The Progressive Era - Chapter 17 Flashcards
Explain how the progressive movement managed to increase the power of government to regulate business and to protect society from the injustices fostered by big business.
Writer who exposes wrongdoing
Muckraker
Amendment providing for senators to be elected directly
Seventeenth Amendment
National American Woman Suffrage Association; founded in 1890 to help women win the right to vote
NAWSA
President Roosevelt’s program of progressive reforms
Square Deal
Social reform movement in the early 20th century
Progressive Movement
Law to stop the sale of unclean food and drugs, 1906
Pure Food and Drug Act
A way for people to propose laws directly
Initiative
President of NAWSA, who led the campaign for woman suffrage during Wilson’s administration
Carrie Chapman Catt
A federal agency set up in 1914 to investigate businesses to help enforce the laws
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded in 1909 to work for racial equality
NAACP
A way for people to approve changes in laws by a vote
Referendum
President from 1901 to 1909
Theodore Roosevelt
Social reformer who helped win the passage of the Illinois Factory Act in 1893
Florence Kelley
The planned management of natural resources
Conservation
Law reforming meatpacking conditions, 1906
Meat Inspection Act
A vote on weather to remove a public official from office
Recall
National Association of Colored Women; founded in 1896 to improve living and working conditions for African-American women
NACW
Nickname for the new Progressive Party, which was formed to support Roosevelt in the election of 1912
Bull Moose Party
Bill meant to lower tariffs on imported goods
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
National banking system begun in 1913
Federal Reserve System
Law that weakened monopolies and upheld the rights of unions and farm organizations
Clayton Antitrust Act
President from 1909 to 1913, successor to Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Leader of thee woman suffrage movement, who helped to define the movement’s goals and beliefs and to lead its actions
Susan B. Anthony
The right to vote; a major goal of women reformers
Suffrage
Novelist who exposed social problems
Upton Sinclair
Progressive Wisconsin governor and senator
Robert M. LaFollette
Head of the U.S. Forest Service under Roosevelt, who believed that it was possible to make use of natural resources while conserving them
Gifford Pinchot
Using scientific ideas to male work more efficient
Scientific Management
Making the sale or use of alcohol illegal
Prohibition
Novel by Upton Sinclair describing meatpacking
The Jungle
Amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to vote
Nineteenth Amendment
Winner of the 1912 Presidential election
Woodrow Wilson
