PRogressive era

Jacob Riis

author of "How the Other Half Lives"; focused on slum conditions in NYC; crises in housing, education, and poverty along w/ euro immigration

Ida B Wells

AA journalist; battled sexism, racism, and violence; wrote abt AA lynching in the South; wrongful accusations

Ida Tarbell

author of "History of Standard Oil"; aggressive techniques of Standard Oil; Standard Oil was found in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act

Lincoln Steffins

author of "Shame of the Cities"; wrote abt corrupt gov't, social justice, and human rights

Upton Sinclair

author of "The Jungle"; exposed unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry

Teddy Roosevelt

president; square deal: felt gov't should try to balance the needs of all the groups in american society/used authority to break up businesses, preserved lands, supported other reforms

William Taft

president after TR; initiated 80 antitrust suits, submitted 2 amendments to the states, est postal savings system, and used the ICC to set RR rates/ lost progressive support by supporting the Payne-Aldrich Tariff and Land Conservation programs est by TR

Woodrow Wilson

president after WT; "new freedom": attacked the triple wall of privilege trusts, tariffs, and high finance

Booker T Washington

Favored accommodation: Blacks shouls work hard, educate themselves, and earn the rights they wanted (Tuskegee institute); born a slave

WEB Du Bois

demanded equality for AA; an end to segregation and discrimination, and economic and education equality

Susan B Anthony

organized marches and protests, delivered speeches and lobbied lawmakers

Carrie C Catt

temperance movement; launched the National Progressive Republican League, an organization devoted to passing progressive laws such as primary election, direct elections of senators, and referendums

16th amendment

graduated income tax

17th amendment

direct election of senators

18th amendment

Prohibition of alcohol

19th amendment

Women's suffrage

Food & Drug Act/ Administration

prevent false claims and list ingredients on products

Sherman Antitrust Act/ Clayton Antitrust Act

power to charge and break up businesses that violated competition practices and protected workers' unions/rights

Elkins Act

power to regulate railroad companies

Hepburn Act

power to regulate railroad companies

Newlands Reclamation Act

Aimed to make dry land in the west suitable for farming and irrigation projects

Federal Reserve Act

regulates the supply of money in the US

Federal trade Act/ Commission

protects consumers from business fraud

Lynching

hanging(typically AA's during this time)

Muckraker

investigative journalists who search for and expose real of alleged corruption and scandal especially in politics

Recall

allowed voters to demand a special-called election to remove an elected official from office before his/her term ends

Referendum

allowed laws passed by the state legislatures to be submitted to voters for approval or rejection

initiative

allowed a group of citizens to propose new laws, by petition, and required the state legislatures to vote on it

sufferage

the right to vote

Temperance/prohibition

reformers hoped that ending alcohol would reduce corruption, crime, assimilate immigrants

conservation

prevention of wasteful use of resource

intervention

The act of intervening

Segregation/Plessy v Ferguson

AA case; Separate but equal is legal

direct primary

allows all party members to vote for a candidate to run in the general election