Progressivism(Unit 5) Flashcards
Rutherford Hayes
Republican and ended reconstruction
James a Garfield
Republican killed by a lawyer Charles Guiteau
Chester Arthur
Republican created Civil Service Commission check qualifications
Benjamin Harrison
Republican Sherman antitrust act
Grover Cleveland
Democrat only president elected twice not in a row
Stops Pullman strike
William Mc Kinley
Why does it keep monopolies assassinated Roosevelt president
Killed by Leon czolgosz
Progressive era
1890 through 1920
A variety of reforms were inactive at all levels
Many Progressives believe that political action and reform or required for progress in society
Muckrakers
Journalist that expose turn-of-the-century problems/people
Economic reform
Reformers sought To curb the power and influence of wealthy interests
Stop monopolies trusts limit gap between rich and poor
Sherman antitrust act
Enacted in 1890
Effort by Congress to end trusts
Ineffective due to lack of enforcement
Clayton antitrust act
Strengthened the Sherman antitrust act
Spelled out specific activities that businesses could and could not do
Illegalized strikes
Federal reserve system
Regulates amount of money in circulation
Set interest rates
Regulates how much a bank can lend
16th amendment
Congress can levy income taxes
Ida Tarbell
History of standard oil exposed the practices of big business
Social reform
Government should be given expanded powers so that it could become more active in improving the lives of its citizens
Woman’s rights
Suffrage owning property divorce clothing birth control
Woman’s reform leaders
Susan B Anthony
Florence Kelly
Alice Paul
Protection of the environment
Antiquities act of 1906
Protect and preserve wildlife areas
Allows president designate national monuments
Tenement life
Overcrowding of cities Poor living conditions unsanitary conditions
Unsafe working conditions in child labor
Fewer hours higher wages safer factories unions
Triangle shirt waist factory
Unsafe working conditions lead to fire their locked in and jumped from windows
Led to a push for comprehensive safety and Worker’s Compensation laws
Safer medicines
Restriction of harmful drugs proper labeling government approval for future drugs/Medicines
Safer food
Government inspection of food proper labeling cleanliness
The jungle
Written by Upton Sinclair
Reveal horrors of the meatpacking industry
Pure food and drug act of 1906
Created food and drug administration prescriptions required for light since physicians label warnings of symptoms or addiction warnings
Meet inspection of
All animals were required an inspection
Carcasses were subject to a postmortem inspection
Cleanliness standards were established for slaughter houses and processing plants
Civil rights movement
African-Americans were still fighting for basic rights guaranteed to them in the Constitution
Problems African-Americans fought against
Poll tax paid to vote
Literacy tests prove you can read to vote
Grandfather clause
Jim Crow laws
System of laws that segregated public services by race
Plessy versus Ferguson
Separate but equal
Supreme Court ruled Homer Plessy saying segregation was legal as long as separate facilities were equal
Lynching
Mobs illegal seizure and execution of a person usually by hanging
Booker T. Washington
Encourage African-Americans to become educated and learn a trade
W EB Dubois
Encouraged African-Americans to attend college and become leaders
Started NAACP
NAACP
National Association for the advancement of colored people
Gain equal rights
Moral reform
End prostitution End gambling End drunkenness Education for children Americanization and restriction of immigrants
18th amendment
Prohibition of alcohol
Band production distribution and transportation of alcohol
Political reform
Governments should become more efficient and less corupt
Direct primaries
Voter select their parties candidates
17th amendment
US senators are elected by popular vote
Initiative
Voters can put bills before the legislation
Referendum
Voters can vote on bills directly
Recall
Photos can remove elected officials from office
Theodore Roosevelt
Republican youngest president
Took office after McKinley’s shot
Trustbuster
Square deal
William H Taft
Republican
Promise to continue Theodore Roosevelt ideas
Slow the progressive reforms lacked Theodore Roosevelt’s energy
Gilded
Chief center with thin layer of gold on the top
