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Chapter 20
Progressive Era
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Progressive Movement | A major one was the widespread poverty present in the US in the late 1800s and the massive gap between the very rich and the very poor |
| Social Gospel Movement | religious side of Progressivism was based on the moral and ethical demand that Christians should help the poor in order tiocreate God's Kingdom on earth |
| Jane Addams- Hull Movement | Social reformer who worked to improve the lives of the working class. In 1889 she founded Hull House in Chicago, the first private social welfare agency in the U.S., to assist the poor, combat juvenile delinquency, and help immigrants learn to speak Engli |
| Direct Democracy Movement | A form of democracy in which the poeple themselves, rather than elected representatives, determine the laws and policies by which they are governed |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911 | one of the worst industrial disasters in US history - 147 garment workers (123 women and girls)died when they could not escape from the upper stories of the high-rise factory. Fire safety rules soon followed. |
| Women's Suffrage movement- Alice Paul | One of the most prominent activists of the 20th-century women's rights movement. An outspoken suffragist and feminist, she tirelessly led the charge for women's suffrage and equal rights in the United States; practiced civil disobedience to achieve what m |
| Temperance Movement | A social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages led primarily by women. |
| Jacob Riis - How the Other Half Lives | One of the early muckrakers - He exposed the overcrowded conditions of tenement houses and slums in New York City |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 26th President who accomplished a lot in his lifetime; known for his progressive style and is known as one of the most conservative presidents; major national leader of the Progressive Movement |
| Meat Inspection Act of 1906 | Decreed that preparation of meat shipped over state lines would be subject to federal inspection. |
| Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 | Forbade the manufacture or sale of mislabeled or adulterated food or drugs, it gave the government broad powers to ensure the safety and efficacy of drugs in order to abolish the "patent" drug trade. Still in existence as the FDA. |
| Election of 1912 | By 1912 the Republican Party had changed. TR's progressive views no longer fit. Roosevelt lost the nomination to Taft. This election was one of the most significant. It marks the change in both Republican and Democratic Parties• Republicans business/conse |
| Federal Reserve Act of 1913 | The law that established the Federal Reserve System as the central bank of the United States. |
| Muckraking Journalism | Another force pushing Progressive reforms was a wave of investigative journalism |
| Walter Rausechenbusch | A major leader in the Social Gospel Movement, he asserted his 1907 book Christianity and the Social Crisis that the Christian CHurch must embrace the social aims of Jesus |
| Settlement House Movement | Creation of places that offered social services to urban poor - often food, shelter, and basic higher education - Hull House was the most famous; Social movement designed to get the rich and poor in society to live more closely together. |
| Robert M. La Follette - Wisconsin Idea | A Republican governor who created a nonpartisan state government that would become a laboratory for democracy -- an idea of a more efficient government run by experts; government power should focus on equal opportunity and social justice to improve the li |
| Frederick Taylor - Taylorism | Created management concept aimed to cut waste and improve productivity in industry by breaking down tasks into small, repetitive elements, creating performance, particularly timed performance, measurements for workers, and tying that performance to worker |
| Nineteenth Amendment | 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 |
| Eighteenth Amendment - Prohibition | declared the production, transport and sale of intoxicating liquors illegal, although it did not outlaw the actual consumption of alcohol. |
| Progressive Income Tax - 16th Amendment | The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. |
| Square Deal Programs - the 3 C's | Greater government CONTROL over large corporations New Regulations to protect CONSUMERS against contaminated food and Medicine CONSERVATION of natural resources |
| Upton Sinclair - The Jungle | Most Significant muckraking author- this book was the result of undercover research in the slaughterhouse and meatpacking industries in chicago, essentially exposing filth in production of meat |
| William Howard Taft | (1908-1912), was endorsed by Roosevelt because he pledged to carry on progressive program, then he didn't appoint any Progressives to the Cabinet, ran for re-election in 1912 but lost to Wilson |
| Woodrow Wilson | 28th President of the United States |
| TR's New Nationalism Program | Included a minimum wage, social security disability insurance, an end to child labor, voting rights for women, unemployment insurance,and campaign finance reform - a liberal progressive program |
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