Row I (vocab)
Muckraker
The right to vote
Suffrage
Governor of Wisconsin. Attacked the way political parties ran their conventions. He pressured legislature to pass a law requiring parties to hold a direct primary.
Robert M. La Follette.
When an individual contacts a political leader directly to explain concerns and try to convince them to vote for a legislation that supports their cause.
Collection of different ideas and activities, series of responses to issues in American society following growth of industry.
Progressivism
These codes required restaurants and other facilities to maintain a clean environment.
Health codes.
This league was established by Sigmund Livingston to combat stereotypes and discrimination.
Anti-Defamation League
Legislation
Initiative
Location of the Women's Rights Convention.
Seneca Falls, New York
This man is the author of The Bitter Cry of the Children that detailed evidence of child labor conditions.
John Spargo
The Progressive Movement was in part a reaction to this type of economy.
Laissez-Faire Economy
Building Codes set these standards. (4)
Light, Air, Room size, and Escapes.
President Roosevelt was best known for his efforts in this area.
Environmental Conservation
Disobedience to authority
Insubordination
A tax that someone pays, but the tax burden falls on someone else.
Indirect tax
This amendment along with the 14th granted citizenship and voting rights to African American men.
15th
The Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire led to the establishment of this commission.
The Factory Investigative Commission
Progressives joined with this group to pressure for worker's compensation.
Union leaders.
This movement advocated that people stop, or moderate their consumption of alcohol.
Temperance Movement
Evangelical Protestant Ministers formed this group to focus on reducing consumption and later Prohibition.
Anti-Saloon League
A tax based on the net income of a person or business.
Income Tax
Trading practices that derive a gain at the expense of competition.
Unfair Trading Practices
Woman's Suffrage Movement split into two groups: the New York City-based National Woman Suffrage Association and this other group.
Boston-based American Woman Suffrage Association
Established by Taft to investigate and publicize child labor issues.
The Children's Bureau
These laws divided a town or city into zones for commercial, residential, or other development.
Zoning Laws
In 1906 Upton Sinclair published this novel, based on his close observations of the slaughterhouses in Chicago.
The Jungle
This party was founded by Alice Paul, and emphasized non-violent protest to promote women's right to participate in democratic processes.
National Woman's Party
A vote held by all members of a political party to decide their candidate for public office.
Direct Primary
The right that enables voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials from office.
Recall
This Amendment was ratified on August 26, 1920 giving women the right to vote.
19th
Roosevelt called his program New Nationalism. Wilson called his program this - believing that freedom outweighed competition.
New Freedom
These two Acts were passed on the same day in 1906, requiring inspection of meat sold through interstate commerce and prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of impure or falsely labeled food and drugs.
Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act
The Bureau of Chemistry would later become this organization to ensure product/consumer safety.
The Food and Drug Administration
The practice of letting voters accept or reject measures proposed by the legislature.
Referendum
A tax imposed directly on a person or their property.
Direct tax
These groups/individuals focus on crime, poverty, alcohol abuse, illiteracy, child labor, and the health and safety of Americans.
Social Welfare Progressives
This Act of 1913 created regional reserve banks to control the nation's interest rates and the amount of money in circulation.
Federal Reserve Act
This Act was passed in 1890 to aid in the regulation of big business. Amended by the Clayton Antitrust Act.
Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act established the eight-hour workday for railroad workers.
Adamson Act
Laws banning the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.
Prohibition
Settling a dispute by agreeing to accept the decision of an impartial outsider.
Arbitration
This Act of 1902 authorized the use of federal funds from public land sales to pay for irrigation and land development.
Newlands Reclamation Act
This Act of 1914 corrected deficiencies in the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 and outlawed certain practices that restricted competition.
Clayton Antitrust Act
This labor Act prohibited the employment of children under the age of 14 in factories producing goods for interstate commerce.
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
The Federal Farm Loan Act provided this to farmers.
Low interest loans to farmers.