hull House
- Income Tax
- Initiative
- Kelley
- La Follette
- Meatpacking
- Muckraker
- Muir
- NAACP
- Pinchot
- Primary
- Pure Food
- Recall
- Referendum
- Reform
- Roosevelt
- Settlement
- Seventeenth
- Shirtwaist
- Sinclair
- Sixteenth
- Square Deal
- Steffens
- Stockyards
- Taft
- Tarbell
- Taylorism
- Temperance
- Trustbuster
- Wilson