The American Pagent Chapter 28 Flashcards
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| 5860244877 | purpose of the progressive movement | -to use the government as an agency of human welfare -to cleanse capitolism -to increase democracy | 0 | |
| 5860244878 | Progressive roots in.... | Populist and Greenback parties | 1 | |
| 5860244879 | socialist and feminists start to gain... | strength; enter the progressive movement | 2 | |
| 5860244880 | muckrakers | Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public | 3 | |
| 5860244881 | trust | a big business or monoply | 4 | |
| 5860244882 | Charles Evans Hughes | prominent politician and went after gas and oil co.s | 5 | |
| 5860244883 | Jacob Riis | muckraker; wrote how the other half lives | 6 | |
| 5860244884 | Lincoln Steffans | unmasked corrupt alliances between big buisnesses and local gov'ts | 7 | |
| 5860244885 | Ida Tarbell | Published a series of articles critical of the Standard Oil Company | 8 | |
| 5860244886 | David g. Phillips | boldly charged that 75 of the 90 senators represented the railroads and trusts, not the people. | 9 | |
| 5860244887 | Ray Stannard Baker | wrote about the literacy of blacks | 10 | |
| 5860244888 | Thomas W. Lawson | exposed corrupt amassing of American fortunes | 11 | |
| 5860244889 | Harvey W. Wiley | exposed the frauds that sold patent medicines by experimenting on himself | 12 | |
| 5860244890 | saying about muckrakers | < | 13 | |
| 5860244891 | muckrakers belief | the cure to the ills of american democracy you needed more democracy | 14 | |
| 5860244892 | plutocracy | gov't for the rich people | 15 | |
| 5860244893 | feelings of the middle class | squished by the rich and the poor | 16 | |
| 5860244894 | 1913 17th amendment | direct election of senators | 17 | |
| 5860244895 | Secret Ballot | for elections and direct elections of senators | 18 | |
| 5860244896 | city manager system | designed to take politics out of city gov't | 19 | |
| 5860244897 | urban reformers tackled | slumlords; juvenile deliquency; and prostitution | 20 | |
| 5860244898 | Robert LaFollet | governer of Wisconsin; returned power to the people | 21 | |
| 5860244899 | Triangle Shirtwiaest Factory | location of deadly fire; key to federal regulations of saeftey for workers | 22 | |
| 5860244900 | 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. | 23 | |
| 5860244901 | Effect of the Muller v. Oregon | women were not hired for many jobs; they went to men | 24 | |
| 5860244902 | 18th Amendment in 1919 | prohibited the sale and use of alcohol | 25 | |
| 5860244903 | Womens groups opposed the drinking of alcohol and helped with probition | Womens Christian Temperance Union | 26 | |
| 5860244904 | 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. | 27 | |
| 5860244905 | the three C's (sq. deal for labor) | Control of the corperations Consumer protection Conservation of the US natural resources | 28 | |
| 5860244906 | 1902 Coal Mine Strike (what happened) | coal miners wanted 9 hr work day and a 20% pay raise | 29 | |
| 5860244907 | 1902 Coal Mine Strike (what did TR do) | Threatened to take the mines with the military and use them with the military running them. | 30 | |
| 5860244908 | 1902 Coal Mine Strike (importance) | first time gov't sided with the people and not the big buisnesses. | 31 | |
| 5860244909 | 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. | 32 |