The Progressive Era

KKK

Lynching (hangings)- terrorized Southern blacks, and the ________ experienced a significant resurgence after 1915.

Womens suffrage movement

________ started during the 1830s and 1840s finally met with success in 1920 with the passage of the 19th amendment.

Hepburn Act

________ (1906)- gave the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to regulate railroad rates.

NAACP

________- In 1910, progressive whites and blacks formed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the following year the National League was founded.

Birth of a Nation

________- the 1915 movie, which is widely considered the first American "blockbuster ..

big businesses

Muckraking (investigative)- journalists "investigated almost every corner of American life: government, labor, unions, ________, Wall Street, health care, the food industry, child labor, womens rights, prostitution, ghetto living, and life insurance.

Woodrow Wilson

________- with the republican vote split between Roosevelt and Taft, ________, an (arguably more conservative) democrat, was elected president in 1912.

Professional Class

________- an important element of progressivism.

federal government

16th amendent- gave congress the power to impose an income tax, thus providing an important tool that would be used later on to expand the role and size of the ________.

amendment

17th ________- provided for the direct election of U.S.

Meat Inspection Act

________- fixed some of the problems with the production of unsafe meat that Upton Sinclair had written about in his famous book: The Jungle.

Pure Food

________ and Drug Act (which was the first law regulating other food and drugs) in 1906.

Progressive Era the period

________ beginning in the late 1890s and ending in 1920.

Sherman Antitrust Act

________ (1890)- finding that Northern Securities was in violation of the recently enacted act, the supreme court agreed with Roosevelt and order National Securities be broken up.

Labor

Organized ________ (unions)- working conditions elsewhere (particularly the nations coal mines and steel mills) were also unsafe; this, combined with long hours and low wages, led to the growth of the OL.

Temperance movement

________- to prohibit alcohol consumption that had also started during tje 1830s also succeeded during the progressive era.

William H Taft

________- since Roosevelt did not run for reelection in 1908, the Reps nominated his secretary of War, Taft, to succeed him.

Labor Unions

________ fought for reasonable work hours, safer workplaces, and higher wages and benefits.

Birth control movement

________- during the Progressive era that the BCM was born; woman such as Margaret Sanger called for easy access to contraceptives so that women could control their reproduction.

Muckraking(investigative)- journalists "investigated almost every corner of American life

government, labor, unions, big businesses, Wall Street, health care, the food industry, child labor, womens rights, prostitution, ghetto living, and life insurance

monopolies (a business completely controlling one product or marketplace)

one of the features of industrialism and capitalism of the late 19th century had been the consolidation of important businesses (such as steel, railroads, and oil into the hands of a few huge monopolies

Meat Inspection Act- fixed some of the problems with the production of unsafe meat that Upton Sinclair had written about in his famous book

The Jungle

Triangle Shirtwaist Company

In 1911, a fire at the TSC in NY focused national attention to this problem

Birth control movement

during the Progressive era that the BCM was born; woman such as Margaret Sanger called for easy access to contraceptives so that women could control their reproduction