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| What were the four goals of the Progressive Movement? |
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-protecting social welfare -promoting moral improvement -creating economic reform -fostering efficiency |
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-lived in Jane Addam's Hull House in Chicago -became an advocate for improving lives of women and children -was appointed chief inspector of factories for Illinois -helped pass the Illinois Factory act in 1893 |
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the banning of the manufacture, sale, and possession of alcoholic beverages
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-Women's Christiam Temperance Union -promoted prohibition -went into saloons singing, praying, and urging saloonkeepers to stop selling alcohol |
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-a group who supported prohibition -wanted saloons to shut down all together |
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the belief that government should leave the economy alone and it will deal with it's self
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an economic and political system based on government ownership of businesses and property and on equal distribution of the wealth
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one of the magazine journalists who exposed the corrupt side of business and public life in the early 1900s
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| the application of scientific principles to increase efficiency in the workplace |
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The Principles of Scientific Management
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| a pamphlet written by Fredrick Winslow Taylor – the man who popularized scientific management – that stated "time studies of work forms the basis of modern management" |
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-owner of Henry Ford motor company -introduced the $5 day -used assembly lines in his factories |
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-leader of the Republican party in Wisconsin -served 3 terms as governor Before he entered the US Senate -wanted to push businesses out of politics and treat them just like other people |
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| a procedure by which a legislativeneasure can be originated by the people rather than by lawmakers |
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| a procedure by which a proposed legislative measure can be submitted to a vote of the people |
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| a procedure for removing a public official from office by a vote of the people |
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| an amendment to the US Constitution, adopted in 1913, that provided for the election of US senators by the people rather than by state legislatures |
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| What type of work did women do? |
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Farms -cooking -cleaning -sewing -plow and planting and harvesting the crops if husband is sick Other -some still did domestic jobs -some worked in factories |
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-dad was an astronomist -discovered a new comet -first wome to be honored with the election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
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| the National Association of Colored Women – a social service organization founded in 1896 |
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| Describe the 3-part strategy for suffrage. |
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1. tried to convince state legislatures 2. pursued court cases to test the Fourteenth Amendment 3. pushed for a national constitutional amendment |
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| helped found the NWSA and voted illegaly in the presidential election of 1872 |
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| the National American Woman Suffrage Association – an organizastion founded in 1890 to gain voting rights for women |
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| went to Chicago and researched the area for seven weeks in order to write his novel "the Jungle" |
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| a novel by Upton Sinclair about the awful conditions of factories |
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| became president of the US when President McKinley (who Roosevelt was vice president under) was assasinated |
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| President Theodore Roosevelt's program of progressive reforms designed to protect the common people against big business |
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| Describe the 1902 Coal Strike. |
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-workers wanted a 20% raise and a 9-hr day -went on for 5 months -Roosevelt took both sides to the White House to solve the dilema |
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| The Sherman Anti-Trust Act |
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| a law, enacted in 1890, that was intended to prevent the creation of monopolies by making it illegal to establish trusts that interfered with free trade |
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| The Interstate Commerce Act |
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| a law, enacted in 1887, that reestablished the federal government's right to supervise railroad actiities and created a five member Interstate Commerce Commission to do so |
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| a law, enacted in 1906, that established strict cleanliness requirements for meatpackers and created a federal meat-inspection program |
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| a law enacted in 1906 to halt the sale of contaminated foods and drugs and ttu assure truth in labeling |
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| the planned management of natural resources, involvint the protection of some wilderness areas and the development of others for the common good |
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| the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People – an organization founded in 1909 to promote fullracial equality |
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| one ofthe magazine journalists who exposed the corrupt side of buisness and public life in the early 1900s |
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| a conservationist and head of the US Forrest Service under President Roosevelt |
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president of the US after Roosevelt |
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| Describe the breakup of the Republican Party. |
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someone Taft appointed was making sure progressive
bills were not passed so the republicans split into people who agreed with him and people who didn't |
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| a set of tax egulations, enacted by Congress in 1909, that failed to significantly reduce tariffs on manufactured goods |
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| the Democratic candidate in the 1912 election |
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-president of NAWSA -called an emergency suffrage convention at which Wilson cautiously expressed his support for suffrage |
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| a law, enacted in 1914, that made certain monopolistic business practices illegal and protected the rights of labor unions and farm organizations |
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| a federal agancy established in 1914 to investigate and stop unfair business practices |
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| larger incomes were taxed more |
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| a national banking system, established in 1913, that controls the US money supply and the availability of credit in the country |
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| the National American Woman Suffrage Association – an organization founded in 1890 to gain voting rights for women |
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| a British suffragist who helped found the National Woman's Social and Political Union |
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| an amendment to the US Constitution, adopted in 1920, that gave women the right to vote |
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