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32 Cards in this Set
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Progressive movement |
Aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct injustices in American life. |
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Florence Kelley |
Advocate for improving the lives of women and children. |
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Prohibition |
Banning of alcoholic beverages. |
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Muckrakers |
Journalists who wrote about corrupt side of business in magazines. |
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Scientific management |
Studies to see just how quickly each task could be performed. |
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Robert M La Follette |
Republican leader |
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Initiative |
Bill made by people instead of law makers. |
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Referendum |
Vote on initiative |
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Recall |
Enabled voters to remove public officials from elected positions. |
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17th amendment |
Direct election of senators |
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NACW |
National Association of colored women 1896 |
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Susan B Anthony |
Leading proponent of women’s sufferage |
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Sufferage |
Right to vote |
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NAWSA |
United with NACW in 1890 |
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Upton Sinclair |
Wrote “the jungle” |
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The jungle |
Sinclair’s book about conditions in the meatpacking industry. |
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Theodore Roosevelt |
President. Wanted to create better conditions for food industries |
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Square deal |
Used to describe various progressive reforms (by Roosevelt) |
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Meat Inspection Act |
Dictated strict cleanliness requirements for meat packing and created program for meat inspectors |
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Pure Food and Drug Act |
Halted sale of contaminated foods/medicines and called for truth in labeling |
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Conservation |
Some wilderness areas would be preserved while others would be developed |
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NAACP |
National Association for Advanced Colored People. Wanted full equality amount races. |
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Glifford Pinchot |
Head of US Forest Service under Roosevelt |
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William Taft |
1908 secretary of war for Roosevelt |
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Payne Aldrich Tariff |
Compromise that moderated high rates of Aldrich Bill |
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Bull Moose Party |
Progressive party of Theodore Roosevelt |
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Woodrow Wilson |
1912 president (gov from New Jersey) |
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Carrie Chapman Catt |
1916 NAWSA president |
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Clayton Antitrust Act |
Sought to strengthen Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 |
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Federal Trade Commision (FTC) |
2nd major antitrust measure 1914 |
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Federal Reserve System |
1923 transfer funds to member banks in trouble |
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19th amendment |
Women have right to vote |
