Farming
The Farmers Alliance and this organization were basically the labor unions for the farmers.
What was The Grange?
He was our first progressive president, with his "Square Deal" and his "trust busting." He was also the one who coined the terms muckrakers to describe progressive journalists.
Who was Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt?
With these, the citizens, not the party bosses or bog wigs, get to choose a political party's nominee.
What are direct primaries or primaries?
This amendment created the graduated federal income tax, which applied mainly to the wealthy at first.
What is the 16th Amendment?
Before the 19th Amendment was passed, this little lady dedicated to the Temperance Movement caused a sensation by going into saloons and damaging them with her axe.
Who was Carrie Nation?
This strike ended in bloodshed when anarchist threw a bomb at a group of policemen. After public outcry, the Knights of Labor lost over 50% of it's membership even though it was completely blameless.
What was the Haymarket Strike in Chicago.
During this strike in Pennsylvania saw workers at a Carnegie still plant exchange gun fire with private Pinkerton guards. In the end, the state militia was called in and the strikers lost.
What was the Homestead Strike?
This man believed in the Gospel of Wealth, that the wealthy should help society. He became a philanthropist, giving his fortune to charity (libraries and education)
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
The Meat Inspection Act is passed after he and many Congressmen read The Jungle.
Who was TR?
The Farmers Alliance created these principles that became the backbone of the Populist Party.
What was the Omaha Platform?
Ida Tarbell helped bring down this monopoly.
Who was John D Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust?
With these citizens, not the state or local government, gets to vote yes or no on a proposed law.
This Amendment, with the help of Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul, made part of the Seneca Falls Declaration a reality for women.
Who was the 19th Amendment? (women's suffrage)
Yellowstone became America's first national park in 1872. With the assistance of the naturalist who founded the Sierra Club, many more national parks were also created.
Who was John Muir?
Samuel Gompers led up this organization, it was and still is the largest labor union in America.
What was the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
Today it is known as the AFL-CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations).
Many industries forced workers to sign these pledges that forbade them from joining a union if they wanted a job at the factory.
What was a "yellow-dog" contract?
Workers banded together and started to form these, seeking better pay and shorter hours.
What were labor unions (unions)?
He set up the Federal Reserve Bank.
Who was WW?
Populist Party members wanted the government to take over this industry because their high fees were hurting farmers.
What was the railroads?
His novel, The Jungle, caused the Meat Inspection Act and the Food and Drug Act to be passed.
Who was Upton Sinclair?
With this amendment, citizens now select their two state senators, not the state legislature.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This amendment made ladies of the Temperance Movement very happy.
What was the 18th Amendment?
Prohibition against alcohol.
In 1924, Congress granted all Native Americans citizenship. Even better - with this 1934 act, the federal government did away with the Dawes Act and worked to bring back the culture and heritage of Native Americans.
What was the Indian Reorganization Act?
Eugene Debs headed up the American Railway Union and this political party, which promised to distribute profits from major industry to the workers.
What was the Socialist Party?
Although this railroad strike started in Chicago, in spread to 27 other states as railroad unions joined forces. The Federal government issued an injunction and Union leader Eugene Debs was thrown in jail for six months.
What was the Pullman Strike?
The organization came over from England and provided necessities to the homeless and the poor
What was the Salvation Army?
He was the first "Trust Buster"?
Who was TR?
The Populist Party wanted this to be the basis of America's money, so they could more easily pay back their loans.
(America was on the gold standard, which helped banks more than consumers)
Lincoln Steffens and Thomas Nast helped to bring these under control in the big cities.
What were political machines?
These allows citizens to force their state or local legislature to vote on a proposed law.
What is an initiative?
Shut out by the republican party, he ran as the Progressive Party (Bull Moose Party) candidate in 1912 and won more votes than the Republican nominee.
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
Roosevelt and Taft split the vote, allowing Woodrow Wilson to become president.
This party developed as a result of the Panic of 1873, as many people who owed money wanted to get off the gold standard.
What was the Greenback Party?
Industry would use these temporary workers to break strikes.
Who were scabs or replacement workers?
This antitrust act hurt unions, not monopolies, because it outlawed any activity that restricted interstate commerce. Industry leaders used this law to stop strikes and the courts agreed.
What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?
She set up Hull Houses, places where immigrants in various cities could go for aid.
Who was Jane Addams?
He was president when the 18th and 19th Amendments were ratified.
Who was WW?
This man made his "Cross of Gold Speech" and became the democratic candidate for President in 1896.
Who was William Jennings Bryan?
With that speech the democratic party took the major issue away from the Populist Party, as well as many other progressive issues, severely hurting that party.
His pictorial How the Other Half Lives caused many to do more to help the poor and clean up the cities.
Who was Jacob Riis?
Many of these democratic reforms came from this governor of Wisconsin.
Who was Robert LaFollette?
His New Freedom Agenda called for creating a Federal Reserve Bank, created the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (which benefitted unions) and a Child Labor Act (trying to end child labor)
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
This tragedy sparked women's activism and improvements to working conditions in factories.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911)?
Industry would sometimes do this, closing a factory to keep a strike from even starting.
What is a lock out?
In In Re Debs, 1885, the Supreme Court ruled that government could use these to stop strikes that hurt the economy.
What is an injunction?
HOWEVER, The 1932 Norris-LaGuardia Act largely banned federal courts from issuing injunctions against peaceful labor strikes.
But this did not stop president Reagan from ending the Air Traffic Controllers strike in 1981
Terrence Powderly established America's first labor union that accepted African Americans and women.
What was the Knights of Labor?
He was the first president to support workers and the environment.
Who was TR?