The Progressive Era vocab Flashcards
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what is the 16th Amendment?
Supreme Court declaring federal income tax
17th Amendment?
Allowed voters to select united states senators
18th amendment?
Prohibit production, sale and transportation of alcohol in the united states.
19th amendment?
Guranteed women to vote
Muckracker
Journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in a society.
Suffarage
Right to vote
Recall
Right that enables voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials from office.
Reform
To change
Initiative
Right of citizens to place a measure or issue before the voters or the legislators for approval.
Referendum
Practice of letting voters accept or reject measures proposed by legislature.
Progressive
refers to those who advocate making reforms to the social and political status quo.
Anti trust act
Prohibited any combination or conspiracy in resistant of trade or commerce among the several states.
Pendleton civil service act
Required some jobs befilled by competitive written exams rather than by patronage.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Upheld the principle of racial segregation.
Upton sinclair
Novelist and social crusader from california who made a novel which enraged many consumers.
Susan b Anthony
President of National American Woman Suffarage Accociation from 1892 to 1900.
Dubois
Writter who saw no reason to give up civil rights, wanted to protect womens rights.
Booker t washington
Proposed that african americans concentrate on achieving economic goals rather political goals.
Shame on cities
A book written by Lincoln steffens. Talking about the corrupt parties in the cities.
Bitter cry of children
Presented detailed evidence of child labor conditions
How the other half lives
Book Jacob riis published photographs and descriptions of poverty, disease, and crime that afflicted immigrants
Tuskee Institution
To teach african american trades and agricultural skills.
