Ch.7 The Progressive Era Flashcards
Temperance
Not drinking alcohol yourself and preaching about it
Muckraker
Reporters who exposed dirt or corruption
Referendum
Voters could accept or reject measures that the state legislature enacted
Recall
Allowed voters to remove incompetent elected officials
Initiative
Voters could place an issue on the ballots in a state election
Sherman antitrust act
The first federal law to control trusts and monopolies
Ida Tarbell
Exposed the oil trust’s unfair practices
Upton Sinclair
Described the horrors of the Chicago meat packing industry
Jane Addams
Set up
Hull House( a settlement house)
Pioneered social work
Suffragist
People who fought for women’s right to vote
Prohibition
Laws that would ban make no or selling alcohol
19th amendment
Gave women the right to vote in 1920
Trustbuster
Someone who breaks up trusts into smaller companies
Square Deal
Fair and equal treatment for all
Conservation
The protection and preservation of the country’s natural resources
Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency
Conservation
Consumer protection
Control over corporations
Election of 1912
- the Republican Party was split
- Taft vs Roosevelt
- Democrat candidate was Woodrow Wilson
- progressive candidate was Roosevelt
- Taft won republican vote
= Woodrow Wilson won
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Terrorized African Americans during reconstruction
Wanted to restore whit Protestant America
We’re against •Jews •African Americans •Catholics •Immigrants
W.E.B DuBois
Worked for African American rights and was the first African American to receive a doctoral degree from Harvard
Booker T. Washington
Taught himself to read
Founded the Tuskegee Institute that taught African Americans farming and industrial skills
