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| 786676750 | Progressive Movement | a movement in the 1900s that fought against monopolies, corruption, inefficiency, and social injustice. wanted to use the government to improve human welfare. had roots in the Green Labor Party and the Populist Party. initiative, referendum, and recall. | |
| 786676751 | Henry Demarest Lloyd | (1894) exposed the corruption of the monopoly of the Standard Oil Company in his book Wealth Against Commonwealths | |
| 786676752 | Jacob A. Riis | author of How the Other Half Lives - a book about the New York slums and in inhabitants. | |
| 786676753 | muckrakers | This term applies to newspaper reporters and other writers who pointed out the social problems of the era of big business. The term was first given to them by Theodore Roosevelt. | |
| 786676754 | Lincoln Steffens | series of articles in McClure's called The Shame of the Cities. unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and the governemnt | |
| 786676755 | Ida M. Tarbell | launched an expose against Standard oil. | |
| 787518608 | initiative | voters can directly propose legislation | |
| 787518609 | referendum | people can vote on laws that affect them | |
| 787518610 | recalled | people can removed bad officials before their term is over. | |
| 787518611 | 17th amendment | (1913) provided for the direct election of senators | |
| 787518612 | Robert M. La Follette | A great debater and political leader who believed in libertarian reforms, he was a major leader of the Progressive movement from Wisconsin. | |
| 787518613 | Triangle Shirtwaist Company | (1911) fire at a shirt company in NYC that killed 146 workers mostly young women. led to the Muller vs. Oregon case. | |
| 787518614 | Muller vs. Oregon | (1908) attorney Louis D. Brandeis got the Supreme COurt to accept the constitutionality of law that protected women workers. | |
| 787518615 | Prohibition | the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment. a Progressive movement that included the Women's CHristain Temperance UNion, Anti-Saloon League and was out lawed witht eh 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act. these laws were unenforceable and caused a lot of organized crime. | |
| 787518616 | Square Deal for Labor | three C's: control of the corporation, consumer protection, and the conservation of the US's natural resources. affirmed by the Coal Strike of 1902 | |
| 787518617 | Coal Strike of 1902 | (1902) strike in the coal mines of Penn. workers wanted 20% pay increase and reduction of the workday to 9 hours. owners refused to negotiate and the lack of coal was effecting schools, and hospitals TR threatened to seize the mines and operate them with federal troops | |
| 787518618 | Department of Commerce and Labor | (1903) busting trusts, Bureau of Corporations - allowed to probe business engaged in interstate commerce. | |
| 787518619 | Elkins Act | (1903) gave the Interstate Commerce Commission more power to control railroads from giving preferences to certain customers | |
| 787518620 | William Howard Taft | 27th president of the U.S.; he angered progressives by moving cautiously toward reforms and by supporting the Payne-Aldrich Tariff; he lost Roosevelt's support and was defeated for a second term. busted more trusts than roosevelt. | |
| 787518621 | Upton Sinclair | wrote The Jungle - enlightened the American public to the horrors of the meatpacking industry and helped to force change. | |
| 787518622 | Meat Inspection Act | (1906) decreed that the preparation of meat shipped over state lines would be subjected to federal inspection form corral to can. | |
| 787518623 | Pure Food an Drug Act | prohibited interstate commerce in adulterated or misbranded food and drug. tried to prevent the adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals. | |
| 787518624 | Desert Land Act | (1877) Federal government sold arid land cheaply on the condition that the purchaser irrigate the thirsty soil within 3 years. provided little help. | |
| 787518625 | Forest Reserve Act | (1891) authorized the president to set aside land to be protected as national parks. | |
| 787518626 | Aldrich Vreeland Act | it authorized national banks to issue emergency currency, was the precursor of the Federal Reserve Act | |
| 787518627 | Federal Reserve Act | (1913), Sparked by the Panic of 1893 and 1907, the 1913 Federal Reserve Act created the Federal Reserve System, which issued paper money controlled by government banks. | |
| 787518628 | Dollar Diplomacy | Term used to describe the efforts of the US to further its foreign policy through use of economic power by gaurenteeing loans to foreign countries. encouraged by Taft | |
| 787518629 | Payne Aldrich Bill | bill placed on high tariffs on many imports (Taft betrayed the promise of his campaign to lower tariffs). ending up splitting the Republican Party. | |
| 787518630 | Election of 1912 | When the Republican's votes were split between Taft and Roosevelt, the Democrats stayed together and elected Wilson as President. The Republicans had no chance because they had two candidates running. |
