Unit 5, Chapter 28 Flashcards
Muckrakers
-bright young reporters at the turn of the 20th century who won this favorable moniker from Theodore Roosevelt but boosted the circulations of their magazines by writing exposés of widespread corruption in American society
Initiative
- a progressive reform measure allowing voters to petition to have a law placed on the general ballot
- brought democracy directly to the people and helped foster a shift toward interest group politics and away from old political machines
Referendum
- progressive reform procedure allowing voters to place a bill on the ballot for final approval, even after being passed by the legislature
- Device that would place laws on the ballot for final approval of the people
Recall
- progressive ballot procedure allowing voters to remove elected officials from office
- would enable voters to remove faithless elected officials
Australian ballot
- a system that allows voters privacy in marketing their ballot choices
- introduced in the US during the progressive era to help counteract boss rule
Muller vs oregon (1908)
- landmark supreme court case in which crusading attorney Louis D Brandeis persueded the supreme court to accept constitutionalitu of limiting the hours of women workers
- established a different standard for male and female workers
Lochner vs New York (1905)
- A setback for labor reformers
- supreme court casedecision invalidated a state law establishing a 10 hour work day for bakers
- it said that the “right to free contract” was implicit in the due process clause of the 14th amendment
Elkins act (1903)
- law passed by congress to impose penalties on railroads that offered rebates and customers who accepted them
- did away with railroad rebates
- strengthened the interstate commerce act of 1887
Meat inspection act (1906)
-law passes by congress to subject meat shipped over state lines to federal inspection
Pure food and drug act (1906)
- law passed by congress to impact and regulate the labeling of all foods and pharmaceuticals intended for human consumption
- designed to prevent the adulteration and miss labeling of foods and pharmaceuticals
Hetch hetchy valley
-federal government allowed the city of san francisco to build a dam here un 1913
Dollar diplomacy
-name applied to president taft’s critics to the policy of supporting us investments and political interests abroad
Payne-aldrich bill (1909)
- intended to lower tariff rates, but was eventually revised beyond all recognition, retaining high rates on most imports
- passed trying to settle disagreements between the issue of tariffs in the Republican Party
New freedom (1912)
- platform of reforms advocated by woodrow wilson in his first presidential campaign
- includes stronger antitrust legislation to protect small business enterprises from monopolies, banking reform, and tariff reductions
- involved taking action to increase opporitunities for capitalist competition rather than increasing government regulation of large trusts
New nationalism (1912)
- state-interventionist reform program devised by herbert crooy and advocated by theadore roosevelt during his bull moose presidential campaign
- sout to create stronger regulatory agencies to ensure that they opperated to serve tne public interest, not just private gain
Social-justice movement
-people gave more aid to the poor in urban areas
