Progressive Era

Progressive Era

aimed to restore economic opportunists and correct injustices from Gilded Age

Muckraker

Journalists who exposed corruption in politics, big business & society

Trust

multiple companies that link up to reduce competition(monopoly)

Settlement House

community centers that provided assistance to people in community especially immigrants

Ida B. Wells

African American journalist. published pics of lynching in the South & activist for women's rights

Booker T Washington

African American progressive who supported segregation and felt African American should get a vocational trade

W E B DuBois

African American who helped form NAACP; he fought for social equality & immediate rights for African Americans

direct primary

direct vote by the people local elections

Initiative

people originate a bill and gov approves
A procedure by which voters can propose a law or a constitutional amendment.

Referendum

gov originate law people vote
a legislative act is referred for final approval to a popular vote by the electorate

recall

remove elected official from office

Susan B Anthony

social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation

Suffrage

right to vote

Upton Sinclair

muckraker who wrote The Jungle, exposing the meat packing industry which led to laws to protect consumers

Meat Inspection Act

law to protect consumers from unsanitary meat

Pure Food and Drug Act

FDA government policy that protects consumer and requires food & drug products to have labels & expiration dates

NAACP

Interracial organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation, discrimination and to achieve political and civil rights for African Americans.

19th Ammendment

Gave women the right to vote

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

March 1911 fire in New York factory that trapped young women workers inside locked exit doors; led to passage of safety & building laws

Prohibition

A total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol

17th Amendment

Established the direct election of senators (instead of being chosen by state legislatures)

16th Amendment

Allows the federal government to collect income tax

18th Amendment

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages

Populist Party

third political party representing mainly farmers who favored coinage of silver graduated income tax & regulation of railroads shipping charges

William Jennings Bryan

speech promoting the idea of changing the exchange rate of silver to gold; Ran for President as Populist Party candidate

Jane Addams and Hull House

Social reformer who founded Hull House, a settlement home in Chicago and help immigrants assimilate into American society.

Theodore Roosevelt

26th president, known for: conservationism, trust-busting, safe food regulations, "Square Deal," Panama Canal

Pendleton Civil Service Act

created a federal civil service so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit rather than patronage.

Jacob Riis

muckraker with his novel "How The Other Half Lives" exposed the poor conditions of tenements in NYC

Interstate Commerce Act

1887 law passed to regulate rates charged by railroad and other interstate businesses

National Park Service

created by Roosevelt to conserve land

Ida Tarbell

A leading muckraker and magazine editor, she exposed the corruption of the oil industry with her 1904 work A History of Standard Oil.