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History Progressives
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| four goals of progressivism | economic reform, social welfare, foster efficiency, moral improvement |
| How did the Progressives clean up government | reform--industries, businesses, rights of people in working, making people safer, city safer |
| Progressive efforts social welfare | YMCA, helped people in need, social gospel movement, settlement houses |
| Progressive efforts-economic reform | capitalism, socialism, workers were not happy-make them happy,muckrakers |
| Progressive efforts-foster efficiency | Taylorism (simpler parts) |
| Progressive efforts-moral improvement | prohibition, Susan b Anthony, suffrage |
| Florence Kelley | social reformer |
| Prohibition | making the sale or use of alcohol illegal |
| muckrakers | writers and journalists fought to expose corruption in society-- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair-Meat Industry |
| Scientific Management | efficiency |
| Progressive Era | natural result of the corruption and decay of the Gilded Age; protections for the common man; New Deal |
| Robert LaFollette | Progressive Wisconsin governor and senator |
| initiative | a way for people to propose laws directly |
| referendum | a way for people to approve changes in laws by a vote |
| recall | a vote on whether to remove a public office from office |
| 17th Amendment | amendment providing for senators to be elected directly |
| 4 ways that American could participate in government | vote, rebel, conserve energy, industry/jobs |
| woman in the workforce | suffrage-Susan B Anthony led- woman to fight for jobs, voting, etc, WWI helped aide in woman working in industry |
| suffrage | the right to vote a joe of woman reformers |
| Susan B Anthony | Leader of the suffrage movement, helped to define the movement and it's goals |
| NAWSA | National American Woman Suffrage founded in 1890, to help woman win the right to vote |
| Social Gospel Movement to 19th Amendment | gave woman the right rebel and speak out-right to vote and equal rights in the workforce |
| Teddy Roosevelt | President 1901-1903; created reforms-square deal, NCAA, conservationists, supported civil rights, break the trusts-supported the people, was not respected, Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food/Drug Act |
| The Jungle | A book that exposed that exposed meat packing industry-Upton Sinclair |
| Square Deal | Teddy's program of progressive reforms |
| trust busting | businesses have to stop and slow down |
| Coal Strike | would not work due to the conditions |
| Meat Inspection Act | Law reforming meatpacking conditions |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | Law to stop the sale of unclean food and drugs |
| NAACP | national association for the advancement of colored people founded to work for racial equality |
| Taft Presidency | 27th President; diff from Teddy-did bust 90 Trusts-better trust buster |
| Payne Aldrich Tariff | lower tariffs on imported goods |
| Gifford Pinchot | Head of US forest service under Teddy who believed that it was possible to make use of natural resources while conserving them |
| Bull Moose Party | nickname for the Progressive Party which was formed to support Teddy |
| Woodrwo Wilson | Winner of the 1912 presidential election |
| Election of 1912 | Wilson v Roosevelt-- |
| Woodrow Wilson-reforms | Clayton AntiTrust Act, Federal Trade Commission, Federal Reserve System |
| Clayton Anti trust act | law that weakened monopolies and upheld the rights of unions and farm organizations |
| FTC | Federal trade commission - an agency set up to investigate businesses to help enforce laws |
| Federal Reserve system | national banking system |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | President of the NAWSA led the campaign for woman suffrage during Wilson's administration |
| 19th Amendment | gave woman to vote |