Vocab quiz 10/2 Flashcards
4 goals of progressive movement
- Protect social welfare
- Promote moral improvement
- Create economic reform
- Be more efficient
Prohibition
The banning of alcohol
Muckraker
A character that is so busy using a rake to clean up the muck of the world
Scientific management
Study to see how quickly a task can be performed
Recall
Voters could remove a public official by forcing another election
Referendum
A vote to initiate a program
17th amendment
Amendment to elect state legislators
Suffrage
The right to vote
Susan B. Anthony
A leader of the woman’s suffrage movement
N.A.A.C.P.
National association for the advancement of colored people
Square deal
Various progressive reforms sponsored by Roosevelt
Y.M.C.A.
Young mans Christian association. Founded to get people more involved in Christianity
Bull moose party
Progressive party
Payne Aldrich tariff
A set of tax regulations enacted by congress on manufactured goods
Federal reserve system
national banking system
19th amendment
Amendment that granted woman the right to vote
Federal trade commission (FTC)
Watchdog agency to watch how businesses are run in the u.s. To make sure they are run properly and not abusing people
William Howard Taft
Secretary of war under Roosevelt
George Eastman
Created cameras (kodak company)
Social Darwinism
How rich people viewed the world on how people are rich and why some people are poor (because they are inferior)
