Reading Assignment
The Progressive Era and the New South (2015)
SSUSH13 – The student will identify major efforts to reform American society and politics in the Progressive Era.
a. Explain Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and federal oversight of the meatpacking industry.
b. Identify Jane Addams and Hull House and describe the role of women in reform movements.
c. Describe the rise of Jim Crow, Plessy v. Ferguson, and the emergence of the NAACP.
d. Explain Ida Tarbell’s role as a muckraker.
e. Describe the significance of progressive reforms such as the initiative, recall, and referendum; direct election of
senators; reform of labor laws; and efforts to improve living conditions for the poor in cities.
f. Describe the conservation movement and the development of national parks and forests; include the role of Theodore
Roosevelt.
Identify/Define/Answer:
1. Booker T. Washington (556) – What was his strategy for equality for African Americans?
2. W.E.B. Dubois (556-557) – What was his strategy for equality for African Americans?
3. Niagara Movement (557)
4. Poll tax (565)
5. Grandfather clauses (565)
6. Jim Crow laws (565)
7. Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 (566) – What was the case about? What were its results?
8. Lynching (566)
9. Ida B. Wells (567)
10. NAACP (567)
11. Upton Sinclair and The Jungle (614) – subject and effects of book
12. Muckrakers (616)
13. Ida Tarbell (617)
14. Jane Addams and Hull House (542, 618)
15. Describe the Triangle Factory Fire – causes, results (621)
16. Define initiative, referendum, and recall (624) – How does each give the American voter more power?
17. Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act (626) – How did each protect consumers?
18. 16th, 17th, and 18th amendments (627)
19. Clayton Antitrust Act (632) – How did it attempt to control big business monopolies?
20. Federal Reserve System (632-633)
21. Susan B. Anthony (636)
22. NAWSA (637)
23. 19th amendment (639)