Unit 2 week 6

PROGRESSIVE ERA

Tuskegee Institute - Private historically black University in Tuskegee AL

Theodore Roosevelt- Leader, insured fairness

Uptown Sinclair- American writer who wrote nearly 100 books

women rights- more available jobs and they would get an education

Clayton Antitrust Act- goal of adding more substance to the US antitrust law regime

Immigrant living conditions lived in crowed 1 room apartment like places

NAACP- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People civil rights organization

National Wildlife refuges- created to protect egretd and other birds through hunting seasons

Meat Inspection Act-American law that makes it mislabel and sell meat products also enforces that mean is properly cut and clean

Jacob Rills- Danish American social farmer, journalist, and photographer

Jane Adams- American settllement activist , social worker, author , and she contributed a lot to the rights of women

National American Suffrage Assoc.- organication formed February 18, 1890. Created by two former existing organ. to advocate in favor of women's suffrage

Big Business - very unregulated

working conditions- included safety concerns , child labor

Hull House- settlement house in the United States co-founded in 1889

Alice Paul- American Suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist , and one who really impacted of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. constitution

Environmentalism-management of American public lands

Sherman Antitrust- law that regulates competition among enterprises

William Howard Taft- 27th president of the United States and the tenth chief justice of the U.S. only person who held both offices.

John Muir- influential Scottish- American naturalist author, environmental philosopher, and gaciologist

Racial Discrimination- any discrimination against individuals on the basis of skin color including refusing services and resources

Act Woodrow Wilson- Provides the framework for regulating the nation banks , credit , and money supply today.

Gifford Pinchot- American forester and politician. He served as 6th Chief of the U.S. Division of forestry, and as the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania

9th Amendment- prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the U.S. based on sex

Booker T. Washington - educator, author, orator , and adviser to former presidents of the United States , between 1890 and 1945 , Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary black elite

Pure Food and Drug Act- of a series of significant consumer protection laws which was set by congress in the 20th Century and led to the creation of the food and drug adminiatration