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Chapter 8 Hunt
The Progressive Era
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Progresivisim | movement that responded to the presures of urbanization and industrialization by promotion reforms |
| Muckracker | writer who exposes misconducts in buisnesses and politics |
| Social Gospel | movement that sougth to improve socciety by applying christian principals |
| Settlement House | community center providing social servives to the urban poor |
| Direct Primary | election in which citizens vote to select nominees for upcoming elections |
| Initiative | citizens putting a proposed new law directly on the ballot |
| Referendum | process that allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by a legislature |
| Recall | process which voters can remove elected officials from office before their term ends |
| NCL | group organized in 1899 to investigate the conditions under which goods were made and sold to promote safe working conditions and a minimum wage |
| Temperance Movement | movement aimed at stopping alcohol abuse and problems created from it |
| Suffrage | right to vote |
| NAWSA | group founded in 1890 that worked on giving women the right to vote |
| Ninteteenth Amendment | gave women right to vote |
| Americanization | belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more loyal |
| Niagra Movement | group of african american thinkers that pushed for immediate racial forms |
| NAACP | oraganization formed in 1909 to ablosih segregation and discrimination and to achieve political and civil rights for african americans |
| Urban League | networks of churches that set up employment agencies and relief efforts to help african americans find work in cities |
| Anti-Defamation League | oragnization formed in 1913 to defend jews against physical and verbal attacks |
| Mutalistas | organized groups of mexican americans that make loans to other members of their community |
| Square Deal | Roosevelts program of reforms to keep the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of the poor and small business owners |
| Hepburn Act | 1906 law that gave the government authority to set railroad rates and maximun prices for tarrifs, bridge tolls, etc |
| Meat Inspection Act | 1906 law that allowed the federal gov to inspect meat sold across the state lines |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | 1906 law that allowed federal inspection of food and medicine and banned the shipment of impure food |
| National Reclamation Act | 1902 law that gave federal gov the power to decide where and how water would be distributed through building and management of dams |
| New Nationalism | Roosevelts plan to restore the govs trustbusting power |
| Progressive Party | political party that split the Rupublican Party in 1912 |
| New Freedom | Wilsons program to place gov controls coroporation in order to benifit small businesses |
| Sixteenth Amendment | gave congress authority to levy an income tax |
| Federal Reserve Act | 1913 law that placed national banks under the control of a Federal Reserve Board |
| Federal Trade Commison | gov aggency established to identify false advertising and dishonest labeling |
| Clayton Anti-Trust Act | 1914 law that strenghtened the Sherman Anti-Trust Act |
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