The Progressive Era Flashcards
2 Goals during the Progressive Era
- Use government power to controll the truss
2. Lessen the socialist threat by improving the lives and working conditions of the common man.
4 Things the government was opposed to during the Progressive Era
- Monopolies
- Slums
- Corruption
- Prostitution
4 of the Governments methods to accomplish their goals
- Direct primary elections in every state.
- direct elections of us senators
- Initiative
- allows voters to propose laws - Referendum
- allows voters to vote on laws
What are Muckrakers
Writters who will attack social ills in their writtings
Author of How the Other Half Lives
John Rus
Who wrote the exposé on Standard Oil?
Ida Tarbell
Author of “The Shame of the Cities”
Lincoln Stevens
Author of Bitter Cry of the Children
John Spargo
Leaders of the National American Women’s Suffrage Association
Susan B. Anthony
Lucy Stone
Minor VS Happersett
- Women are citizens.
- the state can withhold the right to vote.
19th amendment
Gives women the right to vote.
Temperance
Wanted to limit alcohol, especially liquor.
Anti-Saloon league
Kerry Nation
18th Amendment
Prohibition amendment
Bolsters Act
Enforces prohibition
Square Deal
-3 C’s
Controll of the corporations
Consumer protection
Conservation of natural resources
Elkins Act
Made it illegal for railroads to take or give secret rebates for freight charges to favorite customers.
Everyone will be charged the same
Hepburn act
Prohibited free passes
Trust Busting
Govt must prove that big business doesn’t run the country.
First company broken up by the new trust busting laws
The Northern Securities Company
Coal strike
- Wanted more pay and 8 hour work day.
- T.R. Invites both parties to White House to settle dispute.
Leader of United Mine Workers Union
John Mitchell
Department of Commerce and Labor
Helps settle labor disputes
Meat Inspection Act
Any mets shipped over state lines is subject to federal inspection.
Author of the Jungle
Upton Sinclair
Pure Food and Drug Act
To prevent mislabeling and adulteration of food and drugs
Desert Land Act
Arid public land sold to individuals at a low price if they agree to irrigate it for 3 years
Forest Reserve Act
Authorized the president to set aside public forest as national parks
Carey Act
Public land given to states on condition that it would be irrigated and settled
Newlands act
Public lands would be sold to public and the revenues used to develop irrigation projects
Aldrich- Vreeland act
National banks can issue emergency currency backed by various kinda of collateral.
What was Tafts foreign policy called?
Dollar Diplomacy
Goals of Dollar Diplomacy
- Protect Panama Canal and surrounding Area.
- Lessen European Power in Latin America