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Progressive Era Flashcards

Progressive Era test in AP History. Important Acts, groups and people from the Progressive Era. Also with all Amendments ratified during the Era.

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989622416Progressive Movementreform effort, generally centered in urban areas and begun in the early 1900s, whose aims included returning control of the government to the people, restoring economic opportunities, and correcting injustices in American life.1
989622417Four main goals of Progressive Era1. Protect social welfare - correct injustices 2. Promoting moral movement 3. Create Economic reform - control big business 4. Foster efficiency2
989622418YMCASpiritual organization meant to provide healthy activities for young workers in the cities3
989622419Florence KelleyAn advocate for improving the lives of women and children. (Social Welfare). She was appointed chief inspector of factories in Illinois. She helped win passage of the Illinois factory act in 1893 which prohibited child labor and limited women's working hours.4
989622420Thorstein VeblinTheory of the Leisure Class, Conspicious Consumption5
989622421Prohibitionist groupsWCTU - Began in 1874 Anti-Saloon League - tried to pass laws forcing people to change6
989622422Economic panic1893. Americans questioned capitalism - criticized by Eugene V. Debs. Socialism started.7
989622423Ida M. Tarbellcriticized companies' cutthroat competition, exposed the Standard Oil Company and its ruthlessness, called the company the "mother of all trusts"8
989622424Louis D. BrandeisThis brilliant lawyer and later a justice of the Supreme court spoke and wrote widely about the "curse of bigness." He thought the government should help small businesses.9
989622425Frederick Winslow Taylortaylorism - Breaking things down into simple tasks, American mechanical engineer, who wanted to improve industrial efficiency. He is known as the father of scientific management, and was one of the first management consultants10
989622426Henry FordReduced workday to eight hours and paid five dollars a day11
989622427Robert M. LaFolleteGovernor of Wisconsin. Target railroad industry12
989622428Charles B. Aycock and James S. HoggGovernor of North Carolina and Texas - Protecting working children - health problems, stunted growth13
989622429National Child Labor committeefounded by Florence kelly which was organized to try and get lower labor hours for children14
989622430Keating-Owen ActProhibited the sale of interstate commerce goods produced by children15
989622431Meat Inspection ActLaw that authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to order meat inspections and condemn any meat product found unfit for human consumption.16
989622432Pure Food and Drug Actthe act that prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of impure of falsely labeled food and drugs17
989622433National Association of Colored Womenorganization formed to fight against discrimination and for women's rights18
989622434Susan B. Anthonysocial reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation19
989622435National Women Suffrage AssociationFormed in 1890 and united 2 major women's suffrage groups at that time discrimination, and recognition of human brotherhood20
989622436Mann-Elkins Act1910, gave right to prevent new rates if challenged in courts, communication now regulate directly by the Interstate Commerce Commission21
989622437Hepburn ActThis 1906 law used the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate the maximum charge that railroads to place on shipping goods.22
989622438Newlands Act1902 act authorizing federal funds from public land sales to pay for irrigation and land development projects, mainly in the dry Western states23
989622439Payne-Aldrich TariffSigned by Taft in March of 1909 in contrast to campaign promises. Was supposed to lower tariff rates but Senator Nelson N. Aldrich of Rhode Island put revisions that raised tariffs. This split the Repulican party into progressives (lower tariff) and conservatives (high tariff).24
989622440Federal Trade Commissionan independent agency of the United States fedeal government that maintains fair and free competition25
989622441Underwood ActAn early accomplishment of the Wilson administration, this law reduced the tariff rates of the Payne-Aldrich law of 1909 by about 15 percent. It also levied a graduated income tax to make up for the lost revenue.26
98962244216th Amendment1913. Legalized federal income tax, Amendment to the United States Constitution (1913) gave Congress the power to tax income.27
989622443Federal Reserve Acta 1913 law that set up a system of federal banks and gave government the power to control the money supply28
989622444Carrie Chapman CattSpoke powerfully in favor of suffrage, worked as a school principal and a reporter ., became head of the National American Woman Suffrage, an inspiried speaker and abrilliant organizer. Devised a detailed battle plan for fighting the war of suffrage.29
98962244519th amendmentgranted women right to vote. 1920., Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.30
989622446Social Gospel Movementa social reform movement that developed within religious institutions and sought to apply the teachings of Jesus directly to society31

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