The Progressive Era- Winkler

Vocabulary practice flashcards covering key figures, concepts, legislation, and constitutional amendments of the Progressive Era.

muckrakers

Writers who exposed the problems of the Gilded Age

The Progressive Era

Reform period from 1900-1920 that sought to fix the problems of the Gilded Age (late 1800s)

Upton Sinclair

Muckraker that wrote The Jungle

municipal

City or local level of government

Jacob Riis

Journalist that wrote How the Other Half Lives showing the horrors of life in the tenements

Ida Tarbell

Muckraker that wrote The History of Standard Oil about the ruthlessness of Rockefeller

Goals of the Progressive Era

Included making the government more efficient and less corrupt, giving people more of a voice in the government, and looking out for the health and safety of the citizens

Teddy Roosevelt

Progressive President that was known as the "trustbuster"

Alice Paul

Suffragist who wanted to lobby Congress directly for a constitutional amendment granting women's voting rights; head of NWP (National Women's Party)

William Howard Taft

The least active and reform-minded of all of the Progressive Era presidents

Woodrow Wilson

Democrat, elected in 1912, who was known for "New Freedom"—wanting to support small businessmen by tackling banks, tariffs, and trusts

W.E.B. Dubois

African-American reformer who believed in a liberal arts education and testing the laws by using the courts to gain full political and social equality

Carrie Chapman Catt

A leader of NAWSA who promoted the state-by-state campaign for women's suffrage

suffrage

Voting rights

Booker T. Washington

African-American reformer who promoted a vocational education with the belief that with economic equality, social equality would come

initiative

Reform to the law-making process that gave voters the ability to propose a law to the state legislature

reform

Change for the better

recall

The ability to remove a state public official before the next election

The primary system

Elections in which party members get to vote for who their party's candidate will be

referendum

Process by which the public gets to vote on a law passed by the state legislature

Square Deal

Teddy Roosevelt's plan to control corporations, protect the consumers, and promote conservation of the nation's resources

Meat Inspection Act

Law passed in 1906 that stated any meat that crossed state lines was subject to federal inspection

Pure Food and Drug Act

Consumer protection law that stated ingredient labels must be placed on products

Conservationist

Someone like Teddy Roosevelt who wanted to limit the use of natural resources so future generations had them readily available

New Nationalism

Teddy Roosevelt's platform in 1912 that included women's suffrage, minimum wage, and workmen's compensation

Bull Moose Party

Teddy Roosevelt's third party that was considered Progressive in 1912

Federal Reserve System

A stable national banking system created during the Wilson administration

13th Amendment

Abolished slavery

segregation

Separation of races

15th Amendment

Granted African-American men the right to vote (universal male suffrage)

Jim Crow Laws

Created legalized segregation in the South

de facto

Type of segregation found in the North that is caused by economic and social conditions

voting restrictions

Created by southern state governments to keep African-Americans from voting, including poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses

de jure

Segregation "by law"; the type of segregation that was found in the South

14th Amendment

Granted African-American male citizenship and equal protection under the law

19th Amendment

Granted women's suffrage

18th Amendment

Prohibited the sale, manufacture, and consumption of alcohol

17th Amendment

Direct, popular election of U.S. senators

16th Amendment

Allowed for a graduated, progressive income tax

Plessy v. Ferguson

Supreme Court Case in 1896 that allowed for "Separate but Equal" in public accommodations