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return control of the government to the people, restore economic opportunities, and correct injustices in American life
progressive movement
advocate for improving the lives of women and children
Florence Kelley
banning of alcoholic beverages
prohibition
journalists that wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulation magazines
muckrakers
application of scientific principles to improve the workplace
scientific management
Led the movement to drive corporations out of politics and treat them the same way other people are treated. Main target was the railroad
Robert M. La Follette
procedure by which legislative measure can be originated by people rather than lawmakers
initiative
proposed legislative measure can be submitted to a vote of the people
referendum
procedure for removing public official from office by vote of the people
recall
amendment adopted in 1913 that provides election of U.S. senators by the people not state legislatures
Seventeenth Amendment
National Organization of Colored Women--organized in 1896
NACW
the right to vote
suffrage
Susan B. Anthony
National American Woman Suffrage Association
NAWSA
focused on improving human condition in the stockyards of Chicago, wrote the novel The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
portrayed the terrible conditions in the American meatpacking industry
The Jungle
became youngest president at 42, made the Square Deal
Theodore Roosevelt
President Roosevelt's program of progressive reforms to protect common people against big business
Square Deal
enacted in 1906, established cleanliness requirements in meat packing plants and created federal meat-inspection program
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
planned management of natural resources
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
head of the U.S. Forest Service under President Roosevelt
Gifford Pinchot
Became 27th president
William Howard Taft
set of tax regulations that failed to reduce tariffs on manufactured goods
Payne-Aldrich Tariff