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Progressive era
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 17th Amendment | People elect own senate |
| 18th Amendment | Prohibition |
| 19th Amendment | Women get the right to ote |
| Purple Gang | Started after prohibition, they sold alc illegally, committed crimes, loan sharked for bigger buisness |
| Muckraker | Journalists attacking industries and their leaders saying it's "corrupt" |
| Upton Sinclair | Author of The Jungle, wrote about harsh conditions in the workplace (meatpacking) |
| Triangle Factory Fire | Fire that started in a factory with women working, they were locked inside, started because of a cigarette |
| Initiative | Idea for a law singed by a certain number of citizens can force a public vote for the law. EX- Prop 1, Prop 2, Prop 3 |
| Referendum | a general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision. |
| Meat Inspection Act | No mislabeling or branding of meat, Makes sure meat is slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions |
| Food and drug act | Products had to be inspected by health inspectors. Consequences for offenders. |
| Scientific managment | Using science to evaluate efficiency ad making business smarter |
| The Jungle Impacts on society | People were shocked, grossed out and mortified. They began to understand hw badly we needed changes in the workplace |
| Protecting social welfare (one of the 4 goals) | Improving harsh conditions of the workplace. Child labor, Unsafe conditions, low pay, unsanitary living |
| Promoting Moral Improvement (one of the 4 goals) | Improving lives of poor people by improving behavior. Prohibition, reducing crime, Women's suffrage |
| Creating economic reform (one of the 4 goals) | helping people overcome poverty. Anti-trust act, focusing on government problems, laws improving economy |
| Fostering efficiency (one of the 4 goals) | used scientific management or "Taylorism" to make doing things more efficient ex- assembly line |
| What were the 4 goals of progressivism | Protecting social welfare, Fostering efficiency, Creating economic reform, Promoting moral improvment |
| Muller Vs Oregon | Women provided less work hours |
| Henery ford | Automobile Industry, Assembly line, he payed his worker higher wages so they could afford his cars and work harder |
| recall | voter can vote to remove certain government officials |
| direct primary | Nominate canidates by direct voting |
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