Progressive Movement
Aimed to return control of the gov to the people to economic opportunities and to correct injustices in American life
Florence Kelly
Chief inspector for child labor in Illinois; became an advocate for improving the lives of women and children
Illinois Factory Act
Prohibited child labor and limited women's working hours
Prohibition
The banning of alcoholic beverages
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Spearheaded the crusade for prohibition; people entered saloons, singing and praying that saloonkeepers would stop selling alcohol
Frances Willard
President of women's temperance union; US women's rights and temperance activist
Anti-Saloon League
Members wanted to close saloons to cure society's problems about the consumption of alcohol
Carry Nation
Walked into Saloons scolding the customers, and using a hatchet to destroy liquor
Louis D. Brandeis
Focused on data produced by social scientists documenting the high costs of long working hours for both the individual and society
Robert LaFollette
His major target was the railroad industry; taxed railroad property at the same rate as other business property; set up a commission to regulate rates, and forbade railroads to issue free passes to state officials
National Child Labor Commitee
Set investigators to gather evidence of children working in harsh conditions; organized exhibitions with photographs and statistics to dramatize the children's plight
Keating Owen Act of 1916
Prohibited the transportation across state lines of goods produced with child labor
Initiative
Position to get a question on the ballot ; A procedure can be originated by people instead of lawmakers
Referendum
Procedure which a proposed legislative measure can be submitted to a vote of the people
Recall
Removing public officials from office
17th Amendment
provides for the election of U.S. senators by the people rather than by state legislatures
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
a factory fire that killed 146 workers trapped in the building; led to new safety standard laws
Susan B. Anthony
social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation
Suffrage
The right to vote
National American Women Suffrage Association
Organization formed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others to promote the vote for women
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Founder of national women suffrage association
Square Deal
President Roosevelt's program of progressive reforms designed to protect the common people against big business
Northern Securities Company
A railroad monopoly formed by J.P. Morgan and James J. Hill which violated Sherman Antitrust Act
Elkins and Hepburn Acts
Sought to restore some regulatory authority to the government over railroad rates
Meat Inspection Act
1906 - Laid down binding rules for sanitary meat packing and government inspection of meat products crossing state lines.
Pure Food and Drug Act
Halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling
conservation
Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment
Newlands Act
established the precedent that the federal government would manage the precious water resources of the West
Booker T. Washington
Head of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute; most respected African American by whites; faced opposition from WEB Du Bois
Henry Demarest Lloyd
Who wrote Wealth against Commonwealth
Lincoln Steffens
Who wrote "Shame of the Cities
Ida Tarbell
Who wrote "History of Standard Oil Company
John Sparago
Who wrote "The Bitter Cry of the Children
Jacob Riis
Who wrote "How the Other Half Lives
David Phillips
Who wrote "Treason of the Senate
Upton Sinclair
Who wrote "The Jungle