Progressive Era / American History
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- Florence Kelley
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*Progressive-era reformer
*campaigned for child-labor laws - Robert M. LaFollette
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*Progressive-era reform governor of Wisconsin
*targeted railroads - 16th Amendment
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Income Tax
Legalized a direct tax on income and profit, not dependent on population distribution - 17th Amendment
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Direct election of Senators
US Senators will be elected by the people, not by state legislatures - 18th Amendment
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Prohibition
The manufacture, transportation, or sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited - 19th Amendment
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Woman suffrage
Women gained the right to vote equal to men - Suffrage
- the right to vote
- Upton Sinclair
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*Muckracker
*The Jungle (1906), publicized abuses in meat-packing industry - Muckrackers
- Writer who exposes wrong doing
- prohibition
- making the sale or use of alcohol illegal
- Progressive Movement
- Socila reform movement in the early 20th century
- Initiative
- A way for people to propose laws directly
- referendum
- a way for people to approve changes in laws by a vote
- recall
- a vote on whether to remove a public official from office
- Susan B. Anthony
- Leader of the woman suffrage movement, who helped to define the movement's goals and beliefs and to lead its actions
- Thedore Roosevelt
- President from 1901 - 1909
- Square Deal
- President's Roosevelt's program of progressive reforms
- The Jungle
- Novel by Upton Sinclair describing meatpacking
- Meat Inspection Act
- Law reforming meatpacking conditions, 1906
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- Law to stop the sale of unclean food and drugs, 1906
- conservation
- The planned management of natural resources
- NAACP
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded in 1909 to work for racial equality
- William Taft
- President from 1909-1913, successor to Roosevelt
- Gifford Pinchot
- Head of U.S. Forest Service under Roosevelt, who believed that it was possible to make use of natural resources while conserving them
- Bull Moose Party
- Nickname for the new Progressive Party, which was formed to support Roosevelt in the election of 1912
- Woodrow Wilson
- Winner of the 1912 presidential election
- Clayton Anti-trust Act
- Law that weakened monopolies and upheld the rights of unions and farm organizations
- Federal Trade Commissions (FTC)
- A federal agency set up in 1914 to investigate businesses to help enforce the laws
- Federal Reserve System
- National banking system begun in 1913
- Assembly Line
- An efficient way of putting together a product in which each worker does a different specific task
- integration
- mixing racial groups
- settlement house
- a center where poor people can get help