Vocab #18 Define Progressive Era - Muckrakers

W.E.B. Du Bois

African American civil rights leader, cofounder of NAACP, pressed for civil and political, not just economic equality for African Americans

Ida Wells-Barnett

African American journalist, suffragist, and reformer; launched a national crusade against lynching in the 1890's; cofounder of the NAACP

Booker T. Washington

African American leader; founded Tuskegee Institute; urged vocational education as the way for African Americans to gain racial equality

Marcus Garvey

African American nationalist leader who wanted a separate black economy and urged African Americans to emigrate to Africa

Thomas Nast

Cartoonist who was the "Father of the American Cartoon". Brought attention to many social, economic, and political issues.

Muckrakers

Journalists who expose corruption in politics and big business

Jacob Riis

Muckraker of the Progressive Era; used photographs to show the need for better housing for the poor, in his 1890 book How the Other Half Lives

Upton Sinclair

Muckraking journalist of the Progressive Era; influenced the passage of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act with his novel The Jungle.

Ida Tarbell

Muckraking journalist whose History of Standard Oil Company exposed Rockefeller's unfair and often ruthless business practices

Lincoln Steffans

Muckraking journalist; wrote about corruption in government and business in his 1906 novel The Shame of the Cities

NAACP

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded to abolish segregation and discrimination

Environmental Conservation

Natural resources are limited and their use needs to be saved for future generations.

Frank Norris

Naturalist writer whose 1901 novel, The Octopus, expsoed corruption in railroad practices

Unified

To make or become a single unit; unite: to unify conflicting theories; to unify a country.

Vast Majority

Very great in number, the greater number or part ex. The vast majority of teachers look forward to snow days.