Progressivism Vocab

1. Progressivism Vocab US History Honors

2. Progressivism: movement that responds to the pressures of industrialization and urbanization by promoting reform • muckraker: writer who uncovers and exposes misconduct in politics or business • Boss Tweed: political boss of Tammany Hall in NYC • political machine: an organized group that controls a political party in a city and offers services to voters and businesses in exchange for political and financial support

3. referendum: process that allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by a legislature • recall: process by which voters can remove elected officials from office before their term ends • direct primary: election in which citizens themselves vote to select nominees for upcoming elections • initiative: process in which citizens put a proposed new law directly on the ballot

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5. Thomas Nast: political cartoonist who took down Boss Tweed • Meat Inspection Act: (1906) law that allowed the federal government to inspect meat sold across state lines and required federal inspection of meat processing plants • Pure Food and Drug Act: (1906) law that allowed federal inspection of food and medicine and banned the interstate shipment and sale of impure food and the mislabeling of food and drugs

6. temperance movement: movement aimed at stopping alcohol abuse and the problems created by it • suffrage: the right to vote • Nineteenth Amendment: gave women the right to vote • Social Gospel: reform movement that emerged in the late nineteenth century that sought to improve society by applying Christian principles

7. trust busting: the act of dissolving business trusts by promoting antitrust regulations • settlement house: community center organized at the turn of the twentieth century to provide social services to the urban poor • Clayton Antitrust Act: (1914) law that strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act