Chapter 9 Flashcards
Florence Kelley
A woman advocate for improving the lives if women and children.
Progressive movement
Aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct injustices in American life.
Prohibition
The banning off alcoholic beverages.
Muckrakers
Journalists who wrote about the corruption side of business and public life in mass circulation magazines.
Scientific management
Studies to see how quickly manufacturing tasks could be preformed.
Robert La Follete
Progressive republican governor from Wisconsin who fought corporate corruption.
Initiative
A bill originated from the people rather than lawmakers.
Referedum
A vote on a intitiative.
Recall
Enabled voters to move public officials from office by facing another election before their term ended.
Seventeenth amendment
Senetors elected directly from citizens, not politicitians.
Carry Nation
A radical Prohibitionist who often vandalized and destroyed bars and pubs.
NAWSA
National American woman suffer eagle association.
Suffrage
The right to vote.
Susan b anthony.
A leader of the woman suffrage movement.
Elizabeth cady Stanton
Co founder of national woman suffrage Association.
Seneca falls convention of 1848
A convention causing a split within women suffragists about the 14th and 15th amendments.
Uptown Sinclair THE JUNGLE
A book about the unsanitary stockyards and meat packing plants of Chicago.
Theodore Roosevelt.
A progressive president who introduced many reforms and conservation practices.
The Square Deal
The various progressive reforms sponsored by the Roosevelt advministration.
Meat inspections act.
Dictated strict cleanliness requirements for meat packers.
Pure food and drugs act
Halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling.
Conservation.
The preservation of certain wilderness areas.
John Muir
A naturalist and writer who convinced Roosevelt to set aside 148 million cadres of forest reserves.
Booker t Washington.
A civil rights cat driving who believed that African americans would gradually prove their value to society.
W E B Du Bois
Civil rights activist who established the NAACP and called for immediate social and economic equality for African Americans.
NAACP
national association for the advancement of colored people.
Muckrakers.
Coined by Theodore Roosevelt. Journalists who raked the muck to reveal what was beneath.
Lincoln Steffens.
Muckraker who published exposés of business and political corruption such as the shame of the cities, and the struggle for self government.
Ida Tarbell.
A journalist that published the History if the standard oil company, revealing Rockefeller’s ruthlessness.
Jacob Riis.
Muckraker famous for his photography of poverty and child labor, such as his publication , how the other half lives.
William Howard Taft
Former Roosevelt secretary of war and following president.
Payne Aldrich tariff
A compromise for tariffs that only moderated high rates of the Aldrich bill.
Bull moose party
Alternative name for progressive party coined by teddy Roosevelt courage and strength
Woodrow Wilson.
Democratic president who won the 1912 election.
Gifford Pinchot
Head of us forest service under Roosevelt.
Carrie chapman act
President of NAWSA when suffrage amendment was passed.
Clayton-antitrust act
Strengthened Sherman antitrust act of 1890. Sought to stop monopolies from forming.
Federal trade commission
A watchdog agency that investigated corporate corruption and violations.
Federal reserve system
The acquiring of Americas banking system by the government the serves as the banking system today.
18t amendment
Prohibition
19th amendment.
Women suffrage amendment.
Frank Lloyd wright
An architect who designed orderly efficient and natural buildings.
