Ch 17: Progressive Era
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27 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Progressive Movement | aimed to return control of the government to the people through reform. |
| Florence Kelley | advocate for improving the lives of women and children |
| Prohibition | the banning of alcoholic beverages, moral improvement. |
| muckrakers | Journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulation. |
| scientific management | improving efficiency through the study of manufacturing tasks and processes |
| Robert M. La Follette | progressive Republican Governor of Wisconsin, regulated big business |
| initiative | a bill organized by the people instead of lawmakers. |
| referendum | a vote on an initiative, voted on by the people instead of the legislature. |
| recall | enabled voters to remove public officials from elected positions by forcing them to face another election before the end of their term if enough voters asked for it. |
| Seventeenth Amendment | Approved 1912, ratified 1913, allowed for the direct election of senators through primaries. |
| NACW | 1896, National Association of Colored Women founded by merging 2 earlier organizations. |
| Susan B. Anthony | a leader for women's right to vote |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| NAWSA | National Women Suffrage Association merging with another group to form the (National American Women Suffrage Association). |
| Upton Sinclair | muckraker, focused on human condition in the stockyards of Chicago. |
| The Jungle | book written by Sinclair about stockyards and bad conditions. |
| Theodore Roosevelt | POTUS, elected 1904, youngest president @ 42 years old. |
| Square Deal | used to describe the various progressive reforms sponsored by the Roosevelt administration. |
| Meat Inspection Act | detailed strict cleanliness requirements for meat packers. instituted process of federal meat inspection. |
| Pure Food and Drug act | halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling. |
| conservation | preserving some wilderness areas while other were developed for the common good. |
| NAACP | the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, aimed for full equality among the races. |
| Gifford Pinchot | head of the US Forest Service under Roosevelt |
| Payne-Aldrich Tariff | compromise that moderated the high rates of the Aldrich Bill. |
| William Howard Taft | ran in election of 1908, picked by Roosevelt. Ran against William Jennings Bryan, who was Democratic nominee. |
| Bull Moose Party | the new name for the Progressive Party. |
| Woodrow Wilson | 1912 Democratic candidate from New Jersy |
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