Chapter 6 Vocab
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- Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
- In 1911 this fire broke out in NY killing hundreds of people, mostly women, who were trapped behind the doors
- Meat Inspection Act
- law reforming meatpacking conditions
- Direct Primary
- a primary where voters directly select the candidates who will run for office
- Nineteenth Amendment
- amendment to the constitution giving women the right to vote
- Carry Nation
- United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)
- NAWSA
- National American Woman Suffrage Association; founded in 1890 to help women win the right to vote
- Progressives
- reformers who worked to stop unfair practices by businesses and improve the way grovernment works
- Alice Paul
- United States feminist
- Florence Kelly
- social reformer
- Jacob Riis
- The author who told about how people lived in tenements in the poor cities.
- Susan B. Anthony
- leader of woman suffrage movement, who helped to define the movement's goals and beliefs and to lead its actions
- William Howard Taft
- 27th President of the United States and later chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1857-1930)
- Wisconsin Idea
- Package of reform ideas advocated by LaFollette that included Initiative, Recall, Referendum
- Eighteenth Amendment
- an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920
- Initiative
- political reform that allowed citizens to introduce a bill into the legislature and required embers to take a vote on it
- Labor Unions
- Organizations of workers who, together,put pressure on the employers.
- AFL
- a federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955
- Robert M. La Follette
- progressive wisconsin govenor whose adgenda of reforms was known as the wisconsin idea
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- law that outlawed trusts
- 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.
- The Jungle
- Muckraking book by Upton Sinclair that detailed the gross innards of the meatpacking industry
- Sixteenth Amendment
- government's right to collect income taxes from individuals
- Lincoln Steffens
- United States journalist who exposes in 1906 started an era of muckraking journalism
- Newlands Reclamation Act
- allowed the federal government to create irrigation projects to make dry lands productive.
- Square Deal
- fair treatment
- Recall
- the act of removing an official by petition
- New Freedom
- Woodrow Wilson's domestic policy that, promoted antitrust modification, tariff revision, and reform in banking and currency matters.
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- This law requires manufacturers to tell the truth about their food and drug products.
- Prohibition
- a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
- Upton Sinclair
- United States writer whose novels argued for social reform (1878-1968)
- NAACP
- worked to gain equal rights for African Americans
- Referendum
- a legislative act is referred for final approval to a popular vote by the electorate
- Jane Addams
- founded Hull House
- Clayton Antitrust Act
- law that weakened monopolies and upheld the rights of unions and farm organizations
- Frances Willard
- Worked for women's suffrage as President of the Women's Temperance Union
- How the other half lives
- book written by Jacob Riis speaking of the poverty in the Progressive Age
- Seventeenth Amendment
- allowed americans to vote directly for U.S senators
- Women's Christian Temperance Movement
- an organization led by Frances Willard, an organized against alcohol
- Woodrow Wilson
- 28th President of the United States
- Muckrakers
- Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public
- Federal Reserve Act
- law that created a central fund from which banks could borrow to prevent collapse during a financial panic, put banking system under eyes of gov
- WEB Du Bois
- believed that African Americans should strive for full rights immediatly;founded the NAACP
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- president of NAWSA, who led the campaign for woman suffrage during Wilson's administration
- Theodore Roosevelt
- 26th President of the United States