Progressive Movement Vocab
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- corruption
- a change for the worst
- spoils system
- the practice of winning candidates' rewarding their supporters with government jobs
- Populist Party
- farmers and laborers party
- Civil Service Commission
- government organization in charge of giving civil service exams
- yellow journalism
- exaggerated reporting by newspapers or magazines to attract readers
- reform
- change
- progressive
- moving forward
- Interstate Commerce Commission
- traded between states
- muckraker
- journalist who digs up dirt
- public interest
- best interest of the public
- primary (elections)
- election to find out who's going to be the candidates
- initiative (elections)
- the public's feedback on an issue
- referendum (elections)
- voting for a law
- recall
- a procedure for removing a public official from office by a vote of the people
- Wisconsin Idea
- governer Robert Laffollette went to the University of Wisconsin and asked how to change society for the better
- Thomas Nast
- famous political cartoonist
- Boss Tweed
- mayor of the NY that was corrupt and was head of Tamney Hall
- graduated income tax
- the more money you make, the more money you pay in taxes (16th amendment)
- tariff
- tax on imported goods
- suffrage
- the right to vote
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- fought for women's suffrage
- Seneca Falls Convention
- a women's right convention held in Seneca Falls, NY, in 1848
- suffragists
- people who fought for the right to vote
- Jane Addams
- Hull House - wanted to help the poor
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- spoke out for women's rights
- WCTU
- Women's Christian Temperence Union
- prohibition
- NO alcohol
- temperance
- SOME alcohol
- Carry Nation
- fought against alcohol
- conservation
- protection of wilderness areas and the planned management of natural resources for the common good
- Northern Securities Case
- JP Morgan was found guilty of violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
- Square Deal
- Theodore Roosevelt's program of progressive reforms designed to protect the common people against big business
- Bull Moose Party
- a name given to the Progressive Party, formed to support Theodore Roosevelt
- The Jungle
- a novel by Upton Sinclair the explained the disgusting conditions in the meat-packing industry
- NAACP
- the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - fought for full racial equality
- New Freedom
- Woodrow Wilson's domestic plans - wanted government to regulate businesses, not break them up. This would give every American the power to succeed.
- Gentlemaen's Agreement
- government of Japan agreed to limit Japanese emigration to the US
- civil service
- the nonmilitary branches of government