Progressivism (Chapter 16)

progressivism

reform movement that addressed social problems that industrialization created

muckrakers

journalists who wrote about horrors they witnessed + "raked up" or exposed the filthy society

Ida B. Tarbell

wrote about Standard Oil Company, revealed how Rockefeller crushed competition

Tenement Act

law forced landlords to install lighting in public hallways + provide at least 1 toilet for 2 families

National Association for Advancement of Colored People(NAACP)

Ida Well-Barnett, DuBois,

fight for rights of African Americans

American Federation of Labor(AFL)

only skilled workers as members

direct primary

voters select a parties candidate for public office

17th amendment

voters elect senators directly

initiative

allows citizens to propose new laws

referendum

allows citizens to vote on a proposed/existing law

recall

allows voters to remove elected official from office

Prohibition Movement

ban on making, selling, and distributing alcoholic beverages

Women's Christian Temperance Union(WCTU)

organized crusade against alcohol (w/ Anti-Saloon League)

Carry Nation

smashed saloons + urged others to do the same

18th amendment

prohibited manufacture + sale + distribution of alcoholic beverages

National Association of Colored Women(NACW)

by Ida B. Wells-Barnett + Margaret Washington

-campaigned against poverty + segregation + lynchings + persistence of Jim Crow laws

National Women Suffrage Association(NWSA)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton + Susan B. Anthony

-campaigned for amendment for women to vote

First state to grant vote to women

Wyoming

National American Women Suffrage Association(NAWSA)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton = leader

Susan B. Anthony= president(1892-1900)

-won right to vote in 1920

bully pulpit

TR saw White House as this

Square Deal

TR 1904 campaign slogan

Upton Sinclair

"The Jungle" - unsanitary conditions at meatpacking plants

Meat Inspection Act

required federal inspection of meat shipped across state lines

Pure Food Drug Act

forbade manufacture/transportation of food + medicine containing harmful ingredients + ingredient labels

16th amendment

granted congress power to levy taxes based on income

New Freedom

Woodrow Wilson

-tariff reductions + banking reform + stronger anti-trust legislation

Clayton Anti-trust Act

prohibited companies from buying stock of competing companies to form a monopoly

Alice Paul

formed National Women's Party(NWP) w/ Lucy Burns

Carrie Chapman Catt

NAWSA; new strategy to campaign on both state + fed levels

19th amendment

1920; gave women full voting rights