| A | B |
|---|
| Progressive movement | People who wanted to improve conditions for all Americans |
| Progressives | More self confident and optimistic than the populist reformers who had preceded them |
| Social gosip | Theory that the people are moraly obligated to help those who are less fortunate |
| Muckrakers | People who exposed the corrupt activities of the political boses |
| Golden rule | Samuel M. Jones enforced the rule at his factory; "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" |
| Wisconsin idea | Program of progressive reforms by the govenor Robert M. La Follete of Wisconsin in the early 1900s |
| Direct primary | To give voters more control over who ran for public office |
| Primary elections | Process for selecting cantidates to run for public office |
| Lobbyists | Those who urge legislatures to pass laws favorable to special intrests |
| Initiative | Enables voters to propose laws when the state legislatures have not done so |
| Referendum | A particular proposal could be placed on the ballot to be decided by the yes or no votes of the people at a regular election |
| Recall | Allowed voters to remove an elected official before the official's term expired |
| Seventeenth ammendment | Constitutional ammendment that provided for the election of senators by popular vote |
| Municipal socialism | Plan that transferred private ownership of utilities to city governments |
| Socialists | Favored government ownership of all the means of production |
| Free enterprise | Economic system where there is limited govetnment control over business |
| Triangle fire | New York factory fire that killed more than 140 women and prompted the passing of factory inspection laws |
| Minimum wage | Least amount of pay a worker can recieve by law |
| Btandeis breif | Argument by Louis D. Brandeis before the supreme court, that long work hours injured the health of women and children, and therefore the community |
| Trust buster | Person who wants to dissolve an established trust |
| Restraint of trade | Interference of the free flow of goods or with fair competition |
| Northern securitres case | Anti trust lawsuit in which the supreme court dissolved the combination of three major railroads |
| Hepburn act | The commision could inspect the business records of the railroad companies to see how much money they were making |
| Pure food and drug act | Provided for federal control of the quality of most foods and drugs, and for the supervision of slaughterhouses |
| Conservation | Protection or preservation of natural resources from waste or loss |
| Progressive party | Third party formed to support Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 |
| Bull moose party | Nickname given to the progressive party when Theodore Roosevelt ran for president in 1912 |
| New nationalism | Constitutional ammendment that gave women the right to vote; Theodore Roosevelt's new platformin 1912 |
| Welfare state | It said that the government should be prepared to do "whatever the public welfare may request" |
| New freedom | Woodrow Wilson's progressive program proposed in 1912 |
| Underwood tarrif | Allowed food products,iron and steel,agricultural machinery-things that could be produced more cheaply in the U.S. than abroad-to enter the country without any tarrif |
| Income tax | Tax on a person's earnings |
| Sixteenth ammendment | Authorized federal income taxes |
| Federal reserve act | Created 12 federal reserve districts,each with a federal reserve bank |
| Federal reserve board | Supervised the federal reserved banks |
| Clayton anti trust act | Made it illegal for directors of one corporation to be the directors of other corporations in the same field |
| Federal trade commision | Conducted investigations of large corporations, and could order them to "cease and desist" illegal activities |
| Gentleman's agreement | Signed in 1907 by U.S and Japan. Japan promised not to allow any unskilled workers to come to America |
| Melting pot | Idea that immigrants of various racial and cultural backgrounds eventually became adapted to mainstream American ways |
| Niagara movement | Effort begun in 1905 by prominent African American leaders to fight racial segregation |
| National Assossiation for the Advancement of Colored People (NCAAP) | A civil rights organization formed in 1909 |
| Great war | Name given to WWI, which broke out in Europe in 1914. Started to turn Americans' attention away from progressive reforms |
