The progressive era
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 What were some problems in the gilded age? | patronage in the federal goverment, curruption in the local government, big businesses |
| What is patronage in the federal government? | politician s in the federal government including the presidentawarded government jobs to their polotician supporters |
| When was president James A Garfeilld assasined? By whom? | 1881 an angry office seeker |
| What was some curruption in local government? | political bosses controled large city governments and demanded payoffs |
| What was the problem with big businesses? | corporations had too much control over small businesses and the consumers; monopolies were comon in the railraod and oil industries |
| What were some refroms? | comgress established the civil service comission; news papers and magazines published stories about corruption in local businesses; congressbegan to regulate business activity |
| What is the civil servies comission? | a government agency created by the pendleton act to fill federal jobs on the basis of merit; exams were given for all federal jons except elected officials and those serving in the military |
| How did congress begin to regulate business activity? | they created the ICC; passage of the sherman anti trust act which banned the formation of trusts and monopolies in the US |
| What were progressives concerned about? | corruption, unfair business practices, poor working conditionspoor living conditions and consumer protection |
| What is trust busting? | breaking up trusts that had broken the law |
| What was the square deal? | theodore roosevelts campaign promise that all groups have an opportunity to suceeede |
| What were some things passed in the square deal? | pure food and drug act;; meat inspectin act; conservation |
| What is the pure food and drug act? | a 1906 law that requires food and drug makers to list ingredients on the packeges |
| What was the meat inspection act? | a 1906 law that allows officials federalofficials to inspect meat packing plants and guarantee that meat is being prepared under sanitary conditions |
| What is conservation? | protection of natural resources and setting land aside for national parks and forests |
| What were willliam howard tafts actions supporting progressive reform? | continuing of trust busting; regualation of railroads |
| What were william howard tafts actions aganist progressive reform? | he raised tariff rates; blacking efforts at conservation |
| What is new freedom? | president wilsons program to break up trusts and restore American competition; lowering tariffs; federal reserve act; federal trade comission |
| What was the federal reserve act? | a 1913 law that set up a system of federal banks and gave government the power to control the money supply |
| What was the federal trade comission? | government agency created in 1914 to ensure fair competition |
| Wilsons efforts at progressive reform were slowed after... | war broke out in Europe in 1914 |
| Who were some leading sufferagists? | Susaon B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chatman Catt, Alice Paul |
| What did Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found? When? | the National Women Sufferage Association; 1869 |
| What was the 19th amendnemt? | it gave women the right to votethroughtout the US |
| What was the Labor Reform? | when many women campaigned to end social evils such as poor conditions in factories and child labor |
| What was the temperance movement? | a campaign aganist alcohol consumption |
| What was the 18th amendment? | made it illegal to sell alcoholic beverages anywhere in the US |
| What was the education reform? | more college and professional training for women |
| What is the book HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES about? | provided shoking images of city slum life |
| What is the HISTORY OF STANDARD OIL about? | revealed unfair prcatices of John D Rockefellar |
| What is the JUNGLE about? | revealed grusome details about the slaughter houses and meat packing plants in Chicago |
| What is the SHAME OF THE CITIES about? | exposed corruption in large city governments |
| What was the wisconsin idea? | introduce reforms such as lowering raiload rates, creating a graduated income tax and expending rights to women |
| Who is Susan B Anthony? | a spokes person for womens rights, abolition and temperance |
| Who is Elizabth Cady Stanton? | organizer of the Seneca Fall Convention (1848) |
| In the South the African Americans lost their right to... | their political rights |
| In the North the African Americans faced... | descrimination |
| What did the south do to the African Americans? | passed Jim crow laws which led to segrigation on trains, in schools and in public places; during the depressoin on 1893 the whites took their anger out on the Af. Am. by lynching |
| What did the North do to the African Americans? | they were refused housing in white areas; they were only hired for low paying jobs |
| What college did Booker T. Washington found? | Tuskegee Institute |
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