history unit test

december 4

Carrie Chapman Catt

a suffragist & peace activist who helped secure women the right to vote

alice paul

led the charge for womans suffrage & equal rights in the us by organizing marches, white house protest, & rallies

Theodore Roosevelt

26th president, first progressive president.

Woodrow Wilson

a leader of the progressive movement, he was the 28th president

upton sinclair (muckraker)

muckraker, writer of many works from the United states about meat packing industry in America

Julia Lathrop

First chief of the Children's Berau

Lincoln Steffens (muckraker)

a journalist who sought out & exposed corruption & made it known through writing

niagra movement

founded by WEB DuBois, oppose racial segregation & disenfranchisement

meat inspection act of 1906

organization tht checks the meat & requirements tht the meat companies hv to hv, manufactured claimed their products & accomplished everything

coal strike of 1902

140,000 members of the united mine workers union worked off their coal mines in eastern Pennsylvania

Florence Kelley

political activist who defended the rights of working women & children. helped organize the NAACP.

Jacob Riis (muckraker)

the first in the US to conceive of photographic images as instruments for social change. he was a journalist & social reformer who publicized the crisis of housing, education, & poverty

ida Tarbell (muckraker)

american writer, investigative journalist, tried to expose the Standard Oil & Rockefellers' brutal business practices

Antiquities Act of 1906

was the first law to provide general legal protection of cultural & natural resources or scientific interests of federal lands

new lands reclamation act of 1902

Enables the federal government to raise money for irrigation projects to expand agriculture in the West

Bureau of Corporations

created to investigate business practices and government antitrust suits

Jane Addams

a peace activist & a leader to the settlement house movement in americas, she founded the womens international league for peace & freedom

Thomas Nast (muckraker)

german american caricaturist & editorial cartoonist who exposed the corruption of the tweed ring

New Nationalism- 1912

1. control private properties
2. federal child labor ban
3. womens suffrage
4. labor rights

Pure food & drug act

halted the sale of contaminated food & medicine & called for the truth in labelling, it didn't ban harmful product but it allowed the public to know what they were putting in their bodies

Plessy V Fergeson

upheld the constitutionality of the racial segregation under the "separate but equal doctrine

Muller V oregon

upheld an Oregon law limiting the workday for female wage earners to ten hours

The National Municipal league

united various city reform groups throughout the country

17th amendment

the senate of the us shall be composed of two senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years

19th amendment’s

granted women the right to vote

Northern securities

one of the first monopolies broken up, under roosevelt

what was Wilson's political base?

democratic party

wilsons progressive income tax

those with higher incomes should pay progressively higher tax rates (The more you make the more they take)

wilsons underwood act of 1913

Reduced Tarrifts 40-25%

inheritance taxes

a state tax tht you pay when you receive money or property from the estate of a deceased person

federal reserve act

created regional banks along with a board tht set interest rates

Clayton antitrust act

Declared strikes, boycotts, and labor union's legal

federal trade commision

(at Woodrow Wilsons request) Investigate companies for anticompetitive practices

wilsons new freedoms

wilson argued changing the economic conditions demanded new & aggressive government policies

the payne-aldrich tarrif act

lowered rates on 650 tariffs, raised 220 tariffs & left 1150 untouched

tafts connection to progressivism

he moved foward with progressive reforms

Roosevelt’s Square Deal

conservation of natural rescourses, control of corporations & consumer protection

elkins act

prohibited railroad companies from giving rebates to businesses tht ship large quantities of goods & giving power to those business to artifically lower shipping prices

booker t washington

educator & reformer, cultivated the spread of vocational schools & colleges for african americans across the south

W.E.B DuBois

cofounded the NAACP and the Niagra Movement to help secure legal equality for minority citizens

Taft

27th president, progressive president

who won the election of 1912

wilson defeated taft & roosevelt

progressive party

formed under the leadership of Teddy Roosevelt in 1912, these reformers believed such policies such civil service reforms, food safety laws, & increased political rights for women & us workers

tulsa massacare

a white mob attacked residents home & businesses in the predominantly black community of greenwood, in Tusla Oklahoma

ida b wells (muckraker)

led anti-lynching crusades in the united states in the 18902

NAACP

founded by black & white reformers, racial equality through legislation, court cases, & protests

JP Morgan

which robber baron bought out Carnegie steel to create U.S. steel- one of the largest monopolies in history

standard oil

What was America’s FIRST Monopoly. Hint:
Exxon and Chevron were created when it was
broken up.

John D Rockefeller

This Robber Baron became the world's richest
man and the first American worth a billion
dollars?

monopolizing industries

engaging in unethical business practices

paying little heed to their customers

What is one characteristic of a Robber Barons- in
terms of business practices?

roosevelt felt tht the republican party was not progressive enough

Why did Roosevelt create the Progressive Party
“Bull Moose Party”?

bully pulpit

This term describes a person using the power of
the presidency to get Progressive reforms passed.

white southerners

major part of wilsons political base

Robert la follette

This Progressive Reformer from Wisconsin is
known for the Wisconsin Idea- Using professors
from state colleges to help create regulations

This was the settlement house that Jane Addams
set up in Chicago to help poor immigrants.

hull house