Progressive Movement

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Progressive Movement

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Was an effort to cure many of the ills of American society that had developed during the great spurt of industrial growth in the last quarter of the 19th century.

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John Dewey

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An American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform.

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scientific Management

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A theory of management that analyzed and synthesized workflows. Its main objective was improving economic efficiency, especially labor productivity.

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Ida Tarbell

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an American teacher, author and journalist. She was known as one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era, work known in modern times as "investigative journalism".

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Seventeenth amendment

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the United States Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote.

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Theodore Roosevelt

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he 26th President of the United States (1901-1909). He is noted for his energetic personality, range of interests and achievements, leadership of the Progressive Movement, and his "cowboy" image and robust masculinity.

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Trust busting

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Most Republicans viewed their election victory in 1900 as an endorsement of the party’s policies toward business. Theodore Roosevelt, who became president in September 1901

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Elkins Act

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is a 1903 United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887.

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Hepburn act

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is a 1906 United States federal law that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to set maximum railroad rates. This led to the discontinuation of free passes to loyal shippers.

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the jungle

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a 1906 novel written by journalist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to point out the troubles of the working class and to show the corruption of the American meatpacking industry during the early-20th century.

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Pure Food and Drug Act

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The United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines.

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Meat infection Act

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The United States Department of Agriculture to inspect all cattle, sheep, goats, and horses when slaughtered and processed into products for human consumption

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Sixteenth amendment

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To the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results.

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Eugene V. debs

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An American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World

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Federal Resene Act919140

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Is the Act of Congress that created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, and granted it the legal authority to issue legal tender.

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Clayton Anti Trust

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was enacted in the United States to add further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime by seeking to prevent anti competitive practices in their incipience.

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Federal Trade Commission (1914)

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started the Federal Trade Commission, a bipartisan body of five members appointed by the President of the United States for seven year terms.

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Niagara Movement

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a black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group led by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter.

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Booker t Washington

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an American educator, author, orator, and political leader. He was the dominant figure in the African American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915.

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W.E. B Dubois

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an intellectual leader in the United States as sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor.

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NAACP

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909.

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Alice Paul

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an American suffragette and activist. she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.

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Carrie Chapman Catt

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a women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920.

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19th Amendment

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the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920.

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League Of Women Voters

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an American political organization founded in 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt during the last meeting of the National American Woman Suffrage Association