US - The Progressive Era

Meat Inspection Act

Law that allowed the federal government to inspect meat sold across state lines and required federal inspection of meat processing plants.

What is the overall goal of Progressive Era

restore economic opportunities and correct injustices in american life. also protect public interest improve everyday life for average americans

General goals of the Progressive Era?

protect social welfare(people)

promoting moral improvement

creating economic reform

fostering efficiency

Jane Addams

founded the Hull House in Chicago

Suffrage

right to vote

Ida Tarbell

She was one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era who exposed corruption in the Standard Oil Company.

Recall

Process by which voters can remove elected officials from the office before their terms end.

Referendum

Process that allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by legislature.

Upton Sinclair

(Muckraker) Journalist who exposed labor and unsanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed to the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.

16th Amendment

Created the federal income tax.

Initiative

Voters can propose laws for a vote.

Progressivism

Movement that responded to the pressures of industrialization and urbanization by promoting reforms.

17th Amendment

Senators are elected directly by the people.

18th Amendment

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages.

19th Amendment

Women received the right to vote (suffrage).

Sherman Anti-trust Act

Created to outlaw monopolies and protect consumers.

Temperance Movement

An organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption

Tenement House Act

This law required each new tenement to be built with a central courtyard and to have a bathroom in each apartment.

Sierra Club

American environmental organization. Helped promote the protection of the environment and nature.

National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA)

Was a group that worked for the constitutional amendment to give woman the right to vote

Pure Food and Drug Act

The act that prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of impure of falsely labeled food and drugs

Muckrakers

Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public

Hull House

Settlement home designed as a welfare agency for needy families. It provided social and educational opportunities for working-class people in the neighborhood as well as improving some of the conditions caused by poverty.

Pendleton Act

Legislation that began the federal merit system. You MUST be qualified to have a government job.

Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

A group of women who advocated total abstinence from alcohol and who worked to get laws passed against alcohol.

Lincoln Steffens

Early muckraker who exposed the political corruption in many American cities

Nellie Bly

went undercover in a mental institution to expose the mistreatment of patients

Jacob Riis

Exposed social and political evils in the U.S. with his novel "How The Other Half Lives"; exposed the poor conditions of the poor tenements in NYC