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| 297551863 | "Progressives" | reformers for monopoly, corruption, social injustice,. Wants to strengthen state power, use government as an agency of human welfare | |
| 297551864 | Henry Demarest Lloyd | exposed the corruption of the monopoly of the Standard Oil Company with his book Wealth Against Commonwealth, muckraker | |
| 297551865 | Thorstein Veblen | criticized the new rich (those who made money from the trusts) in The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899). | |
| 297551866 | Jacob A. Riis | wrote How the Other Half Lives about the horrible conditions in NY slums | |
| 297551867 | Theodore Dreiser | Wrote Sister Carrie which traces the downward journey of an innocent country girl who is corrupted by urban pleasures and becomes a prostitute. | |
| 297551868 | Socialists | people who support community ownership of property and the sharing of all profits, mostly immigrants in the early 1900s | |
| 297551869 | The "social gospel" | A movement regarding poverty using Christian principles (education, no child labor, proactive organizations) | |
| 297551870 | "Muckrakers" | Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the publi for funn and profits | |
| 297551871 | Lincoln Steffens | criticized alliance b/w big business and government | |
| 297551872 | Ida Tarbell | Published a series of articles critical of the Standard Oil Company | |
| 297551873 | Thomas W. Lawson | laid bare the practices of his accomplices with the stock market in "frenzied finance." | |
| 297551874 | David G. Phillips | published "The Treason of the Senate" in Cosmopolitan, said that 75 out of the 90 senators represented railroads and trusts rather than the people | |
| 297551875 | Ray Stannard Baker | wrote Following the Color Line about the illiteracy of blacks | |
| 297551876 | "Initiative" | voters could directly propose legislation | |
| 297551877 | "Referendum" | place laws on the ballot for final approval by the people | |
| 297551878 | "Recall" | enable voters to remove faithless elected officials | |
| 297551879 | "Australian" ballot | process of voting anonoumously | |
| 297551880 | Seventeenth Amendment (1913) | instituted the direct election of senators by the people of each state. | |
| 297551881 | City manager system (Galveston, 1901) | commission would manage urban affairs | |
| 297551882 | Robert M. LaFollette | progressive Wisconsin governor and senator and presidential candidate, took control away from corporations, regulated public utilities | |
| 297551883 | Hiram Johnson | fought for railroad regulation in California helped to break the dominant grip of the Southern Pacific Railroad on California politics in 1910 | |
| 297551884 | Charles Evans Hughes | gov of NY, investigator of malpractices by gas and insurance companies | |
| 297551885 | Women's club movement | gave confidence and taught skills to middle-class women; literary clubs that educated women in "poem and prose" but eventually became a meeting hall for social issues and current events | |
| 297551886 | Florence Kelly (National Consumer's League) | progressive labor reforms for women and children in work place | |
| 297551887 | Louis D. Brandeis | a brilliant lawyer and leader of the Supreme Court faught against poor working conditions for women and children (Muller v Oregon) | |
| 297551888 | Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire (1911) | factory workers were trapped in a fire due to violations of the fire code, protests and reformed followed | |
| 297551889 | Frances Willard and WCTU | leader of the womens christian temporance movement largest in world | |
| 297551890 | "Dry" laws | states passed these which controlled, restricted or abolished alcohol | |
| 297551891 | Square Deal (three C's) | Three C's: -control of corporations -consumer protection -conservation of natural resources | |
| 297551892 | Coal Strike (1902) | Strike by the United Coal Workers of America, threatening to shut down the winter coal supply. Theodore Roosevelt intervened federally, and resolved the dispute, supported the strike and helped create compromise | |
| 297551893 | Department of Commerce and Labor (1903) | The Bureau of Corporations helped break the stronghold of monopolies. | |
| 297551894 | Elkins Act (1903) | law that prohibited railroad rebates and punished those who accepted them | |
| 297551895 | Hepburn Act (1906) | A railroad legislation that prohibited free passes on railroads due to their hint of bribery. | |
| 297551896 | Northern Securities Case (1904) | The Northern Securities Company was a holding company . The company was forced to dissolve after they were challenged by Roosevelt, his first trust-bust. | |
| 297551897 | J. P. Morgan and James J. Hill | empire of Northwestern RR, financial titan | |
| 297551898 | Upton Sinclair | author who wrote a book about the horrors of food productions in 1906 - wrote The Jungle | |
| 297551899 | Meat Inspection and Pure Food and Drug Acts (1906) | made food and medicine that went interstate subject to federal inspection. made food and med safer | |
| 297551900 | "Conservation" movement | political, social and scientific movement to protect natural resources | |
| 297551901 | Gifford Pinchot | head of federal Division of Forestry, contributed to Roosevelt's natural conservation efforts | |
| 297551902 | Newlands Act (1902) | a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of the American West. | |
| 297551903 | John Muir (1913) | famed naturalist | |
| 297551904 | Hetch Hetchy (1913) | built dam in SanFrancisco | |
| 297551905 | Panic of 1907 | short but sharp drop in wall street, people blamed Roosevelt and his trustbusting | |
| 297551906 | William Howard Taft | Successor of Roosevelt; Different views than Teddy; part of political corruption; Passed Sixteenth Amendment | |
| 297551907 | Eugene V. Debs | socialist candidate for election of 1908, won popular vote | |
| 297551908 | "Dollar Diplomacy" | President Taft's policy of linking American business interests to diplomatic interests abroad | |
| 297551909 | Payne-Aldrich Tariff (1909) | Higher tariff by Taft, who had said before that he would lower the tariff rates. |
