Chapters 28-29 Flashcards
Popular journalist who use publicity to expose corruption and attack abuses of power in business and government
Muckrakers
A largely middle-class movement that aim to use the power of government to correct the economic and social problems of industrialism
Progressivism
Roosevelts policy of having the federal government promote the public interest by dealing evenhandedly with both labor and business
Square deal
Eccentric economist who criticized the wealthy for conspicuous consumption failure to serve real human needs
Thorstein Veblen
Early muckraker who expose the political corruption in many American cities
Lincoln Steffens
Leading muckraking journalist who is articles documented the standard oil companies abuse of power
Ida Tarbell
Progressive measure that required US senators to be elected by the people rather than by state legislatures
17th amendment
The most influential of the state level progressive governors and A presidential aspirant in 1912
Robert M Lafollette
Progressive governor of California who broke the stranglehold of the Southern Pacific Railroad on the states politics
Hiram Johnson
New York City disaster that underscored urban workers need for government protection
Triangle shirt waist company fire
Powerful progressive women’s organization that sought to make the world a home like by outlawing the saloon and the product
Women’s Christian temperance union
Dangerous labor conflict resolved by Rooseveltian negotiation and threats against business people
Anthracite coal strike
Waiting female progressive reform or who’s advocacy of pacifism as well as social welfare set her at odds with more muscular and militant progressives
Jane Addams
Progressive novelist who sought to aid the industrial workers but found his book the jungle instead an inspiring middle class consumer protection
Upton Sinclair
Pro conservation federal official who is dismissal by Taft angered Roosevelt progressives
Giffard Pinchot
