Vocab
The inability to read and write
Illiteracy
Theodore Roosevelt signed the Meat Inspection Act and The Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. This led to the creation of what organization?
FDA
When this amendment took effect in 1919 it banned the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States
18th Amendment
This word allowed citizens to remove elected officials from office if they did not like how they were doing their job.
recall
This newspaper was organization was located in Columbia, SC
The State
Through civic engagement the women of Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbia founded a hospital to treat this disease
TB - Tuberculosis
The right to vote
Suffrage
This man earned a PhD at Harvard University and helped to organize the NAACP
W.E.B. Du Bois
This amendment to the US Constitution gives all males the right to vote
15th Amendment
This word let citizens propose laws themselves by gaining enough signatures on a petition. The public then voted on them at the next election.
Initiatives
Fun Fact: Today the national average is about $16,000 per student and South Carolina spends about $14,500 per student.
$3.38
This school was opened in 1870 in Carlisle, PA
the Carlisle Indian Industrial School
A lack of fairness or justice; an unjust act or occurrence
injustice
in 1848 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were some of the women at the Seneca Falls convention, in New York to lobby congress and work for the passing of this right
The 19th Amendment / Women's Suffrage / Women's right to vote
This amendment formally abolished slavery in the US
13TH
This word allowed citizens to vote for or against laws already passed by the state's lawmakers
Referendum
In 1881 Booker T. Washington opened this all black vocational school in Alabama
Before it could become law, this many of the 48 states had to ratify the 19th amendment
3/4, three fourths, 36 states
A person who works to change something in order to improve it
reformer
This man was South Carolina's most progressive governor his list of accomplishments includes increased funding for schools, mandatory school attendance law, tax reforms, and reformed child labor laws.
Richard I. Manning III
This amendment grants citizenship rights to all people born or naturalized in the US
14th Amendment
This is a journalist that exposes the wrongs of organization or within society
Muckrakers
These people were known for making and selling illegal batches of alcohol.
Bootleggers
This system was utilized similar to slavery but was ended when state income tax was implemented during the Progressive Movement
The convict lease system
The preservation, protection, and restoration of the natural environment
Conservation
This man's approach to racial equality during the progressive movement was through gradual economic empowerment of African Americans by encouraging them learning a trade and earning the respect of white citizens. To aid in this development he opened the Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington
This amendment of the US Constitution allows for women's suffrage
19th Amendment
This group was made up of farmers and laborers looking for sweeping reforms
Populists
Immigrants and people from rural areas moved into the bigger cities and had to live in apartment buildings called
Tenements
The 16th, 17th,18th and 19th Amendments were the direct restult of this group's efforts
The Progressives
A company or group that has exclusive control over a product or service; the exclusive control of the supply of or trade in a product or service
Monopoly
Other than Teddy Roosevelt, name one of the two other men that worked to control corporations, protect consumers, start environmental conservation agencies, create labor laws, reduce tariffs and regulate banking
William Taft or Woodrow Wilson
This amendment to the US Constitution prohibited the sale of senate seats and started the direct election of senators.
17th Amendment
These two groups worked together towards Prohibition because they believed that alcohol was the moral decay of society by destroying families and increasing immoral behavior.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League
This is the French phrase for "let it be"
Laissez Faire
1865-1915 27 million immigrants moved from Greece,Italy, Poland and this Euro-Asian country
Russia
A political or business practice where loyalty is rewarded with desirable jobs or favors.
Patronage
This man wrote the book the Jungle as a result of his investigation into the Chicago meat packing industry
Upton Sinclair
This amendment to the US Constitution implemented a federal income tax
16th Amendment
This amendment repealed the 18th Amendment after congress admitted Prohibition was a failure
21st Amendment
As a result of unrestrained growth Standard oil and what other business was listed as monopoly
Carnegie Steel
Charleston