Karteikarten
UNIT 3 progressivism
Karten in diesem Stapel (18)
- 1*Tenements• Slum apartments in cities
• Example: the apartment they live in
in The Jungle - 2GraftPolitical corruption to gain money
Example: taking bribes - 3*Reform• To change for the better
• Example: Passing the “meat
inspection act” - 4*Populism• More power to ordinary people
• Example: 17th amendment allows
for the direct election of senators - 5*Progressivism• Fixing society with government change
• Example: passing the prohibition of
alcohol (18th amendment) - 6*Americanization• Immigrants learning to be
“American” - 7Public Education• Government run schools
• Example: Lancaster City Schools - 8Environmental regulations• Laws about how environment’s
treated
• Example: It’s illegal to dump waste
from your factory into rivers - 9Conservation• Protecting and preserving the
environment
• Example: President Teddy
Roosevelt established many
national parks and protected
wilderness areas - 10*Suffrage• The right to vote
- 11Susan B. AnthonyFought for women’s rights
(especially voting) - 12*19th Amendment• Granted women the right to vote
- 13Sherman Antitrust Act• Anti-monopoly law from 1890
- 14Clayton Antitrust Act• Stopped Monopolies merging &
helped labor unions - 15Muckrakers• Journalists who exposed wrongdoing
• Example: Upton Sinclair (wrote The
Jungle) - 16Theodore Roosevelt• Progressive President: fought for
conservation - 17Federal Reserve System• Central Bank created to protect
banks from failing - 18Sixteenth Amendment• Allowed income tax
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