Progressive Politics

Trust Busting

breaking up large business monopolies (trusts)

Muckraking

Writers that write about real stories but over exaggerated the stories, making it more extreme than they appeared.

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

law that made it illegal for companies to become monopolies or unfairly control markets.

17th Amendment

people vote directly for senators instead of state legislatures picking them.

18th Amendment

Prohibition, banning the sale and consumption of Alcohol

19th Amendment

Women get the right to vote

Labor Unions - Organizations formed by workers to protect their rights and improve working conditions

What conditions were labor unions fighting for? - Higher wages, Shorter hours, and Better working conditions

Yellow Dog Contract - businesses made workers pledge not to join unions

Black List - had names of union workers and organizers, businesses wouldn’t hire these people

Jane Addams - a reformer who created Hull House to help poor immigrants and improve living conditions in cities.

Hull House - a settlement house in Chicago that helped poor immigrants by offering education, job training, and social services

Temperance - a movement to reduce or ban alcohol because people believed it was causing major social problems.

Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) - a women’s group that fought to ban alcohol and also supported broader social reforms like women’s voting rights.

Carrie Nation - Temperance worker who became famous for destroying saloons with rocks and bricks and eventually hatchets mostly around Kansas

Prohibition - Ban on alcohol in the U.S.

Why did prohibition fail in the United States? - People still wanted alcohol illegal drinking continued and crimes increased

Populism - Political movement of farmers and working class

Plessy vs. Ferguson - Supreme Court case that legalized racial segregation in the United States by upholding the "separate but equal"

NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Fought segregation and racism

W.E.B. DuBois - Leader of NAACP, immediate equality and education for Black Americans