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Progressive Era - Vocab Flashcards

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Period of time where there is a large ECONOMIC GAP between the wealthy & the poor…

  • Characterized by social activism & political change
  • 1890s - 1920s
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Progressive Era / Gilded AGe

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REFORMERS who wanted POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, & SOCIAL CHANGE during the 1900s…

  • Improve American life, protect consumers, end political corruption
  • Hoped to ELIMINATE corruption and injustice
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Progressives

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A person who has CONTROL over a political party’s financing of campaigns & influence through owing favors & electing friends/supporters to important positions…

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Political Bosses

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An ELECTION IN WHICH VOTERS, rather than party leaders CHOOSE THEIR PARTY CANDIDATE…

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Primary

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A process in which CITIZENS can place PROPOSED LAWS on the ballot without the legislature voting on it first - requires signatures from citizens to show support….

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Initiative

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A way for PEOPLE (CITIZENS) TO VOTE DIRECTLY on a law or repeal an act of the Legislature…

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Referendum

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A process by which people may vote to REMOVE AN ELECTED OFFICIAL from office before the end of their term…

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Recall

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A method of taxation that taxes people at different rates (percentages) depending on income…

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Graduated Income Tax

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Allows the Federal Government (Congress) to collect an INCOME TAX (1913)…

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16th Amendment

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The PEOPLE VOTE DIRECTLY for U.S. Senators (1913)…

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17th Amendment

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A person who INVESTIGATES & PUBLISHES SCANDAL & CORRUPTION regarding political AND business leaders, as well as brings light to SOCIAL INJUSTICES…

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Muckrakers

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Novel written by Upton Sinclair in 1906 - Portrayed the harsh conditions & oppressed lives of immigrants working in the MEATPACKING INDUSTRY in Chicago…

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“The Jungle”

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Law that required food & drug makers to list ingredients on their packages & inspection of products…

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Pure Food & Drug Act (FDA) - 1906

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Organized effort during the 19th and early 20th centuries to LIMIT or OUTLAW the consumption and production of ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES in the United States…

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Temperance Movement - “Drys”

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BAN on the manufacturing, distribution & sale of alcohol…

-18th Amendment to the Constitution = PROHIBITION AMENDMENT

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Prohibition

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Banned the sales of alcoholic beverages

-Ratified in 1919

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18th Amendment

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