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Progressive Era test
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Term | Definition |
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Susan B Anthony | leader in the movement for suffrage |
recall | recall a government official |
initiative | amount of say people have - right to write a bill for viewing by legislature |
referendum | accepted or rejected the initiative |
jane addams | hull house for immigrants - settlement house - learn life skills and whatnot |
Illinois factory act of 1893 | no child labor, limited workday |
muller vs oregon | limited people to a 10 hour workday |
17th amendment | direct election of senators |
18th amendment | prohibition |
19th amendment | women's suffrage |
William McKinley | president before Roosevelt, 7 mil acres of land set aside, assassinated |
leon czolgosz | shot mckinley (anarchy) |
square deal | control railroads, regulate big business, conserve land, social reforms |
election of 1912 | Taft, Roosevelt, and Wilson. Progressive party (bull moose) was roosevelt, he wanted to take away taft's power because he wasn't conserving enough and whatever. Wilson was a democrat, Taft and Roosevelt were both republicans but wilson won |
upton sinclair | the jungle |
jacob riis | photographer - how the other half lives |