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Laws banning the manufacture, sale and consumption of alcohol.
Prohibition
A muckraker who wrote multiple critical articles about the standard oil company.
Ida Tarbell
A conservative corporate lawyer who tried to drive almost 1 million acres of public forest and mineral reserves available for private development.
Richard Ballinger
The leader of the United States forest service. He was fired due to insubordination.
Gifford Pinchot
A social reformer who contributed to the development of state and federal labour and social welfare legislature in the U.S.
Florence Kellu
A democrat, won the election of 1912, who tried to get rid of big trusts.
Woodrow Wilson
A republican governor, wisconsin, who criticized the way political parties ran their conventions. He pushed the state legislature to pass a law demanding parties to hold a direct primary.
Robert LaFollette
A primary where voters directly select the candidates who will run for office.
Direct Primary
Voters can remove elected officials from office.
Recall
A settlement negotiated by an outside party.
Arbitration
Laws banning the manufacture, sale and consumption of alcohol.
Prohibition
Government control of the economy.
Socialists (belief)
Journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption.
Muckrakers
A theory of management intended to maximize labour productivity and economic efficiency.
Scientific management
A policy of minimum governmental influence in the economic affairs of individuals and society.
Progressives and “laissez” faire economic policy
Party bosses controlled the selection of convention delegates which meant they also controlled the nomination of the candidates.
Election of U.S. senators (before the Progressive Era)
When a state tests out a new policy before it is applied to the nation as a whole.
“Laboratory of democracy”
An agency that investigated and publicized the problems of child labor
Children’s Bureau
T.R. took legal action against NSC, a railroad traffic monopoly, because the company violated the sherman antitrust act.
Northern Securities Company v U.S.
T.R. believed that Taft’s focus on breaking up trusts was destroying the carefully crafted system of cooperation and regulation T.R. had established with big businesses.
TR’s criticism of Taft’s policies
Coal miners striked demanding reduced work hours, more pay and union recognition. The mine owners said no but T.R. stepped, because without the mines running coal prices would increase which would lead to factories shutting down leaving homes unheated, in threatening the owners the if they didn’t agree he would make the army run the mines.So the agreed to the arbitration.
Coal miners strike of 1902
Taft wasn’t the biggest fan of trusts. He declared and antitrust lawsuit against US steel, claiming that they had violated the sherman antitrust act.
Taft and Trusts
An act which decreased the tariff rate by a lot. It also allowed income tax on individuals. The constitution originally banned direct taxes on individuals but in 1913 approval of the 16th amendment made it legal for the government to tax incomes of individuals.
Underwood tariff
A fire that occurred in a shirtwaist factory killed ca 150 women due to exit doors being locked to supposedly prevent theft.
Triangle Shirtwaist Company tragedy
