| A | B |
|---|
| bosses | political leaders who controlled elections through bribery and payoffs |
| mugwumps | republican reformers who left the Rep. Party after a politician with a corrupt reputation was chosen as the partys 1884 presidential nominee |
| progressives | reformers who began working to improve society in the late 1800s |
| Atlanta Compromise | speech by Booker T. Washington encouraging African Americans to focus on improving their educational and economic well-being |
| 17th Amendment | allowed Americans to vote directly for US senators |
| initiative | reform that gave voters the ability to propose new laws by collecting a certain number of signatures on a petition |
| capitalism | system in which private businesses run most industries and competition determines how much goods cost and how much workers are paid |
| 19th amendment | gave women in the US the vote |
| Society of Am. Indians | group organized to help American Indians on reservations |
| NAACP | group founded by W.E.B. DuBois and others to demand economic and educational equality and to fight racial discrimination |
| Pendleton Civil Service Act | a merit system for awarding federal jobs |
| socialism | gov. or workers own and operate means of production |
| Womans Christian Temperance Union | 1874 - women's reform organization to fight alcohol abuse |
| National Woman's Party | founded in 1913; used controversial methods to help women win the vote |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire | 146 died in fire; more laws made for factory safety standards |
| political machines | organizations that guaranteed votes at election time through both legal and illegal methods |
| 18th Amendment | outlawd "manufacture sale or transportation" of alcholic beverages |
| muckrackers | progressive journalists who wrote about corruption in business and politics |
| Industrial Workers of the World | union created by socialists and union leaders that accepted unskilled workers, immigrants, women, African Americans, and migrant workers |
| initiative | gives voters the ability to propose new laws |
| Tammany Hall | NY City political machine |
| Pendelteon Civil Service Act | Pres. Arthur helped establish a merit system fo rhiring some federal employees |
| Gilded Age President | Grover Cleveland |
| progressives | reformers who began to improve Am. society |
| AFL | one of the most powerful labor unions in the country |
| Anti Saloon League | supported a ban on the production and sale of alcoholic beverages |
| Web DuBois | Af. American activist who took a direct approach in fighting racial injustice and created the NAACP |
| T?F Congress severely restricted immigration from China | true |
| T?F Immigration from Mexico greatled increased | true |
| T?F Bosses were reformers who worked to eliminate gov. corruption | false |
| Pres. Harrison was a Republican who controlled inflation and helped pass the Sherman Antitrust Act | true |
| T?F 17th allowed state legislators to elect US senators | false (it was Americans) |
| T?F Lochner vs. NY supreme court ruled that states were allowed to restrict the workig hrs of ordinary laborers | false |
| T?F Under capitalism private businesses run most industries and competition determines how much goods cost and how much worker are paid | true |
| T?F Progressive era- more women began to not attend college | false---more went |
| T?F Susan B Anthony was president of the National Woman's Party | false |
| T?F Some of the first states to grant owmen full suffrage were in the west | true |
| T?F Ida Wells _Barnett wrote newspaper editorials against lynching | true |
| T?F National Urban League was a group of mayors from large cities who met to discuss urban problems | false |
| T?F Members of the Society of American Indians did not understand the views of INdians on reservations | true |
| Robert La Follette | proposed the Wisconsin Idea to reform state gov. |
| Lawrence Veiller | pushed for the 1901 NY State tenement House Law, which outlawed dark, airless tenement buildings |
| Susan Blow | opened the first Am. kindergarten |
| John Dewey | reformer who used teaching methods to give children critical thinking and problem solving skills |
| Joseph McCormack | led the Am Medical Assoc. to support laws protecting public health |
| Sherman Antitrust Act | used by US Supreme Court to break up Northern Securities railroad monopoly |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | prohibited the manufacture sale or transportation of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs sold across state lines |
| Payne Aldrich Tariff | reduced some tariffs but raised others; criticized by progressives and defended by Taft |
| Richard Ballinger | secretary of the interior who was accused of hurting conservation efforts |
| Gifford Pinchot | his firing by Taft angered many conservationists |
| Upton Sinclair | wrote The Jungle to expose problems in meatpacking industry |
| National Park Service | created to oversee parks and monuments held by the federal government |
| Bull Moose Party | founded by Roosevelt and his supporters after he lost the Rep. presidential nomination to Taft |
| Eugene Debs | social party candidate for president in 1912 |
| WEB DuBois | criticized Wilson for failing to keep campaign promises to help Af. Americans |
| arbitration | opposing sides meet formally to settle disagreements |
| Square Deal | Roosevelts pgm where all citizens were treated fairly |
| muckrackers | journalists who drew public attn. to problems in the food and drug industry |
| conservation | movement attempted to protect nature and its resources |
| Clayton Antitrust Act | strengthened federal laws against business monopolies and directly stated that unions had ther ight to bargain collectively and go on strike |
| Federal Farm Loan Act | made it easier for farmers to get credit |
| conservation | an effort to protect nature and its resources |
| 16th Amendment | allowed gove. to pass direct taxes |
| Adamson Act | limited work day on the country's railroads to 8 hours |
| New Nationalism | Roosevelt's call for a strong executive more active business regulation and more social welfare measures |
| New Feedom | Wilson's plan on action against monopolies |
| Underwood Tarriff Act | measure supported by Wilson that resulted in lowest tarriff rates in many years |
| Federal Reserve Act | act created a national banking system to help regulate the economy |
| Federal Trade Commission | established to investigate and punish unfair trade practices |
| Keating Owen Child Labor Act | companies could not ship across state lines if 14 year olds worked for them |
| preservationists | members of the conservation movement such as John Muir, who believed that nature should be protected because of its beauty |
| wildlife refugees | conservationsists wanted to save endangered animals |
