Progressive Era 1📥 Flashcards
(24 cards)
Civil Service Exam
An exam needed to make sure candidates are qualified and not just a friend. 📜
(Relates To Spoils System)
Primary
When the PEOPLE decide who the candidates are.
Conservation
Someone who wanted to protect and save the environment.
Interstate Commerce Comission
It’s how the government regulated trade between the states.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
First attempt to stop Monopolist. ✋️
Federal income tax
The government didn’t have the ability to collect income money. (16TH)
Progressives
The Era where people wanted to make our society better!
Spoils System
Giving Jobs to Friends and Supporters.
Spoiled with Friends💁
18th Amendment
Alcohol was become illegal since it was causing my money and fights for families.
16th Amendment
Government taxed your money.
(Out parents) 🏛
Muckraker
Journalist that expose bad conditions. 👎🤦♀️
Trustbusters
Politician who wanted to get rid of trusts. (Monopolists) 👻🔫
Square Deal
Teddy Roosevelt plan to treat everyone fairly.
Pure food and drug act
Law to clean up food and Medicine. Every needed a label)
Ida Tarbell
Muckraker who wanted to get rid of the standard oil company. Maybe…
Laissez Faire
When the government take their HANDS OFF of the economy.
Bull-Moose Party
Political Party started by Teddy Roosevelt.
19th Amendment
Women suffrage added to the constitution 1919.
Suffragist
Fighting for women’s rights to vote. In 1919.
Temperance movement
Get rid of alcohol !🍺
Jacob Riis
He was a muckraker who show the people how the immigrants lived in the tenements badly
17th Amendment
Senators were being chosen by the state government and it was corrupt practice.
Thomas Nast
Famous political cartoonist.
Upton Sinclair
Author of the jungle (meat horror) 🌭
