Progressive Era - Vocab Flashcards
(16 cards)
Period of time where there is a large ECONOMIC GAP between the wealthy & the poor…
- Characterized by social activism & political change
- 1890s - 1920s
Progressive Era / Gilded AGe
REFORMERS who wanted POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, & SOCIAL CHANGE during the 1900s…
- Improve American life, protect consumers, end political corruption
- Hoped to ELIMINATE corruption and injustice
Progressives
A person who has CONTROL over a political party’s financing of campaigns & influence through owing favors & electing friends/supporters to important positions…
Political Bosses
An ELECTION IN WHICH VOTERS, rather than party leaders CHOOSE THEIR PARTY CANDIDATE…
Primary
A process in which CITIZENS can place PROPOSED LAWS on the ballot without the legislature voting on it first - requires signatures from citizens to show support….
Initiative
A way for PEOPLE (CITIZENS) TO VOTE DIRECTLY on a law or repeal an act of the Legislature…
Referendum
A process by which people may vote to REMOVE AN ELECTED OFFICIAL from office before the end of their term…
Recall
A method of taxation that taxes people at different rates (percentages) depending on income…
Graduated Income Tax
Allows the Federal Government (Congress) to collect an INCOME TAX (1913)…
16th Amendment
The PEOPLE VOTE DIRECTLY for U.S. Senators (1913)…
17th Amendment
A person who INVESTIGATES & PUBLISHES SCANDAL & CORRUPTION regarding political AND business leaders, as well as brings light to SOCIAL INJUSTICES…
Muckrakers
Novel written by Upton Sinclair in 1906 - Portrayed the harsh conditions & oppressed lives of immigrants working in the MEATPACKING INDUSTRY in Chicago…
“The Jungle”
Law that required food & drug makers to list ingredients on their packages & inspection of products…
Pure Food & Drug Act (FDA) - 1906
Organized effort during the 19th and early 20th centuries to LIMIT or OUTLAW the consumption and production of ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES in the United States…
Temperance Movement - “Drys”
BAN on the manufacturing, distribution & sale of alcohol…
-18th Amendment to the Constitution = PROHIBITION AMENDMENT
Prohibition
Banned the sales of alcoholic beverages
-Ratified in 1919
18th Amendment
