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Progressive movement

An early-20th-century reform movement seeking to return control of the government to the people, to restore economic opportunities, and to correct injustices in American life

Florence Kelley

Political activists, advocate for women, children


-helps pass Illinois factory act (1893) prohibiting child labor, limiting women's hours.

Prohibition

The banning of the manufacture, sale, and possession of alcoholic beverages.

Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

Woman's Christian Temperance Union spearheads prohibition crusade.

Muckraker

Journalists who expose corruption in politics, business

Lincoln Steffens / The Shame of Cities

The Shame of Cities is a book by Lincoln Steffens. Published in 1904, it is a collection of articles which Steffens had written for McClure's Magazine.

Scientific management

time and motion studies applied to workplace

Robert M. La Follette

Robert M. La Follette is 3-term governor, then senator of Wisconsin.

Initiative

bill proposed by people, not lawmakers, put on ballots.

Referendum

voters, not legislature, decide if initiative becomes law

Recall

voters remove elected official through early election

Sixteenth Amendment

Allows the congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the united states census.

Seventeenth Amendment

permits popular election of senators instead of state legislatures Selection.

Suffrage

the right to vote.

Susan B. Anthony

the proponent of national American woman suffrage associations

National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)

The merging of National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the National Association of Colored Women (NACW)

Upton Sinclair/ The Jungle

began research for a novel in 1904, his focus was the human condition in the stock-yards of Chicago./ The book was published in 1906, however, the book was sickening with the conditions of the meatpacking industry.

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt has sickly childhood, drives self in athletics. his ambitions rises him through the New York politics to become governor.Then later became president at the age of 42

Square Deal

Roosevelt's progressive reforms

Meat Inspection Act

Roosevelt pushes for Meat Inspection Act:
- dictates sanitary requirements
-creates federal meat inspection program

Pure Food and Drug Act

halts sale of contaminated food, medicine


-requires truth in labeling

Conservation/ John Muir

Roosevelt sets aside forest reserves, sanctuaries, national parks because he believes conservation part preservation, part development for public.

1902 Coal Strike

When 140,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania went on strike and demanded a 20 percent raise, a nine-hour workday, and the right to organize a union, and the mine operators refused to bargain.

Gifford Pinchot

Gifford Pinchot, 1905 was the first Chief of the united states forest service

William Howard Taft

1908, Republican William Howard Taft wins with Roosevelt's support

Bull Moose Party

Progressives form Bull Moose Party; nominate Roosevelt, call for:


- direct election of Senators


- more voter participation in government (initiative, referendum, recall)


-woman suffrage


-labor legislation, business controls

Woodrow Wilson

Wilson was lawyer, professor, president of Princeton, NJ governor




As president, focuses on trusts, tariffs, and high finance.

Carrie Chapman Catt

Head of National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), stresses organization, lobbying.




National Woman's Party aggressively pressures for suffrage amendment (picket White House)




Work of patriotic women in war effort influences polticians

Clayton Antitrust Act

stops companies buying stock to form monopoly . Unions not subject to antitrust laws

Ends injunctions against strikers unless threaten irreparable damage.

Federal Reserve System

new "watchdog" agency

- investigates regulatory violations
- requires periodic reports from corporations
- ends unfair business practices

Nineteenth Amendment

grants women right to vote.