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Progressivism Ch.21
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ashcan School | Artists in the 20th century, used as their subject matter the things and people found in city streets and slums. |
| Clayton Antitrust Act | Legislation that strengthened antitrust laws. Outlawed; interlocking directorates. |
| Conservation | The efficient management and use of natural resources. |
| Federal Reserve Act | A law establishing a Federal Reserve Board. Controlled the rediscount rate and money supply. |
| Hepburn Act | Federal legislation, gave the Interstate Commerce Commission sufficient power to inspect railroad companies. |
| Industrial Workers of the World | Militant labor organization. Inspired by European anarchists, that advocated "abolition of the wage system." |
| Muckraker | Progressive investigative journalists who exposed the seamy side of American life. |
| National American Woman Suffrage Association | An organization that united the National Woman Suffrage Association. Became the league of Women Voters. |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | National interracial organization that promoted the rights of African Americans. |
| New Freedom | Woodrow Wilson's campaign for a proposed policy that would restore competition by breaking up the trusts/punishing corporations. |
| New Nationalism | Theodore Roosevelt's election for an expansion of federal power to regulate big business to promote social justice. |
| Niagara movement | Opposition to Booker T. Washington's advocacy of black accommodation to white prejudice, led to forming the NAACP. |
| Progressivism | Cluster of movements for various forms of social change. Opposed corruption, and inefficiency in government. |
| Square Deal | Described an arbitrated settlement between workers and an employer. More generally employed as a goal. |
| Underwood Tariff | A reform law that lowered tariff rates and levied the first regular federal income tax. |
| Woman Suffrage | The right of women to vote, ensured by the passage and ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. |
| Sixteenth Amendment | Authorized federal income tax, 1913. |
| Nineteenth Amendment | Established woman suffrage, 1920 |
| Newlands Act | Funneled revenues from sale of public lands to irrigation projects. |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | Prohibited the fraudulent advertising, manufacturing, and selling of impure foods and drugs. |
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