Problems
This legislation called for truth in labeling, so that consumers knew what they were purchasing
Pure Food and Drug Act
Reform movement that sought to return control of the government to the people
Progressivism
Who started the Tuskegee Institute and what was its purpose?
Booker T. Washington and to educate African Americans in a trade. Known as a vocational school
This person created the Hull House in Chicago to help newly arrived immigrants. Was appointed Garbage Inspector
Jane Addams
This progressive reform was designed to give voters more power to choose candidates for public office?
Direct Primary
This is a decentralized private banking system under government control
Federal Reserve System
Who established the Federal Reserve System and why?
Woodrow Wilson – To regulate the money supply and prevent future economic panics.
Who created the U.S. National Park Service?
Woodrow Wilson
When Taft became President, he signed the Payne-Aldrich Bill, angering Progressives…What did this do?
Raised Tariffs and slowed international trade
These organizations (not political parties), did everything they could (legal and illegal) to gain the money and influence that came with possessing political power.
Political Machines
This muckraking journalist exposed the terrible conditions of the meatpacking industry.
Upton Sinclair
This Amendment was passed so that grain would be used to help the war effort and so that men would spend more $ and time on their families
18th Amendment (Prohibition)
When the National Child Labor Committee was started, and 39 states prohibited children under the age of 14 from working, what happened?
The number of children going to school and needing schools increased dramatically.
This gave the Department of Agriculture the ability to inspect packaged meat.
Meat Inspection Act
How does the arrival of industry spur rapid urbanization in America?
The jobs that were created by industrialization brought rural residents and immigrants flowing into the cities.
In the election of 1912, this person started the “Bull Moose” Progressive party because he was unhappy with the way the country was being run
Teddy Roosevelt
What did the ruling in Plessy v Ferguson help to create?
Jim Crow laws of the south. Segregation was permitted for 60 more years.
Gave women the right to vote, in what year?
19th Amendment, 1920
Gave labor unions the right to exist and said they would no longer be subject to antitrust laws.
Clayton Antitrust Act
What are the five ways that voting was reformed during the Progressive Era?
Secret Ballots
Direct Primaries
Recalls
Direct Initiative
Referendums
What does the 17th Amendment do who does it benefit?
Direct Elections for US Senators and it is a huge benefit to ordinary citizens (Created incentive to vote in midterm elections)
What was the 16th Amendment and why was it passed?
Created a graduated income tax in an effort to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor
Journalist who were tasked with uncovering the problems with society. Exposing the underbelly of America.
Muckrakers
Watchdog agency given the power to stop unfair business practices.
Federal Trade Commission
This is where the first Juvenile Courts were used. And who was the judge who presided over these courts.
Denver, Colorado
Judge Ben Lindsey