9 weeks 3 progressive movement Flashcards
Muckrackers
journalists who exposed corruption and problems in society
Ida Tarbell
wrote “ A History of Standard Oil” about illegal and unethical ways they did business
Upton Sinclair
Wrote “The Jungle” about the meatpacking industry, led to Meat Inspection Act
Suffrage Movement
women’s right to vote, achieved in 1920, leaders: Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Susan B Anthony
Jacob Riis
wrote “How the Other Half Lives” about poverty and urban poor
Plessy V. Ferguson
1896 separate but equal is constitutional
Temperance Movement
prohibit alcohol, religious movement, blamed problems on alcohol
Jim Crow Laws
segregated the races in the South
Niagra movement
WEB Dubois, early civil rights organization
NAACP
largest civil rights organization used lawsuits like Brown V. Board of Education
Marcus Garvey
Republican Progressive president, TR’s successor
Theodore Roosevelt
progressive president, Bull Moose, Rough Rider, Square Deal- Conservation, consumer protection, control corporations
William Howard Taft
Democrat Progressive president, President during WWI
Trust Busting
required ingredients to be listed on the label, end contaminated medicines
Woodrow Wilson
breaking up trust/ monopolies that limit competition, Roosevelt was a trustbuster but did not believe all trust were bad
Meat Inspection Act
under wilsons, controls nations monetary policy by raising and lowering interest rates, controls amount of money in circulation
Pure Food and Drug Act
allowed federal inspectors to investigate meatpacking plants, inspired by “The Jungle”
Federal Reserve System
controlled use of natural resources, TR was a conservationist
Conservation
expanded Interstate commerce commission and gave it the power to set maximum railroad rates
Hepburn act
created under wilson to investigate illegal business practices such as fraud and false advertising
Federal Trade Commission
strengthened sherman antitrust act, declared strikes/ labor unions legal
Clayton Anti-trust
strengthened sherman antitrust act, declared strikes/ labor unions legal