Ch. 28 Progressive Movement Flashcards
Movement against monopolies, corruption, and social injustice
Progressivism
Man who wrote Wealth Against Commonwealth to expose oil corruption
Henry Demarest Lloyd
Journalists and writers who exposed business and government corruption
Muckrakers
Founder of the Hull House and helped immigrants settle in America
Jane Addams
Man who wrote Shame of the Cities, that revealed big business and government alliances
Lincoln Steffans
Revealed corrupted Standard Oil practices
Ida M. Tarbell
Middle-class workers scammed by trusts and cheap immigration labor
Progressives
Allowed voting to be done in secert to avoid forced votes by bosses
Secert Ballot
Experts assigned to manage urban affairs
City-Manager System
Gained control of trusts to give power to the people
Robert M. Follete
New York governor who exposed gas and insurance malpractice
Charles Evans Hughes
Main demographic of the progressive movement and child labor
Women
Affirmed laws that protected women workers
Muller vs. Oregon
Strike for 20% increase pay and and 9 hour workday, which Teddy Roosevelt somewhat helped, achieving a 10% pay increase
Anthracite Coal Mine Strike
Institution that was part of the Bureau of Corporations, that busted a lot of trusts
Department of Commerce and Labor
Ability for civilians to kick out politicians
Recall
Fined railroads for rebates
Elkins Act
Act that forced meat to be federally inspected
Meat Inspection Act
Set areas of land to be protected as national parks
Forest Reserve Act of 1891
Allowed banks to back currency with collateral, which led to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913
Aldrich-Vreeland Act
President after the 1908 election, who continued many of Roosevelt’s policies
William Howard Taft
Call for Americans to invest in other countries
Dollar Diplomacy
