Progressive Era Flashcards
(24 cards)
Federal Trade Commission
Woodrow Wilson; consumer protection and antibusiness
Federal Reserve
Woodrow Wilson; controls money and inflation rates
Progressive Presidents and their major reforms: Wilson
prohibition, women’s suffrage, Keating child labor act, Clayton Anti-trust, federal reserve and FTC
Progressive Presidents and their major reforms: Roosevelt
National Parks, Sherman Antitrust Act, Meat Inspection/FDA
Progressive Presidents and their major reforms: Taft
Children’s Bureau, Department of Labor, direct election
Trustbusting
Consumer Protection
Conservation
Corporate Control
Bully pulpit
a new power Roosevelt introduced to the role of President; being able to use their popularity to urge congress to get stuff done
Initiative
people make a law and the state is expected to support it
Referendum
when send out a law proposal to the public to vote on
Recall
a do over election
W.E.B. Dubois
urged for total equality; wasn’t willing to compromise or accommodate racist views; criticized Booker W.
Booker T. Washington
was accommodationist; willing to settle for some equality; urged blacks to take what they can get
Plessy v Ferguson
made segregation constitutional; freed slave wanted to ride in white upper class train car;
13th amendment
abolished slavery
14th amendment
granted citizenship to everyone born and naturalized
15th amendment
African Americans could vote
16th amendment
federal income tax; Wilson
17th amendment
direct election of senators; Taft/Wilson
18th amendment
prohibition: Wilson
19th amendment
women’s suffrage
Political Machine
the endless loop of businessmen bullying people into voting for them; extreme corruption
Upton Sinclair
food. consumer safety; the Jungle
Jacob Riis
worker safety and public health
Jim Crow laws
reinforced segregation
