Progressive Era: Who Am I?

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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


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