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Progressive Era
Ch. 12
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cotton | A crop whose price increased due to WW1 trade with Allied Powers |
| pandemic | worldwide epidemic; killed 26 million in 1918 |
| RFD | Rural Free Delivery; program that helped deliver products directly to rural areas allowing farmers to order tools and supplies quickly. |
| Progressive Era | Time when people began to turn to the government to fix economic and social problems. |
| Trust | Combination of corporations that reduces competition; monopoly |
| trustbuster | Attempt to break up trusts in industries such as railroads |
| Muckrakers | Newspaper reporters and journalist who attempted to bring justice to immoral actions in the United States. |
| Upton Sinclair | Author of The Jungle, exposed unsanitary conditions in meat packing industry |
| Federal Reserve System | Independent government agency that regulates the banking and money system |
| 19th Amendment | Women's Suffrage; 1920 |
| Richard I. Manning | Progressive SC Governor; raised minimum working age to 14 and supported WWI |
| Allied Powers | FURBI (France, US, Russia, Britain, Italy) |
| Trench warfare | WWI strategy where opposing forces would attack from series of bunkers separated by No Man's Land |
| League of Nations | First attempt at a worldwide peacekeeping organization (later replaced by United Nations) |
| MAIN causes of WWI | Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism |
| Treaty of Versailles | Armistice that ended WWI |
| 18th Amendment | Prohibited the sale of alcohol |
| Teddy Roosevelt | Trustbuster President |
| Ida Tarbell | Muckraker who exposed Roosevelt and the Standard Oil Company |
| Jacob Riis | Author of How the Other Half Lives; exposed tenement housing conditions |
| Robert M. LaFollette | Aggressive WI politician who was the face of the Progressive party |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Fought for women's rights and wrote the Declaration of Sentiments |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | His assassination triggered the start of WWI |
| Woodrow Wilson | President who wrote the 14 Points Peace Plan and created the Federal Reserve |
| John C. Calhoun | Not an answer on this test!! |
| Telephone | Invention that drastically changed communication and created demand for operators |