Progresivism Flashcards
(39 cards)
16th amedment
(1913)gave congress the power to impose income tax
17th amendment
direct election of senetors
18th amendment
(1919)illegal to sell alcohol drinks anywhere in the us
19th amendment
(1919)guarenteed women the right to vote-ratifies 1920
Whats does ISAW stand for
16th amendment-income tax 17th-senators-people elect 18th-alcohol ban 19th-womens suffurage
Clayton anit-turst act
defined specific in which business could not engage ,protected unions from being defined as trusts
federal trade commision (FTC)
was created in 1912,monitor business to prevent monopolies,false advertising,and dishonest labeling
Sherman Anti-trust act
prohibited trusts or other businesses from limiting competition; many problems in the court system
federal reserve act
(1913) law that places national banks under control of federal reserve board
pure food and drug act
made it so food and drug companies had to put ingredients on the package
meat inspection act
made it so fatories must open their doors to inspection
Pendleton civil service act
law that created a civil servie system for federal government in attempt to hire employees on a merit system rather than the spoil system,helped stop the spoil system
interstate ommerce act
set up interstate commerce commission prohibited pools and rebates
William mckinley
republican candidate for president in 1896 who followed traditional strategy for letting party workers campaign for him,president was Roosevelt was the vice president
Taft
won 1908 election,broke up many trusts,set up new safety regulations
Willson
Pregressive democrat,elected president in 1912 ,new freedom wants to restore composition and was for the federal reserve
Teddy Roosevelt
president who passed progressuve reforms and expanded thee power of presidency
Jacob Riis
Wrote how the otehr half lives and it was about life in slums
Lincoln steffems
the shame of the cities-wrote about corrupt and bribe taking of politicans in city politics
Booker T. Washington
worte Up From Slavery-tuskegee institute in alabama
WEB Dubois
1st african american to earna PH from Harvard and formed the NAACP
Rutherford B Hayes
first to take action against spoil system
Thomas Nast
drew political cartoons of tweed