Progressive Movement/Populism
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- referendum
- a process that allows citizens to approve or reject laws passed by the legistlature
- initiative
- a process where citizens could put an proposed law directly on the ballot in the next election
- driect primary
- an election where the citizens vote to select the nominees for upcoming elections
- inflation
- prices of goods go higher, but money is worth less. More money is circulation. Farmers favored inflation
- deflation
- Prices of goods go down, but money is worth more. Bankers and Businessmen favored deflation.
- socialists
- people that thought property should be controlled by the people, not by bosses
- populists
- A political group(like the democrats and republicans) that favored the business controlled by workers, not bosses. Also think that everything done should benefite the people as a whole
- Farmer's Alliance
- collective that proposed higher tariffs, but failed
- the grange
- protest group that helped farmers form cooperatives in 1866
- william jennings bryan
- democratic president nominee
- plessy v ferguson
- approves de jure segregation and seperated facilites
- Madam cj walker
- first AA millionaire and philantropist
- Henry George
- wrote book from rags to riches, and made single tax on lands
- Florence Kelley
- reformer for women
- Jame Addams
- social worker and reformer
- 16th amendment
- income tax
- 17th amendment
- direct election of senators in senate
- 18th amendment
- alcohol prohibition
- 19th amendment
- women's suffrage
- new nationalism
- Proposal for business regulation, welfare laws, workplace protection, income taxes, and voting reform
- injunctions
- court orders that could prohibit a certain activity
- home rule
- a system that gave cities a limited degree of self-rule
- free silver
- the unlimited coining of silver to increase the money supply