LD PROGRESSIVE ERA - SOCIAL STUDIES
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| PROGRESSIVE | A person who wants to improve society (social, economic, and political). Evolve/Improve
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| 1876 - 1914 | Progressive Era Time Period
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| MUCKRAKER | Journalist who seeks to expose a problem in society.
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| CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION | Takes tests for many government jobs (based on merit-ability) - Pendleton Act.
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| SHERMAN ANTI-TRUST ACT | Made trusts/monopolies illegal
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| INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION | Regulated Railroad's (made pooling, illegal)
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| REPLACE CORRUPT POLITICIANS | Because they traded jobs for bribes, cheated taxpayers, popular with immigrants (traded votes for necessities).
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| MEAT INSPECTION ACT | Forced meat packers to open their doors to government inspectors.
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| MEAT INSPECTION ACT | In reaction to The Jungle- Upton Sinclair
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| CONSERVATION | Protection of Natural resources - Some areas left as wilderness, lumber companies (replace trees), & limit mining.
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| CREATION OF NATIONAL PARKS | An area set aside and run by the Federal government
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| 19TH AMENDMENT | Women gained the right to vote (suffrage). Result of WWI - 1920
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| 18TH AMENDMENT | Illegal to make, sell, or transport alcohol - 1919 (Prohibition)
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| REPEAL OF 18TH AMENDMENT | 21st Amendment (1933)
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| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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| NAACP | Tried to gain rights for African Americans (WEB Dubois, Booker T. Washington)
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| GRADUATED INCOME TAX | Taxes people from different income levels at different rates.
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| 16TH AMENDMENT | Gave Congress the power to improve a federal income tax.
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| PRIMARY | Voters select candidates
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| INITIATIVE | Voters can propose bills too
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| REFERENDUM | Voters can vote on certain bills directly (often local issues).
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| RECALL | Voters can remove elected officials from office (rare).
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| 17TH AMENDMENT | Provides for the direct election of U.S. Senators (2 per state)
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| THEODORE ROOSEVELT | Set aside 170,000 acres of national parkland (Conservation)
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| THEODORE ROOSEVELT | Launch the break-up of Rockfeller's Standard Oil Company.
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| THEODORE ROOSEVELT | Passed Food and Drug Act (FDA) and Meat Inspection Act (1906).
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| THEODORE ROOSEVELT | 1901-1910
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| WOODROW WILSON | 1913-1921
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| WOODROW WILSON | Control big businesses
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| WOODROW WILSON | Improved living conditions
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| WOODROW WILSON | Established a system of Federal Reserve banks to regulate money
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