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The Progressive Era

The Progressive Era. Ch 9 Vocabulary. scientific management. – the application of scientific principles to increase efficiency in the workplace. Florence Kelley. - a social and political reformer. Her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays and children's rights.

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The Progressive Era

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  1. The Progressive Era Ch 9 Vocabulary

  2. scientific management • – the application of scientific principles to increase efficiency in the workplace.

  3. Florence Kelley • - a social and political reformer. Her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays and children's rights.

  4. prohibition • – the banning of the manufacture, sale, and possession of alcoholic beverages.

  5. recall • – a procedure for moving a public official from office by a vote of the people.

  6. progressive movement • – an early – 20th century reform movement seeking to return control of the government to the people, to restore economic opportunities, and to correct injustices in American life.

  7. Robert M. La Follette • – Reform governor of Wisconsin who led the way in regulating big business.

  8. referendum • – a procedure by which a proposed legislative measure can be submitted to a vote of the people.

  9. seventeenth Amendment • – an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, adopted in 1913, that provides for the election fo the U.S. senators by the people rather than by state legislatures.

  10. muckraker • – one of the magazine journalists who exposed he corrupt side of business and public life in the early1900’s.

  11. initiative • – a procedure by which a legislative measure can be originated by the people rather than by lawmakers.

  12. NAWSA • – the National American Woman Suffrage Association – an organization founded in 1890 to gain voting rights for women.

  13. suffrage • – the right to vote.

  14. Susan B. Anthony • - reformer of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, known especially for her advocacy of women's suffrage

  15. The Jungle • – A novel by Upton Sinclair, published in 1906, that portrays the dangerous and unhealthy conditions prevalent in the meat packing industry at the time.

  16. NACW • – National Association of Colored Women – a socils service organiatin founded in 1896.

  17. Upton Sinclair • - United States writer whose novels argued for social reform (1878-1968)

  18. Square Deal • – President Roosevelt’s program of progressive reforms designed to protect he common people against big business.

  19. Meat Inspection Act • – a law, enacted in 1906, that established strict cleanliness requirements for meatpackers and created a federal meat inspection program.

  20. William Howard Taft • - The 27th President of the United States (1909-1913), whose term was marked by antitrust activity and passage of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act (1909).

  21. Theodore Roosevelt • - As president, he upheld many of the interests of the Progressive movement His accomplishments include the breaking up of large monopolies better federal inspection of food, closer federal regulation of railroads, and more conservation of natural resources.

  22. conservation • – the planned management of natural resources, involving the protection of some wilderness areas and the development of others for the common good. • vote.

  23. NAACP • – the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People – an organization founded in 1909 to promote full racial equality.

  24. Gifford Pinchot • - American conservationist and politician who served as chief of the U.S. Forest Service (1898-1910) and later helped found the Progressive Party (1912).

  25. Payne-Aldrich Tariff • – a set of tax regulations, enacted by Congress in 1909, that failed to significantly reduce tariffs on manufactured goods

  26. Federal Reserve System • – a national banking system, established in 1913, that controls the U.S. money supply and availability of credit in the country

  27. Bull Moose Party • – a name given to the Progressive Party, formed to support Theodore Roosevelt’s candidacy for the presidency in 1912.

  28. Pure Food and Drug Act • – a law enacted in 1906 to halt the sale of contaminated foods and drugs and to ensure the truth in labeling.

  29. Woodrow Wilson • -  28th President of the United States; led the United States in World War I and secured the formation of the League of Nations (1856-1924)

  30. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) • – a federal agency established in 1914 to investigate and stop unfair business practices.

  31. Carrie Chapman Catt • - was a women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which gave U.S. women the right to vote.

  32. Nineteenth Amendment • – an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, adopted in 1920, that gives women the right to vote

  33. Clayton Antitrust Act • – a law, enacted in 1914, that made certain monopolistic business practices illegal and protected the rights of labor unions and farm organizations..

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