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| 764595320 | progressive movement | -to use the government as an agency of human welfare -to cleanse capitolism -to increase democracy | 0 | |
| 764595323 | Progressive roots in.... | Populist and Greenback parties | 1 | |
| 764595330 | muckrakers | Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public | 2 | |
| 764595332 | trust | a big business or monoply | 3 | |
| 764595344 | Charles Evans Hughes | prominent politician and went after gas and oil co.s | 4 | |
| 764595352 | Jacob Riis | muckraker; wrote how the other half lives | 5 | |
| 764595415 | Lincoln Steffans | unmasked corrupt alliances between big buisnesses and local gov'ts | 6 | |
| 764595416 | Ida Tarbell | Published a series of articles critical of the Standard Oil Company | 7 | |
| 764595417 | David g. Phillips | boldly charged that 75 of the 90 senators represented the railroads and trusts, not the people. | 8 | |
| 764596024 | Ray Stannard Baker | wrote about the literacy of blacks | 9 | |
| 764596027 | Thomas W. Lawson | exposed corrupt amassing of American fortunes | 10 | |
| 764596028 | Harvey W. Wiley | exposed the frauds that sold patent medicines by experimenting on himself | 11 | |
| 764596036 | 1913 17th amendment | direct election of senators | 12 | |
| 764596253 | Robert LaFollet | governer of Wisconsin; returned power to the people | 13 | |
| 764596254 | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory | location of deadly fire; key to federal regulations of saeftey for workers | 14 | |
| 764596255 | Louis Brandies | In Muller v. Oregon, he was a Massachusetts attorney who persuaded the Supreme Court to accept constitutionality of laws protecting women workers by presenting evidence of bad effects of factory labor on weaker woman bodies. | 15 | |
| 764596257 | Effect of the Muller v. Oregon | women were not hired for many jobs; they went to men | 16 | |
| 764596260 | Womens Christian Temperance Union | Womens groups opposed the drinking of alcohol and helped with probition | 17 | |
| 764596261 | Frances E. Willard | became leader of the Womens Christian Temperance Union. She worked to educate people about the evils of alcohol. She urged laws banning the sale of liquor. Also worked to outlaw saloons as step towards strengthening democracy. | 18 | |
| 764596263 | Anthracite Coal Mine Strike | coal miners wanted 9 hr work day and a 20% pay raise; Threatened to take the mines with the military and use them with the military running them; first time gov't sided with the people and not the big businesses. | 19 | |
| 764596266 | Upton Sinclair | muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. | 20 | |
| 686090120 | Elkins Act | railroad legislation aimed primarily at rebate evil; heavy fines could be imposed on railroads and shippers | 21 | |
| 748971064 | Hepburn Act | Free passes were restricted; ICC expanded and included express companies, sleeping car companies and pipelines | 22 | |
| 701918208 | Meat Inspection Act | federal inspection of meat | 23 | |
| 637317687 | Upton Sinclair | "The Jungle"; led to reforms in meat packing industry | 24 | |
| 260111362 | Aldrich Vreeland Act | authorized national banks to issue emergency currency backed by various kinds of collateral | 25 | |
| 989063269 | Henry Demarest Lloyd | "Wealth Against Commonwealth"; attacked Standard Oil Company | 26 | |
| 989063274 | Thorstein Veblen | "The Theory of the Leisure Class" attack on predatory wealth; attack on "making money for money's sake rather than for real needs | 27 | |
| 609029064 | Theodore Dreiser | batter promoters and profiteers; "the Financier" "The Titan" | 28 | |
| 609029065 | socialists | fought against social injustice; registered strength at the ballot box - many people in house and senate | 29 | |
| 501178407 | initiative | voter could directly propose legislation themselves; bypasses the boss bought state legislatures | 30 | |
| 501178408 | referendum | place laws on the ballot for final approval by the people | 31 | |
| 730417705 | recall | enable voters to remove faithless elected officials | 32 | |
| 562065121 | Australian ballot | made ballot bribery less feasible; "secret ballot" | 33 | |
| 534096555 | Hiram Johnson | Californian governor; broke the dominant grip of the Southern Pacific railroad on California politics; set up his own political machine | 34 | |
| 819766783 | square deal | control of corporations, consumer protection, and conservation of natural resources; roosevelt's take of public reform | 35 | |
| 819766786 | Northern Securities Case | Attack on railroad holding company by JP Morgan and James J Hill; Roosevelt challenged the virtual monopoly on the northwestern railroad | 36 | |
| 676169892 | Pure Food and Drug Act | prevent the adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals | 37 | |
| 676169899 | Gifford Pinchot | conservationist; head of the federal division of forestry | 38 | |
| 676169917 | Newlands Act | authorized Washington to collect money from the sale of public lands in the western states and used these funds for irrigation projects | 39 | |
| 999133900 | John Muir | naturalist who believed the Hetch Hetchy Valley should be conserved with no meddling by humans | 40 | |
| 884498201 | panic of 1907 | financial blamed Roosevelt; "boat rocking" techniques caused this; paved the way for fiscal reforms | 41 | |
| 884498202 | dollar diplomacy | Taft's approach to foreign policy; encouraged Wall Street to sluice their surplus dollars into foreign areas of strategic concern to the US; would strengthen US defense and foreign policies | 42 | |
| 711789979 | Payne Aldrich Tariff | moderately reductive bill with hundreds of tariff revisions tacked on (sea moss, canary seed); split the republican party | 43 | |
| 711789982 | Progressives v the Old Guard | Roosevelt vs Taft (Split Republican Party) | 44 |
