Organizations
What was NAWSA
Work towards giving women suffrage
Progressives
People who wanted to help solve social, economic, and political issues
Who was Ida Tarbell
Someone who wrote critical articles against the Rockefellers standard oil company
What was the Commission Plan
divides a city's government into several departments each placed under the control of an expert commissioner
What happend in Galveston Texas
One of the worst hurricanes ever recorded had 6000 people die due to ineffective political machine in power
What was the National Child Labor Committee
A committee dedicated to abolishing child labor
Muckrakers
Journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption
Who was Lincoln Steffens
Someone who reported on vote stealing and other corrupt practices
What is the Direct Primary
allows all party members to vote for a candidate to run in the general election
Name the president who were serving during the progressive era
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Muckrakers
Group of journalists who report problems in city life
What does Suffrage mean
The right to vote in elections
Who was Jacob Riis
Showed issues through photography
What is Initiative
Allowed a group of citizens to propose new laws, by petition, and required the state legislatures to vote on it
What law removed Prohibition
Amendment 21
Political Machine
Group in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts.
What was the 19th amendment
The right for women to vote
Who was Upton Sinclair
Wrote the Jungle which reported about unsanitary conditions at meat packing plants
What did the 17th amendment do
Allowed for the direct election of senators
How many Amendments were passed during the progressive era
4
Progressives
favoring or implementing social reform or new, liberal ideas.
Prohibition
The outlawing of alcohol
Who was the leader of the suffrage movement
Susan B Anthony
What is referendum
Allowed laws passed by the state legislatures to be submitted to voters for approval or rejection
What does Socialism mean
a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.