7 Flashcards
Tenements
• Slum apartments in cities
Graft
Political corruption to gain money
*Reform
To change for the better
Populism
More power to ordinary people
Progressivism
Fixing society with government change
Americanization
Immigrants learning to be
“American”
Public Education
Government run schools
Environmental regulations
Laws about how environment’s
treated
Conservation
Protecting and preserving the
environment
Suffrage
The right to vote
Susan B. Anthony
Fought for women’s rights
especially voting
19th Amendment
Granted women the right to vote
Sherman Antitrust Act
Anti-monopoly law from 1890
Clayton Antitrust Act
Stopped Monopolies merging &
helped labor unions
Muckrakers
Journalists who exposed wrongdoing
Theodore Roosevelt
Progressive President: fought for
conservation
Federal Reserve System
Central Bank created to protect
banks from failing
Sixteenth Amendment
Allowed income tax