Progressive Movement

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progressive movement

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>The main goal of the Progressive movement was purification of government, as Progressives tried to expose and undercut political machines and bosses.
> many of progressives supported prohibition to destroy the political power of local bosses based in saloons.

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john dewey

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> October 20, 1859- June 1, 1952
> was an a,American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform.
> he considered two fundamental elements schools and civil society as major topics needing attention and reconstruction to encourage experimental intelligence plurality.

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scientific management

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> was a theory that management analyzed and synthesized work-flows.
> its main objective was improving economic efficiency, especially labor productivity.

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Ida Tarbell

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November 5, 1857- January 6, 1944
> was an American teacher, author, and jouranalist.
> she was known as one of the leading muckrakers of the progressive era, work known in modern times as investigative journalism.
> became the first person to take standard oil.

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17th amendment

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> established direct election of the united states senate senators by popular vote. also alters the procedure for filling vaccines in the senate to be consistent with the method of election.

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theodore roosevelt

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>26th president of the united states ; founder of progressive party of 1912

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trust busting

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>law that promotes or maintains market competition by regulating anti-competetive conduct.

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elkins act

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>amended the interstate commerce act of 1887 and authorized the interstate commerce comissioin to iimpose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates and upon the shippers that accepted

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1. Hepburn Act

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> is a 1906 unites states federal law that gave the interstate commerce commission the power to set maximum railroad rates.

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2. The Jungle

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> a 1906 novel written by journalist Upton Sinclair.
>wrote the novel to point put the troubles of the working class and show the corruption of the American meatpacking.

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3. Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)

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. is an agency of the united states department of health and human services one of the united states federal executive departments.
> the FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health and regulation and supervision of food safety. tobacco products. dietary supplements. prescription and over the counter drugs, vaccines, and etc

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4. Meat Inspection Act

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> requires 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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5. Sixteenth Amendment

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> allows the congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the sates or basing it on census results.

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6. Eugene V. Debs

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. was an american union leader one of the founding members of the international labor union and the industrial workers of the world and several times the candidate of the socialist party of America for president of the united states,

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7. Federal Reserve Act (1914)

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> system of united states. it was created in 1913 with the enactment if the federal reserve act. largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly a serve panic 1907.

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8. 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 incipiency.

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9. 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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10. Niagara Movement

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> was a black civil rights oirgani=zation founded in 1905 by a group led by W.E.B Du bios and William, Monroe trotter. it was named for the mighty current of change the group wanted to effect and Niagara falls, which near where the first meeting took place in July 1905

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1. Booker t Washington

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american educator, author, orator, and political leader. also a 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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intellectual leader in the united states as sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, pan-African, author, and editor

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NAACP

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national association for the advancement of colored people was an organization in the united states formed in 1909 its mission is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and eliminate racial hatred and discrimination

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Alice Paul

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american suffragette and activist. along with lucy bruns and others and led a successful campaign fro woman's suffrage that resulted in th passage in the nineteenth amendment to the US constitution in 1920

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Carrie Chapman Catt

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womens suffrage leader who campaigned for the nineenth amendment to the united ststaes constitution which gave women the right to vote in 1920 and served as president of the national american woman suffrage association and was the founder of the league of women voters and the international alliance of women

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19th Amendment

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prohibits any united states citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. it ratified on august 18, 1920.

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League Of Women Voters

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founded by Carrie Chapman Catt during he last meeting of the national american woman suffrage association approximately six months before the nineteenth amendment to the united states constitution.