Chapter 17: The Progressive Era

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Progressive Movement
Reforms that aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct injustices in American Life.
Florence Kelley
A woman who became and advocate for improving the lives of women and children. Appointed chief inspector of factories for Illinois.
Illinois Factory Act
prohibited child labor and limited women's working hours; became a model for other states.
Prohibition
The banning of alcoholic beverages. Many reform movements (The temperance movement) pushed for this.
Muckrakers
Journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulation magazines during the 20th Century
Scientific management
studies to see just how quick each task could be performed.
Robert M. La Follete
Progressive Republican who in Wisconsin, led the way in regulating big business. He made the railroad industry a major target.
Initiative
a bill originated by the people rather than the lawmakers- on the ballot. (Marlboro High School pushing for cross-walks)
Referendum
A vote on the Initiative
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 ask for it.
Seventeenth AmendmentDirect election of senators.NACW(National Association of Colored Women) founded in 1986, by merging two earlier organizations.Susan B. AnthonyA leading proponent of women suffrage.SuffrageThe right to vote.Upton SinclairA muckraking journalist who did research for a novel in 1904 focusing on human condition in stockyards of Chicago.The JungleBook written by Sinclair focusing on the conditions of the meatpacking industry.Square DealRoosevelt Administration nameMeat Inspection ActDictated strict cleanliness for meatpackers and created the program of federal meat inspection.Pure food and Drug ActHalted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling.ConservationistsRoosevelt and Pinchot preserved areas and made them into National Parks.NAACPThe National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Wanted Equality for All Races.Gifford PinchotHead of U.S. Forest Service under President RooseveltWilliam Howard TaftRoosevelt handpicked his Secretary Of War, William Howard Taft to run for PresidentPayne-Aldrich TariffA compromise that only moderated the high rates of the Aldrich BillBull Moose PartyAnother name for the Progressive Party and name used for when Roosevelt ran again against Taft.Woodrow WilsonA reform governor of New Jersey who became President. (Democratic)Hepburn Act of 1906Strictly limited the distribution of free passes, a common form of bribery, Also ICC Power to set maximum railroad rates.Clayton Antitrust Act1914Sought to strengthen the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890Federal Trade Commission (FTC)Agency that was to investigate possible violations of regulatory states, to require periodic reports from corporations, and to put an end to unfair business practices.Carrie Chapman Cattcalled an emergency suffrage convention in September 1916, and invited President Wilson, who cautiously supported suffrage.Federal Reserve SystemBasis of the Nation's banking system.Nineteenth AmendmentGranted Women the Right to Vote in 1919.