Amendments
What did the 21st amendment do?
Revoked prohibition.
A collection of different ideas and actions towards fixing the problems within American society to give power back to the people and not big business.
What is progressivism?
Teddy Roosevelt's reforms were known as this.
What is the Square Deal?
This president was a conservationist and established the US Forest Service and National Parks.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
The most common job for woman in the mid-1800s.
What is a servant?
What did the 19th amendment do?
Gave women the right to vote.
Another name for a journalist who investigated social conditions and political corruption.
What was a muckraker?
The agency given power to fight unfair business practices.
What is the Federal Trade Commission?
Carrie Chapman Catt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and this woman were long-term fighters for women's suffrage.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
The name of the political party started by Teddy Roosevelt.
What is the Bull Moose Party?
What did the 18th amendment do?
It started prohibition, or the banning of alcoholic beverages in the us.
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
Child labor bans were deemed unconstitutional by this group?
The people who wanted to ban the sale of alcohol in the United States.
Who are prohibitionists?
The 16th Amendment established a federal income tax to make up revenue from decreasing land sales and this tax on imported goods.
What are tariffs?
What did the 17th amendment do?
Made the direct election of senators.
The Pure Food and Drug Act required this on food and advertised medicine.
What are truthful labels?
This changed the way banks were organized and became known as the Bankers' Bank.
What is the Federal Reserve System?
This progressive era president supported economic reform, but lost reelection in 1912 because he failed to unify the Republican Party?
Who is William Taft?
The assembly line, utilized by Henry Ford led to an increase in turnover, increase in wages, and a decrease in this.
What are daily work hours?
What did the 16th amendment do?
Created income tax on all US citizens.
A law that starts with the people and not the government.
What is an initiative?
He is considered the last of the progressive presidents.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
She fought to improve the lives of women and children.
Who is Florence Kelley?
This group's main goal is for racial equality.
What is the NAACP?