Proggesive Era Flashcards
19th amendment
Gave women the right to vote
Upton Sinclair
Wrote the jungle exposed social problems
Carrie chapman catt
Led NAWSA a after Susan
Federal reserve system
National banking system in 1913
Federal trade commission
To investigate business to help enforce laws
Clayton antitrust act
Law that weakened monopolies
Woodrow Wilson
Winner of the 1912 presidential election
Bull moose party
Progressive party supported by Roosevelt
Gifford pinchat
Head of US forest service
Payne Aldrich tarrif
Bill meant to lower tariffs on imported foods
William Howard Taft
President from 1903-1913
Conservation
This planned management for natural recourses
Square deal
Roosevelt program of progressive reforms
Theodore Roosevelt
President from 1901-1909
Three ways women tried to win the vote
Convince state legislatures
Use court cases
Pushed for constitutional amendment