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Define Reconstitute
Change into a different form.
Define Abhorrent
To feel hatred for.
Define Syndicalists
Workers that seize control of the government and economy by means of a strike.
Define Collusion
A secret agreement for illegal purposes.
An 1892 statement by the Populists calling for stronger government to protect ordinary Americans.
Omaha Platform
National Child Labor Committee
A reform organization that worked (unsuccessfully) to win a federal law banning child labor.
Free Silver
A policy of loosening the money supply by expanding federal coinage to include silver as well as gold. Advocates of the policy thought it would encourage borrowing and stimulate industry.
Wisconsin Idea
A policy promoted by Republican governor Robert La Follette of Wisconsin for greater government intervention in the economy.
Talented Tenth
A term used by Harvard-educated sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois for the top 10 percent of educated African Americans
Federal Reserve
The central bank system of the United States, created in 1913. Helped set the money supply level, thus influencing the rate of growth of the U.S. economy
An 1898 Supreme Court ruling that allowed states to impose poll taxes and literacy tests.
Williams v Mississippi
A 1902 law, supported by President Theodore Roosevelt, that allowed the federal government to sell public lands to raise money for irrigation projects that expanded agriculture on arid lands.
Newlands Reclamation Act
A 1911 Supreme Court decision that directed the breakup of the ______ into smaller companies because its overwhelming market dominance and monopoly power violated antitrust laws.
Standard Oil Decision
Hepburn Act
A 1906 antitrust law that empowered the federal Interstate Commerce Commission to set railroad shipment rates wherever it believed that railroads were unfairly colluding to set prices.
Progressive Era government support provided to mothers whose husbands had died, been disabled, or abandoned the family. Recipients had to meet standards of “respectability” defined by middle-class home visitors
Mothers' Pensions
Landmark 1890 act that forbade anticompetitive business activities, requiring the federal government to investigate trusts and any companies operating in violation of the act.
Sherman Antitrust Act
A 1908 Supreme Court case that upheld an Oregon law limiting women’s workday to ten hours, based on the need to protect women’s health for motherhood
Muller v Oregon
Lodge Bill
Also known as the Federal Elections Bill of 1890, a bill proposing that whenever 100 citizens in any district appealed for intervention, a bipartisan federal board could investigate and seat the rightful winner.
Industrial Workers of the World
An umbrella union and radical political group founded in 1905, dedicated to organizing unskilled workers to oppose capitalism.
(Extra Points if you can give their Nickname)
An 1883 law establishing a nonpartisan Civil Service Commission to fill federal jobs by examination. Dealt a major blow to the "spoils system".
Pendleton Act
In a 1910 speech, Theodore Roosevelt called for a “________” that promoted government intervention to enhance public welfare, including a federal child labor law, more recognition of labor rights...etc
New Nationalism
A 1905 Supreme Court ruling that New York State could not limit bakers’ workday to ten hours because that violated bakers’ rights to make contracts.
Lochner v New York
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
An organization founded in 1909 by leading African American reformers and white allies as a vehicle for advocating equal rights for African Americans, especially through the courts.
Clayton Antitrust Act
A 1914 law that strengthened federal definitions of “monopoly” and gave more power to the Justice Department to pursue antitrust cases.
Kansas Political Organizer who argued, "Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them."
Mary E. Lease