Populist, Progressives And Reforms Flashcards

1091155411	Political machine	Offered services to voters/businesses in exchange for political or financial support	0
1091155412	What were the roles of political bosses	Controlled access to municipal jobs and business licenses, influenced courts, used power for improving economy(parks, sewer, and water works).	1
1091155413	What were the bosses motto	Money	2
1091155414	Who gave the bosses more votes	Immigrations	3
1091155415	Graft	The illegal use of political influence for personal gain	4
1091155416	The Tweed Ring Scandal	A group of corrupt politicians that gained money from fraud;started a national isse	5
1091155417	Populism	Mostly Midwestern small farmers trying to get voices herd that wanted reform and a stable society	6
1091155418	Plan #1	Society getting better by gov regulation of railroads, banks and industrial monopolies	7
1091155419	Tarrif	Tax on imported goods	8
1091155420	Graduated income tax	As wealth went up you pay more	9
1091155421	Negative Characteristics of Populists	Racist Anti Jewish-Semetic Anti-eastern Anti-urban Anti-intellectual	10
1091155422	Panic of 1893	A financial crisis	11
1091155423	Causes of panic	Bank failures, low agricultural prices, depression in Europe, high tarrifs, railroad bankruptcies from too much expansion, and stock market collapsed	12
1091155424	Bryan	In presidential election in 1896, symbol of rural, middle class america	13
1091155425	McKinley	A Traditional conservative who advocates gold and big businesses who ends up winning	14
1091155426	Election of 1896	Populists nominate: Bryan	15
1091155427	Progressives	Political and social reformers of the late 1800s and early 1900s that were working to bring about the "progress" in society	16
1091155428	Muckrakers	Journalists who looked at the bad parts of the economy (ex. Tom Nast)	17
1091155429	Riis	Famous for taking pics of the poor	18
1091155430	Upton Sinclair	He was the supporter of F.D.A who was a socialist that got passed by legislation	19
1091155431	Goals of the Progressives	Protect social warfare, promote moral improvement, create economic reform, foster efficiency	20
1091155432	Urban Reforms	Welfare services: playgrounds, public baths, parks, work relief programs; reformers and political machines work together to improve urban life	21
1091155433	17th amendment	Popular vote of senators	22
1091155434	Initiative	Citizens can directly propose new laws with certain # of signs	23
1091155435	Referendum	Gave voters ability to remove public officials from office	24
1091155436	Workplace Reforms	Labor dept., fire checks, accident insurance were setup, minimum wage, child labor abolished	25
1091155437	Roosevelt's Square Deal	intervened in a united mine strike and got workers 10% pay raise and lower hours	26
1091155438	PFDA & Meat Inspection Act	Accurate labeling and strict sanitary conditions	27
1091155439	Sherman Antitrust Act	Strictly enforced by inspection acts	28
1091155440	Clayton Antitrust Act	Added buying other stick and exempted labor unions from antitrust acts	29
1091155441	Roosevelt	A progressive that helped improve the economy by setting up national parks and reserved forest and water lands	30
1091155442	Taft	Won the republican presidential nomination of the election of 1912	31
1091155445	16th amendment	Income tax	32
1091155446	18th	Illegal to make sell or import liquor	33
1091155447	19th amendment	Women's voting rights in 1920	34
1091155448	NAACP	The national association for advancement of colored people- aimed for full equality	35
1091155449	New Nationalism	Where the fed gov would exert it's power for the welfare of the people	36
1091155450	How was the Progressive Party formed?	It was a group branched off from the Republican Progressives because they refused to vote	37
1091155451	Bull Moose Party Platform	Women suffrage Minimum wage Regulation of bus. End of child labor 8 hour work day Workmans compensation Senators election	38
1091155452	Four-way Pres Election of 1912	Roosevelt- progressive Wilson- new freedom Debs- socialist Taft- conservatism	39
1091155453	Election winner of 1912	Wilson	40
1091155454	Probs post- Industrialization	Poverty in inner cities, bad working conditions, political corruption, women=no rights, child labor, Jim crow	41
1091155455	Federal Reserve System created	12 districts that each had it's own central bank in each district	42
1091155456	All F.D.A. served	Private banks	43
1091155457	Wilson's Second Term promise	Keep us out of WWI	44
1091155458	Progressive (did/didn't) support AA and civil rights	Didn't	45
1091155459	Lower Class Jobs of women	Gourmet workers Offices, stores and if lucky, classroom teachers	46
1091155460	Middle Class and Upper Class Jobs of women	Take care of fam Teachers	47
1091155461	AA Jobs of women	Farmers Cookers	48
1091155462	Immigrant Jobs of women	Piecework	49
1091155463	Educational opportunities did what?	Increased	50
1091155464	3 strategies of woman suffragists	A. Take states one at a time B. Pursue court cases C. National constitution	51
1091155465	All women wanted	The same rights as men had(ex. to vote)	52