Progressive Exam review Flashcards
The Jungle
exposed working conditions in Chicago’s meatpacking industry, Upton Sinclair
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
women’s shirt factory, caught fire and trapped them inside, 146 people died
New Immigration
Southern and Eastern Europe
Upton Sinclair
wrote The Jungle , advocated for clean conditions in meat industry, muckraker
progressive party nickname
Election 1912 Bull Moose Party
Homer Plessy
⅛ black, defied black segregation in law, the separate car act
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alcohol prohibition
Muckrakers
journalists who wanted to expose corruption in established institutions and cities
How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis, exposed poverty, housing crisis, education after European immigration in cities
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allows congress to make income tax without deciding based on population
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let’s all male citizens to vote including blacks
Initiative/Referendum/Recall
people who want to change something in politics or society now, sooner, by voting
Ida Tarbell
journalist who exposed the rich, revealing the monopoly that Rockefeller has over oil industry
Square Deal
made by Theodore Roosevelt, Conservation of natural land, control of corporations, protection of consumer
Temperance
law banning alcohol consumption
Federal Reserve Act
protected US economy by having the central bank oversee monetary policy (max employment, stable prices and interest rates)
Pure Food and Drug Act
food companies have to be inspected and tested before going out to public
History Standard Oil Company
Ida Tarbell, exposed Rockefeller for unethical tactics in business: monopoly, wrote about personal experience: father was run out of oil business
Worker Conditions
dangerous: physical injuries, illness, unsafe/ unclean, long work hours, unfair pay
Dawes Act
gave native americans rights to live on US land through assimilation
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women’s right to vote, women’s suffrage
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each state gets 2 senators elected by the people, each senator is one vote
Populist party
wanted to use gold and silver so that farmers could make profit from crops
assimilation
indoctrination of natives into white culture
