chapter 9 Flashcards
Florence Kelly
advocate for improving the lives of women and children
help to win the passage of Illinois factory act
A social and political reformer
worked against sweatshops
wanted minimum-wage eight hour workdays and children’s rights
prohibition
Banning the manufacture and sale of alcohol
muckrakers
journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and Public life in mass circulation magazines and newspapers
Robert La Follette
Wisconsin Governor who attacked big businesses to drive them out of politics
initiative
Bill organized by the people rather than lawmakers
referendum
excepting or rejecting an initiative via vote
recall
to remove officials from office before their term is up
17th amendment
allowed for direct election of Senators by all people of the state
suffrage
The right to vote
Susan B Anthony
leading proponent of woman suffrage cofounded national woman suffrage Association
Vassar College
first woman’s college in the US
National Association of colored woman
managed nurseries reading rooms and kindergartens for the moral education of colored people
three-part strategy for suffrage
gain the right to vote, pursue rights through the courts and constitutional amendment for suffrage
Upton Sinclair
wrote the jungle novel about the meatpacking industry
Square deal
describe various progressive reform
Roosevelt
meat inspection act
required strict cleanliness requirements for the meatpacking industry
pure food and drug act
halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling
conservation
some wilderness areas would be preserved while others would be developed for the common good
WEB DuBois
early civil rights activist who helped establish the NAACP
NCAAP
organization for racial equality
Ida Tarbell
McCracken journalist who wrote the history of standard oil Company for McClure’s magazine exposing unscrupulous business practices
what did the 14th amendment failed to grant
woman’s voting right
what is the Federal Reserve system
A national Bank
FTC
Agency that investigates trade violations
