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Lessons 17 & 18
The Progressive Era
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| progressives | a member of a social and political movement of the early 1900s committed to improving conditions in American life |
| National Child Labor Committee | a progressive organization formed in 1904 to promote laws restricting or banning child labor |
| NAACP | a group formed in 1909 to fight through the courts to end segregation and ensure that African American men could exercise voting rights under the Fifteenth Amendment |
| National American Woman Suffrage Association | a group formed by leading suffragists in the late 1800s to organize the women's suffrage movement |
| Hull House | the first settlement house in Chicago, founded by Jane Addams |
| activists | a person dedicated to the cause of reform and prepared to use political action toward that goal |
| Eighteenth Amendment | a constitutional change ratified in 1919 prohibiting the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages; repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933 |
| Federal Reserve System | the central banking authority of the United States, which manages the nation's money supply |
| New Freedom | President Woodrow Wilson's reform program that focused on transferring power from the trusts to small businesses and average citizens, restricting corporate influence, and reducing corruption in the federal government |
| Nineteenth Amendment | a constitutional change ratified in 1920 declaring that women have the right to vote in state and national elections |
| prohibition | a ban on the production and sale of alcoholic beverages |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | a 1906 federal law that established the Food and Drug Administration to test and approve drugs before they go to market |
| Seventeenth Amendment | a constitutional change ratified in 1913 requiring the direct election of senators by popular vote |
| Sixteenth Amendment | a constitutional change ratified in 1913 allowing the federal government to impose an income tax |
| Square Deal | President Theodore Roosevelt's reform program, focused on regulating big business, protecting workers and consumers, and preserving the environment |
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