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| 14390916576 | Progressivism | broad and loosely defined political movement that wanted to bring about social and political change one thing all progressives had in common: a belief that ideas of freedom must be infused with new meaning to adapt to a changing modern world; and that government should respond by attempting to right social and economic wrongs in response to: political corruption, economic inequality, women's rights, power of big business, workers rights, civil rights, poverty and vice | 0 | |
| 14390916577 | suffrage movement | gains support after 1900 national association grew to 2 million by 1917 Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, and Utah all gave women right to vote by 1900 Jeanette Rankin (R-MT) becomes the 1st Congresswomen in 1916 | 1 | |
| 14390916580 | temperance movement | movement to ban the sale and manufacture of alcohol in the U.S. began in the 1880s and gains momentum during the war years (1914-1918) Anti-Saloon League: anti-immigrant and foreign Frances Willard | 2 | |
| 14390917222 | Theodore Roosevelt | 1901-1909 first progressive president, republican becomes president after McKinley's assassination in 1901 youngest president at 42 Harvard graduate quick rise in politics: New York Assembly, Dakota cowboy, NY city police commissioner, Secretary of Navy, rough rider, Governor of New York, and Vice President | 3 | |
| 14390917991 | Roosevelt's Achievements | The three C's: conservation, control of corporations, and consumer protection trust buster: Northern Securities Company 1901 owned by JP Morgan support strikers: Coal Strikers 1902 Hepburn Act 1906 Antiquities Act 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act 1906 First president to support regulation of big business both for the consumers and the workers first U.S. president to win the Nobel peace prize 6 national parks 18 national monuments 150 national forests 51 bird sanctuaries 53 wildlife preserves national park service is created in 1916 | 4 | |
| 14390950115 | Hepburn Act | This 1906 law used the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate the maximum charge that railroads to place on shipping goods. | 5 | |
| 14390951007 | Antiquities Act | passed in 1906, which allows the president to protect areas of scientific or historical interest on federal lands as national monuments | 6 | |
| 14390951613 | Pure Food and Drug Act | 1906 - Forbade the manufacture or sale of mislabeled or adulterated food or drugs, it gave the government broad powers to ensure the safety and efficacy of drugs in order to abolish the "patent" drug trade. Still in existence as the FDA. | 7 | |
| 14390918687 | Woodrow Wilson | only president with PhD 1st president to hold regular press conferences and make in-person addresses to Congress strongly idealistic, got right to work with his Progressive agenda | 8 | |
| 14390961368 | 16th Amendment | Allows the federal government to collect income tax 1913 | 9 | |
| 14390962807 | 17th Amendment | Direct election of senators 1913 | 10 | |
| 14390918688 | 18th Amendment | Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages 1920 | 11 | |
| 14390919221 | 19th Amendment | Gave women the right to vote 1920 | 12 | |
| 14390968613 | Clayton Act | Act that minimally restricted the use of injunctions against labor and legalized peaceful strikes, picketing, and boycotts. strengthened the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1914) | 13 | |
| 14390970539 | Adamson Act | 1916 law that established 8 hour workday for railroad workers in order to avert a national strike | 14 | |
| 14390971506 | Federal Trade Commission (FTC) | a federal agency empowered to prevent persons or corporations from using unfair methods of competition in commerce outlaws trade that harms consumers 1914 | 15 | |
| 14390973476 | Progressive Successes by early 20th century | gained national political recognition idea that environment, not heredity alone, determines human behavior gains momentum poverty was beginning to be seen as a social ill not an individual failing development of the idea of scientific management and professionals starts to gain momentum passage of 18th and 19th amendments represent a major success for many activists | 16 |
