U.S. History Civil War to Present Chp 10
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- Term for early 20th Century movements to reform government, promote social welfare, and create economic reform
- Progressivism
- Term for a writer who exposed corruption in American Society
- muckraker
- System to allow voters, rather than party conventions, to choose candidates to run for public office
- Direct primary
- To vote an official out of office
- Recall
- A law passed in 1890 that made it illegal for corporations to gain control of industries by forming Trusts
- Sherman Anti-Trust Act
- First progressive US president who believed that governments purpose was to ensure people a "square deal"
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Term for controlling the use of America's natural resources - The creation of national parks, for example
- Conservation
- Upton Sinclair's novel about a Chicago meat packing plant; it prompted Roosevelt to pass the 1906 Meat Inspection Act.
- The Jungle
- 1908 president, mighty pursuer of antitrust suits , appointed to the Supreme Court in 1921
- William Howard Taft
- Amendment to the US Constitution, ratified in 1913, that gave congress the power to create income taxes.
- 16th Amendment
- Amendment to the US Constitution, ratified in 1913, that provided for direct election of US Senators.
- 17th Amendment
- 1912-1920 progressive president, worked to regulate trusts, empower labor, and reform the US Banking system.
- Woodrow Wilson
- The 1914 law that protected labor union activities and took measures against monopolies.
- Clayton Anti-trust Act
- Law Passed in 1913 that improved the nations banking system and instituted a flexible currency system
- Federal Reserve Act
- Prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, also called the Prohibition Amendment
- 18th Amendment
- An organizer of the Women's suffrage movement and National American Women Suffrage Association President
- Susan B Anthony
- Suffragist who argued that the US had to give women the vote because they were supporting the war effort.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- The amendment to the US Constitution, ratified in 1920, that gave women full voting rights
- 19th Amendment