Law establishing regulation of food and drug items for public consumption
Pure food and drug Act
Term applied to the breaking up of monopolies
Trust Busting
Form of city government which called for the division of responsibility among five to seven elected officials
City Commission
Form of city government which called for a hired professional administrator to run the city
City manager
Established the first income tax
Underwood Tarriff
Established the constitutionality of a personal income tax
16th ademedment
Created during Wilson's administration this was to end unfair business practices in interstate commerce
Federal Trade Commission
Law designed to regulate railroads and establish maximum rates
Elkins Act
Allowed voters to decide their party's nomination for political office
Direct Primary
Anti-trust law which also recognized labor unions
Clayton Anti-trust Act
The first black civil rights organization
NAACP
Roosevelt's independent party in the election of 1912
Bullmoose Party
Reform party of the last part of the 1800's which began as a farmer's party and set much of the agenda for the Progressives
Populist
First law passed designed to break up monopolies and regulate trusts and big business
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Was responsible for the case Muller v. Oregon
Florence Kelley
Founder of the NAACP
Web DuBois
Author of the Jungle
Upton Sinclair
Known as the "Trust Buster
Teddy Roosevelt
Taft's Secretary of the Interior who advocated private development of federal reserves
Richard Ballinger
Conservationist under Taft's administration who argued for conservation of natural resources
Gifford Pinchot
Founder of the American Socialist Party
Eugene V. Debs
Preservationist who also founded the Sierra Club
John Muir
Founder of the National American Womens Suffrage Association
Carrie Chapman Catt
Wrote The History Of Standard Oil which helped lead to its breakup
Ida Tarbell
Progressive president elected in 1912
Woodrow Wilson
Wisconsin governor who helped lead lead the Progressive movement
Robert La Follette
Elected president in 1908, many Progressives became disappointed in his actions
William Howard Taft
Founder of the American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Progressive mayor of Toledo, Ohio who reformed its government
Samuel Jones
Court case which established the 10 hour workday for women
Mueller v. Oregon
Law created in response to the JUNGE which called for quality standards in the meat packing industry
Meat inspection Act
Railroad conglomerate controlled controlled controlled by J.P. Morgan that was broken up by Roosevelt
Northern Securities Company
Gave voters the power to create laws
initiative
Gave voters the power to remove existing laws
referendum
Gave voters the power to remove elected officials
recall
First mine employees union
United mine workers union
Term for investigative reporters in the Progressive Era
Muckrakers
Law which provided funds for land restoration and irrigation projects in the West
Newlands Reclamation Act
This law made the giving of railroad rates illegal
Hepburn Act
The National banking system created in 1913 which created "banker's banks".
Federal Reserve System