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Progressive Era
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 16th Amendment | Graduated Income Tax (more money you make the more taxes you pay) |
| 17th Amendment | Direct Election of Senators |
| 18th Amendment | Prohibition (alcohol is illegal) |
| 19th Amendment | Women's Suffrage (right to vote) |
| Mucrakers | Investigative reporters who reviled the evils of society |
| Ida B. Wells | Anti-lynching |
| Ida Tarbell | Investigated Rockefeller and Standard Oil |
| Upton Sinclair | Wrote "The Jungle" investigated rats in the meat. Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act passed. |
| Lincoln Steffens | Wrote "Shame of the Cities" investigated urban depression and corruption |
| Jacob Riis | "How the Other Half Lives" photographed the urban depression |
| W.E.B. DuBois | Fought for African American rights and co founded NAACP |
| Susan B. Anthony | Fought for 19th Amendment, Women's Suffrage |
| Booker T. Washington | Fought for African American rights encouraged vocational training |
| Populist Party | Common men including farmers, miners and factory workers |
| Populist Party Platform | Unlimited silver (available and will raise crop prices), graduated income tax and direct election of senators |
| Impact of third parties | Legacies (ideas) can live on and split the votes in elections |
| Election of 1912 | Taft- Republican, Roosevelt- Bull Moose, Wilson- Democrat due to 3rd party republicans split the vote and Wilson wins |
| Federal Reserve Act | Regulates the money supply |
| Clayton Anti- Trust Act and Sherman Anti-Trust Act | Role of the government changes from Laissez-Faire and now regulates big business |
| Interstate Commerce Act | Regulates Railroads shipping rates. Helps the farmers |
| Pendleton Act | Make government employment fair, requires civil service exams |
| Initative | Political reform that gives power (voice) to the people. People can put an idea on the ballot and vote on it. |
| Referendum | Political reform that gives power to the people. People can influence the government but politicians put the idea on the ballot and vote on it |
| Recall | Political reform that gives power to the people. Politicians can be removed from office with special election. |
| Gospel of Wealth | Andrew Carnegie donates money to the poor to improve their lives he builds libraries and universities. |
| Meat Inspection Act | After the investigation of Upton Sinclair passed to protect the direct consumers |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | After the investigation of Upton Sinclair passed to protect the direct consumers |
| Child Labor Laws | Passed to keep children safe and prevent abuse |
| Roosevelt Conservation | Roosevelt wanted to conservation national resources |
| Goals of Progressives | Like the Populist, the progressives wanted to improve the general welfare of the people so they created social, political and economic reforms. |
| Anti-trust | Against big business |
| Social Gospel | Helped the poor and in return will have salvation (go to Heaven) Jane Addams believed in Social Gospel |
| Philanthropist | A wealthy person who donates money to help the poor |
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