Progressive Legislation Reading Quiz Flashcards
Rose Shneiderman
29 years old. Labor leader. Jewish immigrant from Poland. Best-known women labor leader. Helped stir powerful public support for reforms.
Shirtwaist Company fire. 10-story. Many women died.
Shirtwaist Company Fire
Helped ensure a minimum standard of living
Social Welfare Reforms
A system that gives cities a limited degree of self-rule.
Home Rule
City level
Municipal
An election in which citizens vote to select nominees for upcoming elections.
Direct Primary
A process that allows citizens to approve or reject a las passed by the legislature.
Referendum
Permits voters to remove public officials from office before the next election.
Recall
A firm that buys up stocks and bonds of smaller companies.
Holding Company
Municipal reformers opposed the influence of ___?
Political bosses
Ran for mayor of NYC, supported by municipal reformers. Against Tammany Hall. Low lost, but then won in 1901.
Seth Low
Powerful hurricane in Gulf of Mexico slammed into Galveston, Texas. Led to?
Galveston Model
Galveston Model?
Emergency commission of five administrators to replace the mayor and aldermen. The commission handled the rebuilding with such efficiency that Galveston permanently instituted the commission form of government. Other cities adapted it too.
Reformers made efforts to regulate or dislodge….?
Monopolies that provided city utilities such as water, gas, and electricity.
Reform mayors?
Hazen a. Pingree of Detroit
Samuel M. Jones of Toledo
Tom Johnson of Cleveland
Pingree provided?
Public baths, parks, and a work-relied program from Detroit.
Jones provided?
Playgrounds, free kindergartens, and lodging houses for the homeless in Toledo.
Robert M. La Follette
Instituted a direct primary. One of the most determined progressives in U.S. Policies. “Fighting Bob” (earned through efforts to clean up govt. and produce social welfare reforms. He hosted party bosses and brought about structural changes such as a direct primary and civil service reform.
Lochner v. New York
Supreme Court struck down a law setting maximum hours for bakers. Court said that since law had not been shown to protect public health, the law constitutes improper use of the state’s police power.
Muller v. Oregon
Court upheld an Oregon law that limited hours for female laundry workers to 10 hours a day.
Louis D. Brandeis
Lawyer that represented the interests of the laundry workers. Using scientific evidence.
16th Amendment
Authorized congress to collect federal income taxes. Enabled govt. to get more revenues from people with higher incomes.
17th Amendment
Allowing direct election of senators.
18th Amendment
Banned the production, sale, or import of alcoholic beverages.
Not all progressives favored…?
Prohibition
