Topic 11A: The Progressive Era Vocabulary

Progressivism

Social reform through government action

Muckraker

Photograph journalist exposing public corruption

social gospel

christian ethics applied to society

settlement house

community centers aiding poor immigrants

Direct Primary

Voters choose party candidates directly

Seventeenth Amendment

Direct election of US Senators

Temperance Movement

Campaign to limit alcohol consumption

Suffrage

The right to vote

Nineteenth Amendment

Right to vote for a women

Americanization

Assimilating immigrants into American culture

Federal Reserve Act

Created central US banking system

New freedom

Wilson’s plan breaking up monopolies

Progressive Party

Third party favoring social reform

Square Deal

Roosevelt’s fair domestic policy program

New Nationalism

Roosevelt’s platform regulating big business

Sixteenth Amendment

Established federal income tax

Initiative

Voters propose laws by petition