Unit 2 Progressive Era Flashcards
Voters can propose legislation directly for a popular vote.
Initiative
The right to vote
Suffrage
Making changes to address abuse of injustice
Reform
The legislature “refers” a matter back to the people for a vote
Referendum
People who believed the US could be reformed socially and politically
Progressives
A way to remove elected officials from office before the end of their term
Recall
Early 20th century journalists exposed corruption & abuses in politics and society.
Muckrakers
Illegal hanging; usually done to blacks by Southern white racists
Lynch
a relationship between persons in which one has the power to manage property and the other has the privilege of receiving the benefits from that property
Trust
Law that creates the Graduated Income Tax
16th Amendment
Direct election of senators
17th Amendment
Law that outlaws alcohol
18th Amendment
Women’s right to vote
19th Amendment
Believed in immediate equality; One of the founders of the NAACP
W.E.B. Dubois
Believed in working to gain equality.
Booker T. Washington
Were state and local laws passed from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the mid-1950s by which white southerners reasserted their dominance by denying African Americans basic social, economic, and civil rights, such as the right to vote.
Jim Crow Laws
Louisiana passed a law that forced African Americas to sit in a separate train cart. Plessy, a 1/8 African American man, got him self purposefully arrested by buying a first class ticket, and planning it with the train company. They argued that it violated the 13th and 14th amendment. After loosing in lower courts, the supreme court upheld the lower courts decisions.
Plessy V. Ferguson
