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The Progressive Era
The Progressive Era movement: Terms/people/and rights
| Key Concept | Definition |
|---|---|
| NAACP | Civil rights organization; fought against voting restrictions and segregation laws |
| Muckraker | Journalists who exposes corruption |
| Prohibition | Banning of alcohol |
| Suffrage | The right to vote |
| Square Deal | Roosevelt's progressive plan for the United States |
| Conservationist | Preserving wild life and forest |
| Trust Busting | Roosevelt's nickname for breaking up trusts and monopolies |
| Bull Moose Party | Comes from Roosevelt saying "I'm as strong as a Bull Moose" |
| Women's Christian Temperance Union | Fought for Prohibition laws |
| Social Gospel Movement | Religious movement that tried to help solve Americans Problems |
| 4 Goals of Progressivism | Protecting social welfare, promoting moral improvement, creating economic reform, fostering efficiency |
| Settlement House (Hull House) | House that offered food, child care, job training, and health care |
| W.E.B DuBois | Civil Rights Activist who graduated from Harvard; Wanted Rights immediately for African Americans |
| Booker T. Washington | Civil Rights Activist that believed that African Americans should prove their worth by hard work |
| Uption Sinclair | Muckraker who wrote "The Jungle" (exposes meat packaging businesses) |
| Edward Bellamy | Utopian novel "Looking Backwards" |
| Ida Tarbell | "The History of Standard Oil" |
| Jacob Riis | "How the Other Half Lives" (Exposes Poverty) |
| Florence Kelley | Fought ti create child labor laws and laws limiting women to a ten hour work day |
| Mother Jones | Prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist |
| Robert M. LaFollette | Represented Wisconsin in both chambers of congress |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 1st Progressive President: Conservation, Trust busting, Meat Inspection Act, Food and Drug Act |
| William Taft | 2nd Progressive President: Broke up more trusts than T. Roosevelt, Payne Aldrich Tariff |
| Woodrow Wilson | 3rd Progressive President: Created the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Reserve |
| Susan B. Anthony | Advocate for women suffrage (Formed the NAWSA) |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Advocate for women suffrage (Formed the NAWSA) |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | Campaigned for the 19th Amendment |
| Jane Addams | Founded the Hull House |
| Carrie Nation | Opposed alcohol before the prohibition of it |
| Meat Inspection Act | Strict cleanliness requirements for meat packers ("The Jungle") |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | Required truthful labeling of food and medicines |
| Hepburn Act | Intended to give power to the interstate commerce commission to regulate railroad shipping rates |
| Clayton Anti-Trust Act | Limit the power of trusts and monopolies |
| 16th Amendment | Federal Income Tax |
| 17th Amendment | Direct Election of Senators |
| 18th Amendment | Banning of Alcohol |
| 19th Amendment | Women's Right to Vote |
| 21th Amendment | Unbanning of Alcohol |
| Federal Trade Commission (FTC) | Agency who investigates businesses to prevent monopolies and trusts |
| Federal Reserve Act/System | Divided the nation into 12 districts with a central bank in each district to issue out paper currency and prevent other banks from closing |
| Children's Bureau/Dept. of Labor | Oversee children's welfare |
| U.S. Forest Service/National Park Service | Conserve forests and nature |
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