progressive era Flashcards
(31 cards)
The northern securites case
a anti trust case in 1902 against NS for creating a monopoly of the railroads in newyork, pensilvana, and new england. The government won it’s case anf broke uo the railroad monoploy in the North east.
The coal strike of 1902
A dead lock between pesivlana an west virgina coal mines with uion asking for better wages, safer working conditions and health insurance. Rosevelt woulc eventually force arbiration the workers won 5% wage incrasre, shorted hours and health equipment such as mask and doctors not hired by the company to over see this.
The pure food and drug act
Pushed by rosevlet in 1902, this made truth in advertising, and made it polocy that they have to list ingrdients on both food and drugs.
The hepburn act
The 1906 act gave strenght to the intersate comerce commission to set rates to get ride of rebates for long and short hauls and established a mechanism for oversight of the rail roads that were not used at this point.
mann-elkins act
Under Tuffs administartion this furhter strengthned the interstae commerce commmison by alowing they to await the books of every railroad.
The us forest service
In 1905 about 47 million arces of forest was set aside as protected national forest but the rivers continuted to be polluted. Gifford pnchot ran this.
The sierra club
Founded by John muir, monitred what was being dumped in rivers the use of damns and the water shed.
Presidnet taft’s trust busting
Proscuted standard oil, sugar trust, copper trust and won every case brought to the supreme court. he was also a prominate figure in the rail road.
Initiative
The idea where citizens could initiate legisltion in state legestatures of whitch congress had to vote on.
referendum
a vote by the elctrate/ the people on a particular law.
recall
the abitlty of citizens to oust a elected offical by potietion.
reform of city governments
the development of the city manager and city coucil system taking the power out of the hands of the major.
The sixteenth admendment
A method od redistrubution of wealth, made progressive income tax leagal; the mroe you make the more you pay.
the seventeenth amendment
A attempt to bring democracy, set up the direct election of cenitors by the people.
the eighteenth amendment
Declared prohibition prohibiting transportant manufacturing and sell of alcohol, this was passed in 1919 and was set in 1920.
The elcetion of 1812
included presidental canadates james madison abd dewitt clinton. this took palce during the war and during the first party system.
the bull moose party
A progressive party named after roosevelt after lossing the republican nomination of 1912.
the nineteenth amendment
This gave women the right to vote, hold office and other benifits of ciitznehsip, alice paul wanted more radical.
clayton antitrust act
this allowed the government to prosecute any monopoly that held a monopoly over a segment of the making and distrubution of a product.
federal reserve act
this was a attempt to stablize the economy by controlling state and national banks, set up 12 federal reserve banks set reserve on loans was a bankers bank and almost a national bank.
the federal trade commission act
this set up the federal trade commison which had to authortiy to account of major corportaitons to check for wrong doing.
the adamson act
set up 8 hour work day as a mandate for all railroads with governement contracts.
Ida Tarbell
This was a landmark word of exposay journalism that became knows as “muckraking”. She exposed rockefellers unfair business methods outraged the public and led the government to presecute the company for violations of the sherman anti trust.
Lincoln steffens
his work was closer to a documented sociological case study than to a sensational journalistic expose. He exposed corrupt businessmen whose bribes and greed fueld the entire system of corruption. He also exposed government and helped build support for reform.
