Origins of Progressivism
Types of laws created in the South that upheld segregation in public places
What is Jim Crow Laws?
This law dictated cleanliness requirements for meatpackers and created the program of federal meat inspection
What is the meat inspection act?
26th President of the United States, took over for Mckinley. Ran for president in 1912 as a third party candidate and received the 2nd most votes
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
Name of the political party created for the 1912 election in which Teddy Roosevelt was the nominee
What is the Bull Moose Party?
Journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of politics
What is muckrackers?
Court case that set the precedent for the "separate but equal" doctrine
What is Plessy vs Ferguson?
This law halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
27th president of the United States. Very unpopular with the American public due to his cutting of reforms made by the previous president. Infamous moment of his is getting stuck in a bath tub due to his weight
Who is William Howard Taft?
Name of the plan that Teddy Roosevelt had in his presidency
What is the Square Deal?
Banning of alcoholic beverages
What is prohibition?
An annual tax that had to be paid before qualifying to vote?
What is a poll tax?
This provided for federal irrigation projects by using money from the sale of public lands
What is the National Reclamation Act?
28th President of the United States.. Former governor of New Jersey and president of Princeton. Known for winning his election due to a split in the Republican ticket
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Taft signing this piece of legislation, which raised the price on some imported goods, angered progressives who voted for him
What is the Payne-Aldrich tariff?
This means that some of the wilderness areas would be preserved and other parts would be developed for the common good
What is conservation?
This clause stated that even if a man failed the literacy test or could not afford to pay the poll tax, he was still able to vote if he, his father, or his grandfather had been eligible to vote before January 1st, 1867
What is the grandfather clause?
This prohibited corporations from acquiring the stock of another if doing so would create a monopoly
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?
This reformer founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, pushed for African Americans to acquire useful skills to be used in the workforce
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This event was a disagreement between coal miners and the operators. The miners demanded a 20% raise and a workday limited to nine hours. Eventually, an arbitration commission had to step in and set a precedent of the federal government intervening in these issues
Movement that was created by W.E.B. Dubois in which the goal was to create educated leaders in the black community
What is the Niagara movement?
Name two of the four progressive movement goals
What is
Protecting social welfare
Promoting moral improvement
Creating economic reform
Fostering efficiency
This "watchdog" agency was given the power to investigate possible violations of regulatory statutes
What is the Federal Trade Commission? (FTC)
This reformer was the first African-American to receive a doctorate from Harvard. He insisted that African-Americans should seek a liberal arts education so that the African American community would have well-educated leaders
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
This woman created the first school for African-American women. It was located in Daytona Beach, Florida
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
A system that bounds laborers into slavery in order to work off debt to an employer
What is debt peonage?