Progressive Era: Who Am I?
Carry Nation
6 feet tall, carry a hatchet, smashing bottles is my game
Settlement House Movement
A movement for immigrants/poor to receive assistance. English classes, job training, childcare, and healthcare are also provided here
Temperance Movement
A movement to ban alcohol
Initiative
A procedure by which voters can propose a law
spoils system/patronage
A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
Keating Owen Act
Act that banned the transport of goods made by child laborers from going across state lines
19th Amendment
Amendment that gave women the right to vote
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
An act that created the FDA, stated that medications needed prescriptions, and there should be warning labels on food and drugs that could be harmful.
direct primary
Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Interstate Commerce Act
Established the ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission) - monitors the business of transporting goods and people between states - created to regulate railroad prices
Referendum
Method of direct legislation that gives voters a chance to approve or disapprove proposed legislation
Women's Suffrage Movement
Movement to get women the right to vote
Meat Inspection Act
States that all animals and carcasses must be inspected before and after slaughter
Federal Reserve System
The country's central banking system, which is responsible for the nation's monetary policy by regulating the supply of money and interest rates
Mother Jones
Woman that fought against the abuses of child labor
Upton Sinclair
Wrote "The Jungle" and exposed the Meat Packing Industry
17th Amendment
direct election of senators
Ida Tarbell
exposed Standard Oil for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act
Ida B. Wells
fought for Congress to pass anti lynching laws
Jane Addams
founded the Hull House in Chicago
16th Amendment
graduated income tax
Muckrakers
investigative journalists who exposed corruption
Sherman Antitrust Act
law that banned the formation of trusts and monopolies in the United States
Jacob Riis
photographed the poor living conditions in the tenements and urged the wealthy to take action
Recall
procedure whereby voters can remove an elected official from office
Pendleton Act
requires civil service exam to prove qualifications for federal government jobs
Clayton Antitrust Act
strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890; certain activities previously committed by big businesses, such as not allowing unions in factories and not allowing strikes, were declared illegal.
Booker T. Washington
wanted economic equality and vocational training for Blacks
W.E.B. DuBois
wanted political equality for Black Americans; founded the NAACP
