Progressive Era

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Group of journalists who brought many of society’s ills to public attention

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muckrakers

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1906 law banned the manufacture & sale of food & medicines that contained harmful ingredients

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Pure Food & Drug Act

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Reform that allowed citizens to propose new laws to be on the ballot for voter approval

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initiative

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Empowered voters to remove elected officials from office before the end of their term

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recall

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1920 law giving women the right to vote

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19th Amendment

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1913 law that authorized Congress to levy income taxes

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16th Amendment

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Expands direct democracy by empowering voters to approve or reject new laws passed by a legislative body

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referendum

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Expanded democracy by allowing voters to directly elect their US Senators

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17th Amendment

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Created a national banking system

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Federal Reserve Act 1913

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1916 department established to maintain the nations parks and monuments

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National Park Service

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Reform movement to stop the consumption of alcohol

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prohibition

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1906 novel that exposed the unsanitary conditions of meatpacking plants

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The Jungle

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Muckraker and photographer who exposed urban poverty in his novel How the Other Half Lives

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Jacob Riis

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Leader of the settlement house movement in Chicago

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Jane Addams

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1909 organization created to end segregation in housing and other areas of life for African Americans

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NAACP

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1919 law banning the manufacture, sale and distribution of alcohol

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18th Amendment

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Muckraker who published the novel The Jungle in 1906

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Upton Sinclair

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institution in a city providing educational, recreational, & other social services to the community

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Settlement Houses

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Leader of the Women’s Christian Temperance Movement

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Frances Willard

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Leading African American who emphasized the importance of economic and cultural self–improvement

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Booker T. Washington

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Early civil rights activist who founded the NAACP

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W.E.B Du Bois

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Government rules or restrictions placed on businesses

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regulations

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Citizens direct involvement in the democratic process

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direct democracy

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the 26th U.S. president known for conservationism & reformed the government through strict regulation of business

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Theodore Roosevelt

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The belief that only the fittest survive inhuman political and economic struggle

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Social Darwinism

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Right to vote

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suffrage

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America’s most famous naturalist &conservationist who was influential in the founding of today’s National Park system

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John Muir

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Third party of the late 1800s supported mostly by farmers who sought currency expansion & railroad regulations

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Populist Party

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organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests

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Labor Unions

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The voters who elect a government representative

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constituents