Chapter 17 History

Progressive Movement

This included a series of reform efforts that aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct injustices in American life.

Florence Kelley

This progressive championed the rights of women and children by moving into a settlement house, working as the chief inspector of Factories for Illinois, and helping to win passage of the Illinois Factory Act.

Prohibition

Members of the Womans Christian Temperance Union fought for this cause by entering saloons, singing, praying, and asking saloonkeeper to stop selling alcohol.

Muckracker

This is a term used to describe a journalist who exposed government abuses and big business corruption to the readers of mass circulation magazines and newspapers.

Scientific management

This was the idea that efficiency could be improved by breaking manufacturing tasks into simpler parts.

Scientific management

This was one of the inspirations for the creating on the assembly line at Ford Motor Company.

Robert M. La Follette

This reform governor and U.S senator from Wisconsin made the railroad industry a major target.

Referendum

this is a vote on initiative

recall

this enabled voters to remove public officials from elected positions by forcing them to face an election before the end of their term if enough voters requested it.

Seventeenth Amendment

This allowed for the popular, or direct, election of U.S Senators.

Progressive Movement

aimed to return control of the government to the people, restore economic opportunities, and correct injustices in American life.

Salvation Army

fed poor people in soup kitchens, cared for children in nurseries, and sent "slum brigades" to instruct poor immigrants in middle-class values of hard work and temperance.

Florence Kelley

became an advocate for improving the lives of women and children. She was appointed chief inspector of factories for Illinois after she had helped to win passage of the Illinois Factory Act in 1893.

Illinois Factory Act

this act prohibited child labor and limited women's working hours.

Prohibition

the banning of alcoholic beverages.

Womens Christian Temperance Union

became the largest women's group in the nations history.

socialism

Weary of capitalism, some americans, especially workers, favored ___________

Eugene V. Debs

Socialist leader who helped organize the socialist party in 1901

Frederick Winslow Taylor

this person began using time and motion studies tom improve efficiency by breaking manufacturing tasks into simpler parts.

scientific management

studies to see just how quickly each task could be performed.

railroad

Robert M. Follette's major target of regulation was the _______ industry.

Keating-Owen Act

prohibited the transportation across state lines of goods produced with child labor.

Muller v. Oregon

During this court case Florence Kelly and Josephine Goldmark persuasively argued that poor working women were much more economically insecure that large corporations.

Muller v. Oregon

this court case won a 10 hour work day for women.

Bunting v. Oregon

this court case would later win a 10 hour work day. for men as well as women.

William S. U'Ren

this person prompted his state of oregon to adopt the secret ballot, the initiative, the referendum, and the recall.

initiative

a bill originated by the people rather that lawmakers - on the ballot.

referendum

a vote on the initiative

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

efforts for better workers conditions and wages grew after 146 workers, mostly women and children, died in a fire at the _________ in New York.

Vassar

_______ College accepted its first student in 1865.

Sophia Smith

Smith college founder

National Association of Colored Women

In 1896, African-American women founded the _________________ by merging two earlier organizations.

Josephine Ruffin

This person identified the mission of the African-American women's club movement as "the moral education of the race with which we are identified.

Susan B. Anthony

was a leading proponent of women suffrage

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Founded the National Women Suffrage Association

Square Deal

Roosevelt worked to give the citizens a ____________

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

___________ was a muckraking journalist who exposed the terrible conditions of the meatpacking industry in his 1906 book __________

McKinley

Theodore Roosevelt became president after the assassination of

Rough Riders

Teddy Roosevelt ushed for war against Spain in 1898 and won national attention with his Calvary brigade, the ____________

Rosevelt

The youngest president to ever be elected was

bully pulpit

He saw the presidency as a _____________, from which he could influence the news and media and shape legislation.

Square Deal

Roosevelt's program of progressive reforms designed to protect them from big businesses.

trust

legal bodies created to hold stock in many companies

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Roosevelt used the _________ to bust many trusts.

Interstate Commerce Act

prohibited wealthy railroad owners from colluding to fix high prices by dividing the business in a given area.

Elkins Act

Congress passed the ________ in 1903, which made it illegal for railroad officials to give, and shippers to receive, rebates for using particular railroads.

Hepburn Act

strictly limited to distribution of free RR passes, a common form of bribery. It also gave the ICC power to set maximum railroad rates.

Meat Inspection Act

dictated strict cleanliness requirements for meat packers and created the program of federal meat inspection that was in use until it was replaced by more sophisticated techniques in the 1990s.

Pure food and Drug Act

halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling.

Conservation

the protection of some wilderness areas and the development of others for the common good

John Muir

a naturalist and writer who persuaded the president to set aside 148 million acres of forest reserves.

Gifford Pinchot

The president named _____________ as head of U.S Forest service.

Gone with the Wind

Margret Mitchell's famous novel

Booker T. Washington

Roosevelt invited ______________ to the White House as a symbolic gesture.

NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

At a Niagara Falls convention in 1909, W.E.B Du Bois and others founded the ____________

William Howard Taft

handpicked by Roosevelt to run for president in 1908 to run against William Jennings Bryan.

lowering tariffs.

Taft had campaigned on a platform of ___________

Payne-Aldrich Act

passed by Taft, was a set of tax regulations, enacted by Congress in 1909, that failed to significantly reduce tariffs on manufactured goods-it would increase many rates.

progressivism movement

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

Republican Party.

Taft's continuous actions made it impossible for him to hold together the two wings of the ___________

Bull Moose Party

led by Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt boasted that he was "as strong as a bull moose.

Republican Progressives

The bull moose party was made up of

Bull Moose Party

The Progressive party became known as the _______

Woodrow Wilson

a Democrat reformer and governor of New Jersey, won the presidential election of 1912

Clayton Anti-Trust Act

1914 sought to strengthen the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.

Clayton Anti-Trust Act

Intended to prevent the creation of monopolies by making it illegal to establish trusts that interfered with free trade.

FTC (Federal Trade Commission)

This "watchdog" agency was given the power to investigate possible violations of regulatory statutes, to require periodic reports from corporations, and to put an end to a number of unfair business practices.

16th amendment

1913 legalized a graduated income tax, which provided revenue by taxing individual earnings and corporate profits.

Federal Reserve Act of 1913

divided the nation into 12 districts and established a regional central bank in each of them.

Carrie Chapman Catt

NAWSA's president and successor to Susan B. Anthony, organized the Women's Suffrage Party

19th amendment

granting women the right to vote. 72 years after women had first convened and demanded the vote at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848.