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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| 1069475110 | Progressive Movement | reform 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. | |
| 1069475111 | Four main goals of Progressive Era | 1. Protect social welfare - correct injustices 2. Promoting moral movement 3. Create Economic reform - control big business 4. Foster efficiency | |
| 1069475112 | YMCA | Spiritual organization meant to provide healthy activities for young workers in the cities | |
| 1069475113 | Florence Kelley | An 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. | |
| 1069475114 | Thorstein Veblin | Theory of the Leisure Class, Conspicious Consumption | |
| 1069475115 | Prohibitionist groups | WCTU - Began in 1874 Anti-Saloon League - tried to pass laws forcing people to change | |
| 1069475116 | Economic panic | 1893. Americans questioned capitalism - criticized by Eugene V. Debs. Socialism started. | |
| 1069475117 | Ida M. Tarbell | criticized companies' cutthroat competition, exposed the Standard Oil Company and its ruthlessness, called the company the "mother of all trusts" | |
| 1069475118 | Louis D. Brandeis | This 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. | |
| 1069475119 | Frederick Winslow Taylor | taylorism - 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 consultants | |
| 1069475120 | Henry Ford | Reduced workday to eight hours and paid five dollars a day | |
| 1069475121 | Robert M. LaFollete | Governor of Wisconsin. Target railroad industry | |
| 1069475122 | Charles B. Aycock and James S. Hogg | Governor of North Carolina and Texas - Protecting working children - health problems, stunted growth | |
| 1069475123 | National Child Labor committee | founded by Florence kelly which was organized to try and get lower labor hours for children | |
| 1069475124 | Keating-Owen Act | Prohibited the sale of interstate commerce goods produced by children | |
| 1069475125 | Meat Inspection Act | Law that authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to order meat inspections and condemn any meat product found unfit for human consumption. | |
| 1069475126 | Pure Food and Drug Act | the act that prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of impure of falsely labeled food and drugs | |
| 1069475127 | National Association of Colored Women | organization formed to fight against discrimination and for women's rights | |
| 1069475128 | Susan B. Anthony | social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation | |
| 1069475129 | National Women Suffrage Association | Formed in 1890 and united 2 major women's suffrage groups at that time discrimination, and recognition of human brotherhood | |
| 1069475130 | Mann-Elkins Act | 1910, gave right to prevent new rates if challenged in courts, communication now regulate directly by the Interstate Commerce Commission | |
| 1069475131 | Hepburn Act | This 1906 law used the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate the maximum charge that railroads to place on shipping goods. | |
| 1069475132 | Newlands Act | 1902 act authorizing federal funds from public land sales to pay for irrigation and land development projects, mainly in the dry Western states | |
| 1069475133 | Payne-Aldrich Tariff | Signed 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). | |
| 1069475134 | Federal Trade Commission | an independent agency of the United States fedeal government that maintains fair and free competition | |
| 1069475135 | Underwood Act | An 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. | |
| 1069475136 | 16th Amendment | 1913. Legalized federal income tax, Amendment to the United States Constitution (1913) gave Congress the power to tax income. | |
| 1069475137 | Federal Reserve Act | a 1913 law that set up a system of federal banks and gave government the power to control the money supply | |
| 1069475138 | Carrie Chapman Catt | Spoke 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. | |
| 1069475139 | 19th amendment | granted women right to vote. 1920., Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections. | |
| 1069475140 | Social Gospel Movement | a social reform movement that developed within religious institutions and sought to apply the teachings of Jesus directly to society |
