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LD PROG ERA
LD PROGRESSIVE ERA - SOCIAL STUDIES
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| PROGRESSIVE | A person who wants to improve society (social, economic, and political). Evolve/Improve |
| 1876 - 1914 | Progressive Era Time Period |
| MUCKRAKER | Journalist who seeks to expose a problem in society. |
| CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION | Takes tests for many government jobs (based on merit-ability) - Pendleton Act. |
| SHERMAN ANTI-TRUST ACT | Made trusts/monopolies illegal |
| INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION | Regulated Railroad's (made pooling, illegal) |
| REPLACE CORRUPT POLITICIANS | Because they traded jobs for bribes, cheated taxpayers, popular with immigrants (traded votes for necessities). |
| MEAT INSPECTION ACT | Forced meat packers to open their doors to government inspectors. |
| MEAT INSPECTION ACT | In reaction to The Jungle- Upton Sinclair |
| CONSERVATION | Protection of Natural resources - Some areas left as wilderness, lumber companies (replace trees), & limit mining. |
| CREATION OF NATIONAL PARKS | An area set aside and run by the Federal government |
| 19TH AMENDMENT | Women gained the right to vote (suffrage). Result of WWI - 1920 |
| 18TH AMENDMENT | Illegal to make, sell, or transport alcohol - 1919 (Prohibition) |
| REPEAL OF 18TH AMENDMENT | 21st Amendment (1933) |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| NAACP | Tried to gain rights for African Americans (WEB Dubois, Booker T. Washington) |
| GRADUATED INCOME TAX | Taxes people from different income levels at different rates. |
| 16TH AMENDMENT | Gave Congress the power to improve a federal income tax. |
| PRIMARY | Voters select candidates |
| INITIATIVE | Voters can propose bills too |
| REFERENDUM | Voters can vote on certain bills directly (often local issues). |
| RECALL | Voters can remove elected officials from office (rare). |
| 17TH AMENDMENT | Provides for the direct election of U.S. Senators (2 per state) |
| THEODORE ROOSEVELT | Set aside 170,000 acres of national parkland (Conservation) |
| THEODORE ROOSEVELT | Launch the break-up of Rockfeller's Standard Oil Company. |
| THEODORE ROOSEVELT | Passed Food and Drug Act (FDA) and Meat Inspection Act (1906). |
| THEODORE ROOSEVELT | 1901-1910 |
| WOODROW WILSON | 1913-1921 |
| WOODROW WILSON | Control big businesses |
| WOODROW WILSON | Improved living conditions |
| WOODROW WILSON | Established a system of Federal Reserve banks to regulate money |
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