Module 14 Flashcards
Progressive movement
Social reform movement in the early -20th century
Florence Kelley
Social reformer who worked to help women and children
Prohibition
Making the sale or use of alcohol illegal
Muckraker
Writer who exposes wrongdoing
Scientific Management
using scientific ideas to make work more efficient
Henry Ford
Changed manufacturing with the introduction of the Model T automobile and the use of assembly lines
Robert M. La Follette
Progressive Wisconsin governor and senator
Initiative
The procedure by which citizens can propose a law
Referendum
A way for people to approve changes in law by a vote
Recall
A vote on whether to remove a unlicensed official from office
Seventeenth Amendment
Amendment providing for senators to be elected directly
Booker T. Washington
Prominent African American educator
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
School headed by Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Du Bois
First African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard
Niagara Movement
Insisted that blacks should seek a liberal art education so that the African American community would have well educated leaders
Ida B. Wells
African American reformer who tied to end lynching through her reporting
Poll tax
Money one had to pay in order to vote
Grandfather clause
Clause that allowed poor, uneducated whites to vote e
Segregation
The word used to describe racial separation
Jim Crow laws
Laws that helped keep whites and blacks separated
Please v. Ferguson
Court case that upheld the Jim Crow laws
Debt peonage
A system in which a person is forced to work to pay off debts
Theodore Roosevelt
United States President from 1901 to 1909
Square Deal
President Theodore Roosevelt’s program for progressive reforms
The Jungle
Novel by Upton Sinclair describing meatpacking
Upton Sinclair
Novelist who exposed social problems
Meat Inspection Act
Law reforming meatpacking conditions, 1906
Pure food and drug act
Law to stop the sale of unclean food and drugs, 1906
Conservation
The planned management of natural resources
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored people, founded in 1909 to work for racial equality.
William Howard Taft
President from 1909 t0 1913; successor to Theodore Roosevelt
Payne - Aldrich Tariff
Bill meant to lower tariffs on imported goods
Gifford Pinchot
Head of the U.S. Forestry service under Roosevelt, who believed that it was possible to make use of natural resources while conserving them
Bull Moose Party
Nickname for the new Progressive Party, which was formed to support Roosevelt in the election of 1912.
Woodrow Wilson
Winner of the 1912 presidential election
Clayton Antitrust Act
Law that weakened monopolies and uphold the rights of unions and farm organizations
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
A federal agency set up in 1914 to investigate businesses to help enforce regulatory laws
Federal Reserve System
National banking system begun in 1913
Carrie Chapman Catt
President of NAWSA (National American Women Suffrage Association) who led the campaign for women;s suffrage during Wilson’s administration.
Nineteenth Amendmne t
Amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to vote
