Flashcards
The Progressive Era
Flashcards do conjunto (18)
- 1MuckrakerJournalist who uncovers wrongdoing in politics or business (E,S,P)
- 2ConservationistA person who favors the protection of natural resources (E)
- 3Pure Food and Drug ActAn act that prevents the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, liquors and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. (E)
- 4SuffrageThe right to vote (P)
- 5ProhibitionA ban on the sale and manufacture of alcoholic beverages (S)
- 616th AmendmentThe Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. (E,P)
- 717th Amendmentdirect election of senators (P)
- 818th Amendmentprohibition (outlaws the selling, producing, transporting of alcohol) (E,S,P)
- 919th AmendmentSuffrage --- Women can vote (P)
- 1021st AmendmentRepealed the 18th Amendment (prohibition of alcohol) (P)
- 11Square DealA term for President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program, formed upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. (E)
- 12Trust BustingTrust-busting refers to government activities designed to break up trusts or monopolies. Theodore Roosevelt is the U.S. president most associated with dissolving trusts, but his chosen successor, William Howard Taft, actually began the most of the anti-trust proceedings. (E)
- 13Booker T. Washington vs. WEB DuBoisBT - key proponent of African-American businesses and one of the founders of the National Negro Business League
WEB - leader of black militants in the North, set up NAACP to work for political change (S,P) - 14Ida Tarbellwas an American teacher, author and journalist. She was one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is thought to have pioneered investigative journalism. (S)
- 15Upton SinclairWrote The Jungle - exposed the deplorable conditions of the U.S. meat-packing industry. It caused a public outcry and ultimately led to the passing of the Meat Inspection Act in 1906. (E,S)
- 16Ida B. WellsAfrican American journalist. published statistics about lynching, urged African Americans to protest by refusing to ride streetcards or shop in white owned stores (S)
- 17Jacob Riispushed for the establishment of settlement houses, public parks and playgrounds, and other reforms to improve the lives of those in NYC's slums (S)
- 18Theodore Roosevelthe and other reformers expanded the number of jobs filled by exam rather than by party loyalty, tried hard to reform the conditions of immigrant labor in tenements..etc (S)
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- 11th grade US History FlashCards sobre The Progressive Era, criado por Jami Levine em 10-01-2017.
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