| A | B |
|---|
| Teddy Roosevelt | Progressive president who became known as the "trustbuster" |
| Underwood Tariff | this dramatically cut the taxes on imported goods under President Wilson |
| Federal Reserve Act | created our current national banking system |
| Bull Moose Party | Teddy Roosevelt's independent party in the 1912 election; its official name was the Progressive Party |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | passed as a reaction to The Jungle; it required labeling on medicines |
| Margaret Sanger | founder of the modern birth control movement |
| Upton Sinclair | author of The Jungle |
| muckrakers | journalists who helped launch the Progressive Movement by writing about the many problems in society |
| W.E.B. DuBois | African American leader who believed that direct action must be taken to demand more rights |
| Newlands Reclamation Act | used money from the sale of public land to build dams for irrigation out west |
| Alice Paul | a radical feminist who wanted suffrage and equal rights for women |
| 19th amendment | this gave all women the right to vote |
| Booker T. Washington | African American leader who believed in accommodation |
| Ida Tarbell | muckraker who wrote The History of the Standard Oil Company |
| Hepburn Act | strengthened the Interstate Commerce Act by giving the national government broader powers to regulate the railroads |
| 16th amendment | created the income tax |
| progressive tax | this places a higher tax rate on those who make more money |
| Clayton Act | this strengthened enforcement of the Sherman Anti-trust Act by more clearly defining what combinations were in restraint of trade |
| 18th amendment | Prohibition; outlawed the sale of alcohol |
| FDA | created to enforce the Pure Food and Drug Act |
| NAACP | organization created in 1910 to push for the rights of minorities |
| ERA | equal rights amendment; supported by Alice Paul in 1921 but it failed to pass |
| Jane Addams | founder of the settlement house movement |
| Australian ballot | the idea of voting in secret |
| workmen's compensation | a state requirement that employers have insurance to pay workers who get injured on the job |
| Gifford Pinchot | a conservationist who Teddy Roosevelt named as our first Chief Forester |
| Jacob Riis | a muckraker who was a photo-journalist; wrote How the Other Half Lives |
| Brownsville incident | 10 Black soldiers were accused of shooting up a Texas town all 167 men in the unit were dishonorably discharged |
| segregation | keeping blacks and whites separate from each other |
| Social Darwinism | the idea of "survival of the fittest"; used to justify racism by many Progressives |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| Populist Party | this had a large influence on the Progressive Movement |
| coal miners | Teddy Roosevelt intervened to support them in a strike |
| money supply | this is controlled by the Federal Reserve |
