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| 6730406439 | Progressivism | A loosely defined political movement of individuals and groups who hoped to bring about significant change in American social and political life. Its members included forward-looking businessmen, labor activists, members of female reform organizations, social scientists, and members of the middle class. | 0 | |
| 6730406440 | Teddy Roosevelt | This man started out as a Liberal Republican, and when William McKinley was assassinated, he took over. He was pro-conservation and pro-union. He eventually started the Progressive Party. He believed in walking softly and carrying a big stick. He intervened in the affairs of Latin American countries, believing it to be his duty. *SYNTHESIS- ANDREW JACKSON* | 1 | |
| 6730406441 | Square Deal | Teddy Roosevelt's program that attempted to deal with problems caused by economic consolidation by distinguishing between "good" and "bad" corporations | 2 | |
| 6730406442 | 1902 Anthractite Coal Strike | During a revolt at a coal mine, Teddy Roosevelt forced laborers and the owners of the mine to work out a deal, which resulted in the union receiving a wage increase and a shift to an 8 hour day. | 3 | |
| 6730406443 | Meat Inspection Act (1906) | Under Teddy Roosevelt, this act was passed to protect customers by investigating their food. This law was inspired by The Jungle | 4 | |
| 6730406444 | Trust-busting | Roosevelt attacked what he considered to be "bad trusts," (such as J.P Morgan's) a move that no previous president had dared to implement. | 5 | |
| 6730406445 | Conservation movement | Teddy Roosevelt set aside 17 million acres for parks, and he was aided by Gifford Pinchot | 6 | |
| 6730406446 | Bull Moose Party | The original name for the Progressive Party | 7 | |
| 6730406447 | Hepburn Act (1906) | An act passed to give the ICC the power to examine railroads' business records and to set reasonable rates | 8 | |
| 6730406448 | Muckrakers | Investigative journalists who exposed corrupt, illegal, and dangerous business practices. | 9 | |
| 6730406449 | Jacob Riis | The Progressive writer who investigated tenements. He took pictures of the living conditions in the city, and he wrote the book "How the Other Half Lives" (Muckraker) | 10 | |
| 6730406450 | Ida Tarbell | A woman who exposed Standard Oil's corrupt business. Though she was a sensationalist who wasn't always credible, she did manage to take down John D. Rockefeller | 11 | |
| 6730406451 | Robert La Follette | After serving as a Republican member of Congress for Wisconsin, he became convinced that railroad and lumber companies controlled state politics. When elected governor in 1900, he instituted a series of measures known as the Wisconsin Idea, including nominations of candidates for office through primary elections instead of city bosses, taxation of the corporate wealth, and state regulation of railroads and public utilities. | 12 | |
| 6730406452 | Social Gospel Movement | Using Christian principles to solve societies problems | 13 | |
| 6730406453 | Upton Sinclair, The Jungle | A Muckraker who wrote a book about the terrible working conditions in meat factories. He told of people falling into the vats and turning into lard, he told of how the meat was made, and many other horror stories. | 14 | |
| 6730406454 | Eugene V. Debs | He became the leader of the Socialist Party in the US and brought together socialists from around the country. He ran for president 5 times and never one, notably in 1912 | 15 | |
| 6730406455 | Socialist Party | Founded in 1901, this organization called for immediate reforms such as free college education, legislation to improve the condition of laborers, as, as an ultimate goal, democratic control over the economy through public ownership of railroads and factories | 16 | |
| 6730406456 | William Howard Taft | An early 20th century Republican president. He was much more conservative than Teddy Roosevelt. | 17 | |
| 6730406457 | National American Women Suffrage Association | A feminist organization that filed lawsuits and held rallies | 18 | |
| 6730406458 | Alice Paul — National Women's Party | A group of radical women who protested for suffrage and were arrested. While in prison, they staged a hunger strike, | 19 | |
| 6730406459 | Nineteenth Amendment | The constitutional amendment that officially gave women the right to vote | 20 | |
| 6730406460 | Triangle Shirtwaist Fire | 500 workers, mostly young Jewish and Italian immigrant women, worked on the top three floors of a ten-story building in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of NYC. When a fire started in the factory, the workers discovered that they had been locked in, so they perished. | 21 | |
| 6730406461 | Lochner v. New York (1905): | the Supreme Court ruled that a New York law setting maximum working hours for bakers was unconstitutional. The Court held that the Constitution prohibits states from interfering with most employment contracts because the right to buy and sell labor is a fundamental freedom protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. | 22 | |
| 6730406462 | Muller v. Oregon (1908) | In this case, Louis Brandeis employed "sociological jurisprudence," which was the use of statistics to show that women's labor should be regulated to protect women. This practice was very new for the court system | 23 | |
| 6730406463 | Anti-Saloon League | An organization that pressured politicians to pass temperance laws | 24 | |
| 6730406464 | Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) | Women who worked to close down saloons, which were havens for workingmen and immigrants | 25 | |
| 6730406465 | Henry Ford | utilized the assembly line to mass produce Model T cars | 26 | |
| 6730406466 | Fordism | The economic system based on mass production and mass consumption. | 27 | |
| 6730406467 | Recall | The means to remove officials from office by popular vote | 28 | |
| 6730406468 | Initiative | The ability of voters to propose legislation | 29 | |
| 6730406469 | Referendum | The ability of voters to vote directly on legislation | 30 | |
| 6730406470 | NAACP | An organization started by W.E.B DuBois and others who met at Niagara Falls in 1905 to organize against Jim Crow. This group used legal tools to fight discrimination | 31 | |
| 6730406471 | Woodrow Wilson | The first Democratic president after a long era of Republicans. | 32 | |
| 6730406472 | Sixteenth Amendment | The constitutional amendment that allowed Congress to enact a graduated income tax | 33 | |
| 6730406473 | Seventeenth Amendment | An amendment that stated that U.S. senators had to be chosen by popular vote rather than by state legislatures | 34 | |
| 6730406474 | Underwood-Simmons Tariff Bill | A bill that significantly reduced duties on imports (40%-20%) and, to make up for lost revenue, imposed a graduated income tax on the richest 5 percent of Americans. | 35 | |
| 6730406475 | Federal Reserve Act (1913) | A system of regional banks was created to control the money supply | 36 | |
| 6730406476 | Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914) | An act that exempted labor unions from antitrust laws and barred courts from issuing injunctions curtailing the right to strike | 37 | |
| 6730406477 | Keating-Owen Act (1916) | An act that outlawed child labor within the manufacturing of goods that were sold in interstate commerce | 38 | |
| 6730406478 | "Big Stick Diplomacy" | Sending the US into other countries to protect US interests (i.e. Panama, Nicaragua, etc.) | 39 | |
| 6730406479 | Panama Canal | A waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that made the journey between the American East and West Coasts 8,000 miles shorter. It was led by President Theodore Roosevelt, who negotiated the entire ordeal, from the uprising in Panama to the actual construction of the canal. | 40 | |
| 6730406480 | Roosevelt Corollary | A principle that said that the US had the right to exercise "an international police power" in the Western Hemisphere | 41 | |
| 6730406481 | Dollar Diplomacy | Taft's belief that economic investment and loans from American banks, rather than direct military intervention, was the best way to spread American influence | 42 | |
| 6730406482 | Moral Diplomacy | Wilson's idea that America has a right to judge how well another country is being run. Wilson uses it to intervene in Mexico and control the leaders. (Actually motivated by US oil interests) | 43 |
