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Progressivism Vocab
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- 1TenementsSlum apartments in cities
Example: the apartment they live in in The Jungle - 2GraftPolitical corruption to gain money
Example: taking bribes - 3ReformTo change for the better
Example: Passing the "meat inspection act" - 4PopulismMore power to ordinary people
Example: 17th amendment allows for the direct election of senators - 5ProgressivismFixing society with government change
Example: passing the prohibition of alcohol (18th amendment) - 6AmericanizationImmigrants learning to be "American"
- 7Public EducationGovernment run schools
Example: Lancaster City Schools - 8Environmental RegulationsLaws about how environment's treated
Example: It's illegal to dump waste from your factory into rivers - 9ConservationProtecting and preserving the environment
Example: President Teddy Roosevelt established many national parks and protected wilderness areas - 10SuffrageThe right to vote
- 11Susan B. AnthonyFought for women's rights (especially voting)
- 1219th AmendmentGranted women the right to vote
- 13Sherman Antitrust ActAnti-monopoly law from 1890
- 14Clayton Antitrust ActStopped Monopolies merging & helped labor unions
- 15MuckrakersJournalists who exposed wrongdoing
Example: Upton Sinclair (wrote The Jungle) - 16Theodore RooseveltProgressive President: fought for conservation
- 17Federal Reserve SystemCentral Bank created to protect banks from failing
- 18Sixteenth AmendmentAllowed income tax
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