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Progressive Era
Progressive Era Test Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Progressive Era- | The period of US history from the 1890s to the 1920s is usually referred to as the Progressive Era, an era of intense social and political reform aimed at making progress toward a better society. |
| Political Changes- | Progressives were interested in establishing such policies as civil service reform, food safety laws, and increased political rights for women and U.S. workers. |
| Reform Movement- | A reform movement of reformism is a type of social movement that aims to bring a social or also a political system closer to the community's ideal. |
| Amendment 16- | gives the federal government the right to impose and collect income taxes. |
| Amendment 17 | The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. |
| Amendment 18- | prohibited the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors" (alcohol) |
| Amendment 19- | The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. |
| Amendment 21 | -Took off ban of Alcohol |
| How Gov officials respond to voters- | |
| Third party candidate- | |
| Splitting democrat/republican party- | |
| Democratic process to make change- | |
| Ida Wells- | African American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She also fought for woman suffrage. |
| Web Dubois- | was a civil rights activist who led the Niagara Movement and later helped form the NAACP. |
| Upton Sinclair- | American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for Governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. |
| Susan B Anthony- | American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement |
| Jane Adams- | settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, and author. She was an important leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States and advocated for world peace. |
| Francis Willard- | was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1879 |
| John Muir- | was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States of America. |
| NAACP- | The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans |
| Interstate Commerce Commission- | was a regulatory agency in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 |
| Sherman Antitrust- | is a United States antitrust law which prescribes the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce. |
| Pure Food/Drug Act- | was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws |
| Interstate Commerce Commission- | was a regulatory agency in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. |
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