Module 22 Flashcards
(22 cards)
Political Machines
a powerful organization that influenced city and county politics in the late 1800s. Used tactics such as helping the urban poor.
Initiative
a method of allowing voters to propose a new law if enough signatures are collected on a petition
Recall
a vote to remove an official from office
Direct Primary
Voters choose candidates.
Referendum
a procedure that allows voters to approve or reject a law already proposed or passed by government
Ways reformers and Labor unions improved working conditions?
minimum wage laws,commission was created to establish rates for child workers, Labor leaders and reformers also fought for workers’ compensation laws, which guaranteed a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job, organized strikes, worked to restrict womens work hours
AFL
one of the strongest labor unions. The AFL focused on better working conditions and pay for skilled workers. Gompers supported the American economic system of capitalism,
ILGWU
organized unskilled laborers. In 1909, the garment workers called for a mass strike known as the “Uprising of the 20,000.” The strikers won a shorter workweek and higher wages. They also attracted thousands of workers to the union.
IWW
Its goal was to organize all workers into one large union that would overthrow capitalism.
Samuel Gompers
leader of the AFL
William “Big Bill’ Haywood
one of the leaders of the Industrial Workers of the World, a socialist labor union active in the early 1900s
Eugene V. Debs
believed in socialism and led socialists
16th amendment
It gave the federal government the power to collect income tax.
17th amendment
It said that United States Senators would now be directly elected by popular vote
18th amendment
a constitutional amendment that outlawed the production and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States; repealed in 1933
19th amendment
a constitutional amendment that gave women the vote
W. E. B. dubois
NAACP’s director of publicity and research and starting the organization’s official journal, The Crisis, in 1910.
Booker T. Washington
African American educator and civil rights leader, he was born into slavery and later became head of the Tuskegee Institute for career training for African Americans. He was an advocate for conservative social change.
Ida B Wells
African American journalist and anti-lynching activist, she was part owner and editor of the Memphis newspaper Free Speech.
Theodore Roosevelt
Twenty-sixth president of the United States after William McKinley was assassinated, he organized the first volunteer cavalry regiment known as the Rough Riders who fought in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. As president, he acquired the Panama Canal Zone and announced the Roosevelt Corollary, making the United States the defender of the Western Hemisphere.
William howard taft
Twenty-seventh president of the United States, he angered Progressives by moving cautiously toward reforms and by supporting the Payne-Aldrich Tariff, which did not lower tariffs very much. He lost Roosevelt’s support and was defeated for a second term.
Woodrow Wilson
Twenty-eighth president of the United States, his reform legislation was given the name New Freedom, and it included three constitutional amendments: direct election of senators, prohibition, and women’s suffrage. He created the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Trade Commission, and he enacted child labor laws.
