Terms and Definition
Voter petition to change a law.
Lead by progressive reforms to make the government more accountable to the people
Initiative
Gave women the right to vote
19th amendment
A movement, or groups of different reform movements, that took place at the turn of the 20th century until WWI directly caused by industrialization and urbanization. This movement sought to improve life in the industrial age by making moderate political changes and social improvements through governmental action. They wanted to limit the power of corporations, improve the democracy so it benefited the people, and strengthen justice.
Progressive movement
Used the assembly line to revolutionize manufacturing; Reduced workday to eight hours and paid five dollars a day
Henry Ford
Occurred in 1911 when a fire caused the deaths of approximately 150 women workers because they were locked in the building and had no fire escapes. This tragic event convinced many progressives to push for reforms of safety and health conditions in factories
Triangle Shirt Waste Factory Fire
a community center that provided social servies to the urban poor
settlement house
This act forbade the manufacture, sale, and transportation of adulterated or mislabeled foods and drugs
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
group founded in 1890 that worked on both the state and national levels to earn women the right to vote
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Broke from NAWSA in 1916 to form the National Women's Party and from the beginning lobbied Congress and the president for an amendment to the Constitution
Alice Paul
US annexed Hawaii to protect US economic interests there and establish a naval base
Annexation of Hawaii
Investigative journalist who exposed the problems of Gilded Age
Muckracker
Laid down binding rules for sanitary meat packing and government inspection of meat products crossing state lines.
Meat Inspection Act
aimed to help African Americans be "physically free from peonage, mentally free from ignorance, politically free from disfranchisement, and socially free from insult
NAACP
A muckraker who published this book that described the conditions in the Chicago stockyards of the meatpacking industry that caused public outcry. The publication of the book also caused Congress to enact two laws in 1906: the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act
Upton Sinclair
general walkout of garment workers demanding better safety in clothing factories
led to international ladies' garment worker union
Uprising of 20,000
A practical system founded by Frederick W. Taylor that organized factory workers in such a way that the most goods could be produced. He approach was widely used in factories, but reformers in the Progressive sought to apply this approach to government.
Scientific Management
government agency established in 1914 to identify monopolistic business practices, false advertising, and dishonest labeling
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Founded by Alice Paul in 1916, it adopted a more militant approach than NAWSA for gaining women's suffrage including mass picket demonstrations, parades, and hunger strikes from its supporters
National Womens' Party
A muck-racker who used photography and writing to expose the living and working conditions of those in poverty
Jacob Riis
Canal completed in 1914. Created a way for ships to get from Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean
Panama Canal
A philosophy that was prevalent during the Progressive era, taking the place of earlier transcendentalism
pragmatism
Part of Wilson's New Freedom Program that strengthened the provisions in the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 for breaking up monopolies. Unions were exempted from being prosecuted as trusts
Clayton Anti Trust Act of 1914
Where the government is involved in improving the lives of the people. Jane Addams, Frances Kelly, and other leaders of the social justice movement lobbied for better schools, juvenile courts, liberalized divorce laws, ad safety regulations for tenements and factories. These reformers also fought for a system of parole, separate reformatories for juveniles, and limits on the death penalty as they believed that criminals could improve themselves to be better citizens.
Social Welfare
social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation
Susan B. Anthony
Movement of African Americans from the South to urban areas in order to find better employment; began in 1910
The Great Migration