Definitions
The collection of activities and ideas about how to fix the problems within American society
Progressivism
Mostly through photography, described poverty, disease, and crime that affected many immigrant neighborhoods
Jacob Riis
The five amendments added during the Progressive Era
NACW
National Association of Colored Women
Robert La Follette's nickname
Battling Bob
A journalist who writes about the corrupt side of business, public life, and government
Muckraker
Published a series of articles critical of Rockefeller's Standard Oil company
Ida Tarbell
Allows the federal government to collect an income tax from all Americans
16th Amendment
NAWSA
National American Women Suffrage Association
True of false: The suffrage movement began before the Progressive Era
True
Allows a group of citizens to propose new laws, by petition, and required the state legislatures to vote on it
Initiative
Reported on vote stealing and other corrupt practices or urban political machines. Wrote The Shame of the Cities
Lincoln Steffens
Gives voters the power to directly elect their senators
17th amendment
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Wisconsin's nickname
Laboratory of Democracy
Allows voters to demand a special-called election to remove an elected official from office before his or her term ends
Recall
Exposed the horrible conditions of the meat packing industry in the book The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
Equal voting rights for men and women
19th amendment
FTC
Federal Trade Commission
Elizabeth Stanton's middle name
Cady
Allows laws passed by the state legislatures to be submitted to voters for approval or rejection
Referendum
Two early leaders of the Women's Suffrage Movement
Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Repealed the 18th amendment
21st amendment
BESAGG
Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government
The name of Carrie Chapman Catt's plan
Winning Plan