Industry & Production
This system used assembly lines and mass production to make goods faster and cheaper
What is Fordism?
Instead of negotiating individually, workers used this method to demand better pay and safer conditions
What is collective bargaining?
This amendment allowed voters to directly elect US senators instead of state legislatures
What is the Seventeenth Amendment?
This amendment gave Congress the power to levy a federal income tax
What is the Sixteenth Amendment?
Journalists exposing coporate corruption and unsafe conditions were called this
What are muckrakers?
The assembly line in factories helped create this type of economy where consumers buy lots of affordable products
What is consumer capitalism?
This Supreme Court case limited women's working hours, claiming protection but reinforcing sterotypes
What is Muller v. Oregon?
This presidential election saw Republicans split between Taft and Roosevelt, allowing Wilson to win
What is the Election of 1912?
What is a graduated income tax? (The rich don't like this bc rich finally paying more)
The movement pushing for reporductive rights and birth control was led by this activist
Who is Margaret Sanger?
This 1906 book by Upton Sinclair exposed the horrors of meatpacking plants and led to food safety laws
What is The Jungle?
Urban reform centers that provided education, childcare, and healtcare for immigrants were called this
What are settlement houses? Ex: Hull House founded by Jane Addams
Wilson's program focused on breaking up trusts and protecting small businesses to maintain competition
What is New Freedom?
This institution was created to stablize currency and control the US money supply
What is the Federal Reserve System?
Reformers believed society had a responsibility to protect the weak, including women and children; these were called this type of reforms
What are materialist reforms?
Theodore Roosevelt earned this nickname for taking on monopolies and big business
She founded Hull House in Chicago and became a major Progressive leader
Who is Jane Addams?
Theodore Roosevelt's plan allowed big business to exist but under strong federal regulation
What is New Nationalism?
Progressive tax reforms aimed to make the wealthy pay more while keeping this class burden
What is the working class / poor?
Progressive reformers wanted to fix the system, fight corruption, and protect workers without doing this
What is overturning capitalism completely / socialism?
This federal law required honest labeling of food and medicine to prevent Americans from being poisoned
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
These reforms aimed to protect women and children, like limiting work hours or providing pensions to mothers
What are maternalist reforms?
Progressive reforms sought to expand democracy, regulate big business, protect workers, and control this economic system
What is capitalism?
The federal government's attempt to regulate big business included tax reforms and this type of regulation
What is monopoly / trust regulation?
The Jungle, muckrakers, and settlement houses all exposed problems in these areas
What are industry, labor, and urban life