| A | B |
|---|
| Progressive movement | aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct injustices in American life. |
| Florence Kelly | advocate for improving the lives of women and children |
| prohibition | banning of alcoholic beverages |
| Carry Nation | Ax carrying grandma who went into bars and smashed bottles of liquor |
| muckrackers | investigative journalists who uncovered and wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life |
| Ida Tarbell | Wrote about Standard Oil's cutthroat business practices |
| McClure's Magazine | best selling muckracker magazine |
| scientific management | idea that efficiency could be improved by breaking manufacturing tasks into simpler parts. |
| Taylorism | Names after Winslow Taylor, it was the process of using time and motion studies to more quickly make a product |
| assembly line | This was scientific managment at work in the factories. |
| Robert M. La Follete | Progressive, Republican Governor in Wisconsin who led the way to regulating big business. |
| Lewis Hine | Famous photographer who made it his mission to expose the plight of child labor. |
| Bunting v. Oregon | Court Case the limited the ten hour work day for men. |
| Keating-Owen Act 1916 | Case that made it illegal to transport across state lines any goods produced by children. |
| Initiative | A bill that was originated by the people rather than lawmakers. |
| Recall | Enables voters to remove public officials from elected positions by forcing them to face another election if enough voters demand it. |
| Referendum | a vote on an initiative. |
| Seventeenth Amendment | Made the direct election of senators the law of the land instead of senators being chosen by state legislatures. |
| suffragette | Women who demanded the right to vote |
| Susan B. Anthony | leading proponent for woman's suffrage or the right to vote. |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Progressive president who introduced the SQUARE DEAL, a vow to correct inustices through progressive reforms. |
| Square Deal | Progressives Reforms under Theodore Roosevelt |
| The Jungle | Book written by Upton Sinclair that describes the horrible conditions in a Chicago meat packing plant. |
| Meat Inspection Act | Passed after Theodore Roosevelt read THE JUNGLE. The law dictated strict cleanliness for meatpackers. |
| Conservation Movement | Setting aside public lands to stay untouched by mining, lumber cutting, or drilling. America's national parks are created through this movement. |
| Trust Busting | When the federal government went after monopolies and broke them apart. |
| Arbitration | Used by Roosevelt when Pennsylvania coal miners went on strike in 1902. It forced both the company owners and strikers to compromise through the use of a neutral third party who mediated or be taken over by the government. |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | Halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for TRUTH on the labeling. |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that aimed for FULL equality among the races. |
| William Howard Taft | Progressive President after Roosevelt who took a less motivated approach to reform than Roosevelt angering the Progressive Party. |
| Gifford Pinchot | Head of the US Forest Service, fired by Taft after criticizing Taft's allowment of conserved lands to be turned back for private development. |
| Bull Moose Party | Created by Theodore Roosevelt in response to the Taft Administration's lack of reform progress. The new party splits the Republican party in two. |
| Woodrow Wilson | Democrat President who wins after the split in the Republican Party. President during World War One |
| Federal Reserve System | Established 12 districts across the US and gave each district a Federal Reserve Bank. A "banker's bank". Wilson. |
| Sixteenth Amendment | Established the Federal Income Tax which taxed individual earnings and corporate profits. |
| 19th amendment | Gave woment the right to vote. Ratified in 1920, 72 years after women first demanded the right at Seneca Falls. |
