chapter 18 section 1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 progressivism | not a tightly organized movement with a specific set of reforms. It was a collection of different ideas and activities. |
| muckrackers | a group of crusading journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption |
| Ida Tarbell | published a series of articles critical to the Standard Oil Company |
| Lincoln Steffens | a McClure's reporter, reported on vote stealing and other corrupt practices of urban political machines |
| Jacob Riis | published the book Hoe the Other Half Lives and describe poverty, disease, and crime that afflicted many immigrant neighbors in NYC |
| Commission Plan | city's government would be divided into several departments, which would each be placed under the control of an expert commissioner |
| Robert La Follette | governor in Wisconsin and political reform first came to state level |
| party bosses | controlled the selection of convention delegates; they also controlled which candidates were chosen to run for office |
| direct primary | all party members could vote for a candidate to run in the general election |
| initiative | allowed a group of citizens to introduce legislation and required the legislature to vote on it |
| referendum | allowed proposed legislation to be submitted to the voters for approval |
| recall | allowed voters to demand a special election to remove an elected official from office before his or her term had expired |
| Alice Paul | Quaker social worker who headed NAWSA's congressional committee, had organized the Washington march -formed the National Women's Party, they picketed the White House, chained themselves and starved until they were arrested |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | became NAWSA's leader, developed a "winning plan" to mobilize the suffrage movement nation-wide in one final push to gain voting rights |
| Temperance movement | advocated the moderation of elimination of alcohol, emerged from these concerns/ mostly women led this movement |
| Women's Christian Temperance Union | group of temperance formed by women |
| Prohibition | laws banning the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol |
| socialism | idea that the government should own and operate industry for the community as a whole |
| Eugene Debs | Former American Railway Union leader who won nearly a million votes as the American Socialist Party candidate for president in 1912 |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| temperance movement | advocated the moderation or elimination of alcohol |
| Square Deal | Roosevelt's reform programs became known as this.. |
| Northern Securities | E.H Harriman, James J. Hill and J.P Morgan combined their railroads together and created the holding company called ___. |
| United Mine Workers | went on strike for the miners who dug anthracite, or hard coal. |
| arbitration | a settlement imposed by an outside party, presented to united mine workers union because of their strike. |
| Hepburn Act | an act intended to strengthen the Interstate Commerce Commission, an early effort to regulate the railroad industry but it lacked sufficient authority. |
| Upton Sinclair | published The Jungle, which featured appalling descriptions of conditions in the meatpacking industry. |
| Joseph G. Cannon | helped Taft with passing the new tariff, he appointed all committees and decides which bills they handled. |
| Payne-Aldrich Tariff | This cut tariffs hardly at all and actually raised them on some goods. |
| Richard Ballinger | a conservative corporate lawyer, who tried to make nearly a million acres of public forest and mineral reserves available for private developments. |
| syndicate | business group for personal profit |
| insubordination | disobedience |
| Progressive Party | ... |
| New Nationalism | ... |
| New Freedom | ... |
| income tax | direct tax on the earnings of individuals and corporations. |
| Federal Reserve Act | ... |
| Federal Trade Commission | they had the power to investigate companies and issue "cease and desist" orders against companies engaging in unfair trade practices. |
| unfair trade practices | practices that hurt their competition |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | believed that vote was essential to bring about an end to lynching and racial discrimination. |
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