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Progressive Era
Social Studies 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| primaries | voters can choose their parties candidate for the next election |
| recall initiative | voters can remove an elected official during term |
| Gilded Age | "Gold lining"- lively, entertainment, but political corruption, high voter turnout |
| 16th Amendment | gave Congress the right to impose an income tax |
| referendum | allowed to vote the bill into law at next election (ends with the people) |
| Interstate Commerce Act | President Cleveland set up to get rid of rebates and pools |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Square Deal, for fair business and working people; set railroad rates |
| Square Deal | TRs plan that all have same opportunity to succeed |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | food and drug companies must list ingredients |
| 17th Amendment | direct election of senators |
| democratic republic | people elect representatives |
| William Taft | favored graduated income tax, safety rules, 8 hour workday, made conservationist angry |
| Federal Trade Commission | government can investigate businesses to make sure they aren't doing anything unfair to their competitors |
| Federal Reserve Act | controlled money and interest rates |
| New Freedom | tariff reform, banking reform and trust busting |
| Woodrow Wilson | Clayton Ant-trust Act, wanted fair and equal economy for all, |
| Clayton Anti-trust Act | prevents anti-competitive businesses |
| 18th Amendment | illegal to sell alcohol |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | took action against spoil system (corrupt politics) |
| James Garfield | was shot by Guiteau in a train station parking lot because he believed he deserved a government job |
| patronage | giving away of jobs |
| 19th Amendment | women can vote |
| Alice Paul | marched with British suffragists, jailed, hunger strikes- to vote |
| Booker T Washington | born in slavery, taught himself to read, started higher education for blacks |
| William Marcy Tweed | stole money from NYC |
| WEB Du Bois | NAACP- fight actively for equal rights |
| conservation | protect natural resources |
| Chester Arthur | passed Civil Service Act- exams for government jobs |
| Grover Cleveland | Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Commission- no pools and rebates |
| Sherman Anti-Trust Act | no trusts or businesses can limit competition |
| Republican party symbol | elephant |
| Tammany Hall | +the main political machine of the Democratic party, especially in NY |
| Meat Inspection Act | meat and plants were inspected for cleanliness and contamination |
| Underwood Tariff | +under Wilson- a law that lowered tariffs and reintroduces the federal income tax |
| Lincoln Steffens | McClure's Magazine- articles about public corruption |
| Jacob Riis | a muckraker (journalist) who showed slum life because of corruption (inadequate police, fire and sanitation) |
| Upton Sinclair | wrote a book about dirty meatpacking industry- led to Meat Inspection Act |
| Ida Tarbell | muckracker who wrote about big businesses (Standard Oil Company) |
| Eugene V Debs | +founder of the American Railway Union |
| Benjamin Harrison | signed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act as President- prohibiting businesses from destroying competition. Hard to regulate and often went against unions. |
| William McKinley | first progressive president; fined employers who fired workers who joined unions |
| Susan B Anthony | activist for women's suffrage |
| George Washington Carver | changed farming practices in the south |
| Charles Guiteau | shot President Garfield because he wanted to be awarded a government job. Garfield believed jobs should be earned (based on merit). |
| Leon Czolgosz | +assassinated President McKinley |
| prohibition | a rime when it was illegal to produce, sell and drink alcohol |
| Democratic party symbol | donkey |
| Where was most voting done during the early 1900's? | paper ballots and then voting machines 1910 |
| Who wrote "Up from Slavery" and established the Tuskegee Institute? | Booker T Washington |
| What organization did WED DuBois create? | NAACP |
| Gentlemans Agreement | President Roosevelt signed with Japan to lessen Japanese workers entering the country |
| Bull Moose Party | a 3rd Progressive party TR ran under when he lost nomination to Taft |
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