People who makes changes in order to improve something
Reformers
The use of children in industry or business
Child Labor
A time period in U.S. history that emphasized political and social reform and specifically fights against corrupt business practices while promoting economic reform and social welfare.
Progressive Movement
Journalists who exposed and investigated the challenges and corruption that came with industrialization and urbanization
Muckraker
They fought and negotiated for better working conditions and better wages for workers and were finally made legal in the Progressive Era
Labor Unions
Roosevelts wrapped his reforms into a policy that he called...
The Square Deal
This Act was passed in 1914 by congress to help break up trusts and monopolies.
Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914
The building of housing in established American cities in response to an influx of European immigrants and urban poverty.
Settlement Movement
His book of pictorial work shocked the middle class when it showed how the other half lived
Jacob Riis
He worked undercover in a meat packing factory and wrote The Jungle.
Upton Sinclair
Who became President AFTER William Howard Taft?
Woodrow Wilson
Social movement within Protestantism that aims to apply Christian ethics to social problems, whose main goal was to promote Morality.
Social Gospel Movement
Putting an existing law on the ballot for voters to either affirm or reject
Referendum
A person or agency employed to enforce antitrust legislation
Trustbuster
Prevention of wasteful use of a resource; a careful preservation and protection over something.
Conservation
Law passed to limit the working hours of children and forbade the interstate sale of goods produced by child labor.
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916
The law prohibited the manufacture or sale of misbranded or adulterated food or drugs.
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.
A form of election in which voters directly choose a political party’s candidates for office
Direct Primary
Permitted citizens to remove a public official from office through a process of petition and vote
Recall
The activity of protecting something from loss or danger.
Preservation
Process that enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed statutes and, in some states, constitutional amendments on the ballot
Initiative
This Amendment was passed in 1913 and established the direct election of U.S. senators.
17th Amendment
Investigative Journalist who aimed to expose corrupt business practices; specifically John D. Rockefeller and Standard oil Company.
Ida Tarbell
This law prevented adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
Meat Packing Act of 1906
One of the earliest reformers for the Progressive Movement, was a Political cartoonist who exposed corrupt politicians and businessmen.
Thomas Nast
This event resulted in the deaths of 146 workers and led to the passage of new safety regulations.
1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
This Act created a federal banking system to oversee monetary policy.
1913 Federal Reserve Act
What was Wilson's progressive platform called?
New Freedom
A political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole
Socialsim
She worked to establish the Hull House to improve the conditions for immigrant women and children.
Jane Addams