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| 3682818830 | Florence Kelly | the nations most ardent advocate of improved conditions for working class women and children | 0 | |
| 3682821168 | interest-group politics | a group of political leaders who have similar interests | 1 | |
| 3682822519 | muckrakers | People who fed political taste for scandal and sensation by exposing social, economic, and political wrongs | 2 | |
| 3682824976 | direct primaries and non-partisan elections | a way to nominate candidates that prevented fraud and bribery led by party loyalties | 3 | |
| 3682827748 | initiative, referendum, recall | A set of laws that held officeholders responsible for their actions - enabled voters to propose new laws - enabled voters to accept or reject new laws - allowed voters to remove officers and judges | 4 | |
| 3682831019 | the municipal voters league and the US chamber of commerce | thought that running schools, hospitals and local government like efficient businesses would help stabilize society | 5 | |
| 3682834506 | the YWCA and the woman's christian temperance union | woman led organization that aided growing numbers of woman for many causes besides abstinence from drinking | 6 | |
| 3682836985 | Alfred E. Smith, Robert F. Wagner, David I. Walsh and Edward F. Dunne | a group of elected progressive legislators who had trained in the trenches of political machines and supported reform at the state and national levels, opposed reforms like prohibition, Sunday closing laws, civil service, and nonpartisan elections | 7 | |
| 3682838463 | debs | the american railway union organizer who drew nearly 100.000 voters in the 1900 presidential election | 8 | |
| 3682840595 | "old guard" republicans | defenders of free enterprise that opposed many regulatory measures out of self interest and fear that government programs would undermine the individual initiative like Rockefeller and Morgan | 9 | |
| 3682842215 | Robert M. La Follette | A progressive governor who initiated a multipronged reform program including direct primaries and more equitable taxes | 10 | |
| 3682846197 | Southern Progressivism | the south led the way in political reform introducing business regulations and other reforms that rivaled la follette, essentially urban and middle class, tainted by racial bitterness by excluding blacks that were valued voters | 11 | |
| 3682847598 | national child labor committee | pressured every state to set a minimum age for employment and prohibited employers from working children fro more than 8 or 10 hours a day | 12 | |
| 3682851627 | the American association for Old age security | pressured states to establish old age pensions | 13 | |
| 3682853293 | white slavery | a practice where international gangs were kidnapping young women and forcing them into prostitution | 14 | |
| 3682855364 | The social evil in Chicago | a report published in 1911 that underscored the poverty, ignorance and desperation that drove women into prostitution | 15 | |
| 3682858151 | the Mann Act | prohibiting interstate and international transportation of a woman for immoral purposes | 16 | |
| 3682859359 | G. Stanley Hall and John Dewey | asserted that modern education ought to prepare children differently | 17 | |
| 3682860900 | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr | a supreme court judge that led the attack on the traditional view of laws as universal and unchanging | 18 | |
| 3682862563 | Louis D Brandeis | a lawyer that insisted that judges' opinions be based on factual, scientifically gathered information about social realities | 19 | |
| 3682864990 | Muller v. Oregon | In this 1908 Supreme Court case, Louis D. Brandeis persuaded the judges to accept the constitutionality of laws protecting women workers. Though the reasoning was sexist and discriminatory, it was still hailed as a triumph by progressives. | 20 | |
| 3682864991 | Lochner v. New York | In this Supreme Court case, the judges invalidated a New York law that provided for a ten-hour workday for bakers. | 21 | |
| 3682866265 | Holden v. Hardy | Court upheld a law regulating working hours of miners because long hours would increase the chance of injury | 22 | |
| 3682870036 | 16th amendment | This amendment allowed the federal government to collect an income tax | 23 | |
| 3682870038 | 17th amendment | This amendment called for the direct election of senators | 24 | |
| 3682870903 | 18th amendment | This amendment outlawed alcohol in the US | 25 | |
| 3682871839 | 19th amendment | This amendment that gave women the right to vote | 26 | |
| 3682875533 | Richard T. Ely | argued that poverty and impersonality resulting from industrialization required intervention by the united efforts of church, state, and science | 27 | |
| 3682876993 | Lester Ward, Alboin Small, and Edward ross | added that citizens should actively plan to cure social illis rather than passively wait for problems to solve themselves | 28 | |
| 3682878002 | Charles A Beard | believed that the constitution was a flexible document amenable to growth and change | 29 | |
| 3682879959 | The National Consumers League | joined physicians and social scientists to bring about some of the most far reaching progressive reforms | 30 | |
| 3682880989 | The social gospel | a movement that countered the brutality of competitive capitalism by interjecting christian churches into practical wordly matter such as improving the environment of the poor | 31 | |
| 3682882036 | eugenics | an invidious way of applying science to social organization | 32 | |
| 3682883458 | the women movement | a movement that challenged established social assumptions about women | 33 | |
| 3682885314 | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | declared that domesticity and female innocence were obsolete and attacking the male monopoly on economic opportunity | 34 | |
| 3682888395 | Margaret Sanger | the leader of the feminist supported birth control movement | 35 | |
| 3682890552 | Theodore Roosevelt | concurred with progressive that a small, uninvolved government would not suffice in the industrial era | 36 | |
| 3682891821 | the northern securities company | a huge railroad company that went under prosecution for trusts | 37 | |
| 3682893195 | the hepburn act | gave the interstate commerce commission more authority to set railroad freight and storage freights - allowed the courts to overturn them though | 38 | |
| 3682894245 | the jungle | A Fictionalized expose of Chicago meatpacking plants | 39 | |
| 3682895697 | the meat inspection act | reinforced the principle of government regulation, requiring that government agents monitor the quality of processed meats | 40 | |
| 3682897370 | the pure food and drug act | prohibited dangerously adulterated foods but also addressed abuses in the patent medicine industry | 41 | |
| 3682900442 | the coal strike of 1902 | strike over an 8 hour workday and higher wages president employed progressive tactics of investigation and arbitration | 42 | |
| 3682901346 | the newlands reclamation act | controlled sale of irrigated federal land in the west | 43 | |
| 3682904463 | Gifford Pinchot | advocated scientific management of the nations woodlands to protect the land and water from overuse by timbercutters, farmers, and herders | 44 | |
| 3682906417 | the panic of 1907 | financial panic caused by reckless speculation forced some new york banks to close and prevented people from with drawing money | 45 | |
| 3682907722 | William Howard Taft | won the 1908 presidential election against william jennings bryan | 46 | |
| 3682908846 | the Payne aldrich tariff | a bill that had positive provisions and understood that more extreme cuts were not politically possible | 47 | |
| 3682912675 | The manns-elkins act of 1910 | bolstered the regulatory powers of the ICC and supported labor reforms | 48 | |
| 3682914191 | The national progressive republican league | rallied behind robert lafollette for president in 1912 | 49 | |
| 3682916290 | The Progressive Party | The popular name of the "People's Party," formed in the 1890's as a coalition of Midwest farm groups, socialists, and labor organizations, such as the American Federation of Labor. It attacked monopolies, and wanted other reforms, such as bimetallism, transportation regulation, the 8-hour work day, and income tax. | 50 | |
| 3682917748 | Woodrow Wilson | offered a more idealistic scheme of the "New freedom" based on the ideas of progressive lawyer | 51 | |
| 3682921390 | New Nationalism | the ideals of a new sense of american pride and nationalism | 52 | |
| 3682923668 | New Freedom | the ideals of the new sense of freedom among the american people | 53 | |
| 3682925585 | the presidential election of 1912 | Woodrow Wilson beatout Roosevelt | 54 | |
| 3682928782 | the clayton anti-trust act | outlawed monopolistic practices such as price discrimination and interlocking directorates | 55 | |
| 3682931187 | the federal trade commission | would investigate companies and issue cease and desist orders against unfair trade practices | 56 | |
| 3682932871 | The federal reserve act of 1913 | established the nations first central banking system since 1836 when the second bank of the united states expired | 57 | |
| 3682934070 | the underwood tariff | reduced or eliminated tariffs and encouraged imports | 58 | |
| 3682935072 | the adamson act of 1916 | mandated an 8 hour work day and time and a half overtime pay for railroad laborers | 59 | |
| 3682935990 | the presidential election of 1916 | Woodrow Wilson beat out Roosevelt again for a second time | 60 |
