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03 Progressive Era

Terms from US History Since 1877

TermDefinition
Susan B. Anthony She was one of the leaders of the women's rights movement and temperance movements, advocated the 19th amendment and arrested for trying to vote.
Anti-Trust Acts These acts, led by Theodore Roosevelt, focused on dissolving unfair business consolidations or monopolies.
W.E.B. DuBois This Progressive leader is credited with starting the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People); disagreed with the gradual approach to civil rights.
Eighteenth Amendment This amendment was passed in 1919 to eliminate the consumption, manufacture and sale of alcohol.
Federal Reserve Act This act, passed in 1913 by Wilson, established the central banking system through 12 central banks to serve as the "banker's banks" and manage the money supply.
Meat Inspection Act This act (inspired by The Jungle) was passed in 1906 to require truthful labeling products to protect consumers.
Muckrakers Name for those investigative journalists who exposed abuses of industry, corrupt government and unregulated business & demanded reform.
National Park System This system was established by Theodore Roosevelt under the Newlands Reclamation Act to preserve the natural scenery and wildlife for the American people. scenery and wildlife for the American people.
Nineteenth Amendment This amendment was ratified in 1920 and granted women the right to vote.
Progressives This party included mostly middle class citizens who felt threatened by the rise of big business. Their platform included political reforms, worker conditions and women's rights.
Pure Food and Drug Act This act regulated the preparation of foods and the sale of medicines.
Upton Sinclair He was the author of The Jungle exposing the horrible conditions of the meat-packing industry that led to government regulations like the Meat Inspection Act.
Sixteenth Amendment This amendment was ratified 1913 creating a graduated income tax; allowed the federal government to lower tariffs and reintroduce competition into the US market
Ida B. Wells During the Progressive Era, she began an anti-lynching campaign. She would later go on to became one of the founders of the NAACP and one of the first African American women to run for public office.
Jim Crow Laws Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites
Plessy v. Ferguson a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal known as "separate but equal"
Thirteenth Amendment The constitutional amendment ratified after the Civil War that forbade slavery and involuntary servitude except as a punishment for a crime.
Fourteenth Amendment A constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians. Passed after the Civil War to establish citizenship for freed slaves.
Fifteenth Amendment The constitutional amendment adopted in 1870 to extend suffrage to African American men (women of all races still excluded), undermined by poll taxes and literacy tests that targeted African Americans.
Booker T. Washington Founder of the Tuskegee Institute; believed in a gradual approach to racial equality gained through economic advancement
NAACP Interracial organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination and to achieve political and civil rights for African Americans.
Marcus Garvey African American leader during the 1920s who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated mass migration of African Americans back to Africa. Was deported to Jamaica in 1927.
Suffrage the right to vote, also called the elective franchise, the opposite of disenfranchisement
lynching putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law
Tariff A tax on imported goods, designed to encourage consumers to buy cheaper domestic goods, brings in revenue for the federal government
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