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| Florence Kelley | Champion for poor women and children. She lived in settlement houses and helped to pass the Illinois Factory Act of 1893. |
| Prohibition | banning alcoholic beverages. Also called the 18th Amendment. |
| Women's Christian Temperance Union | WCTU. Members would sing, pray, and urge salons to stop selling alcohol. |
| muckrakers | investigative journalists who exposed the corruption in business, politics, and public life. |
| The Jungle | Written by Upton Sinclair, this book grossed out so many people with it's description of the meat packing that the MEAT INSPECTION ACT was passed. |
| Ida Tarbell | Muckraker who exposed the corruption of John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil. |
| Robert M. La Follette | "Fighting Bob". Senator from Wisconsin that targeted the corruption in RAILROAD. |
| Initiative | Bill originated by the people instead of the legislature. |
| referendum | vote on the initiative. |
| Seventeenth Amendment | Direct election of senators instead of being chosen by each state's legislature or party bosses. |
| NACW | National Association of Colored Women whose mission was the moral education of their race. |
| Susan B. Anthony | Founder of the NWSA or National Women Suffrage Association. |
| Suffrage | The Right to vote. |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Youngest president at 42. Progressive. Nicknamed the "Trust Buster" but didn't do that much busting. |
| Federal Trade Commission | Agency to regulate trade and business. Supposed to break up monopolies but had little power in the beginning. |
| Sherman Anti-Trust Act | Law that brought monopolies or trusts to court. Only 7 out of 44 trusts were broke up by the law. |
| 1902 Coal Mine Strike | Roosevelt intervened and threatened to take over the mine if the owners did not negotiate with the workers. |
| Square Deal | Roosevelt Political Platform to give common people a fair deal. |
| Meat Inspection Act | Passed after The Jungle was written by Upton Sinclair, a muckraker. |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | Halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling. |
| Conservation | Roosevelt's conservation did not completely protect the wilderness. Instead, he promoted fair use, some areas would be preserved and others developed for the common good. WATER PROJECTS were a favorite of Roosevelt. |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Goal was complete equality of the races. |
| William Howard Taft | Progressive President after Roosevelt. Angered progressives when he signed the Payne-aldrich Tariff and angered Roosevelt when he fired Gifford Pinchot. |
| Bull Moose Party or Progressives | Party started by Roosevelt when he sought a third term even though Taft was already on the Republican ticket. |
| Republican Party Split | Roosevelt split the party with the Bull Moose Party or Progressives guaranteeing the Democrats a win with Woodrow Wilson. |
| Woodrow Wilson | Third Progressive President. |
| Federal Income Tax or Sixteenth Amendment | Wilson's progressive reform. Graduated taxes for incomes. Larger incomes were taxed at a higher rate than lower incomes. |
| Federal Reserve System | Wilson's progressive reform. The Reserve established a private banking system under FEDERAL CONTROL. |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | Suffragette who used new tactics to gain the necessary votes to pass the 19th amendment. Door to door campaigns, fasting, picketing the White House |
| Nineteenth Amendment | Granted the right to vote to women, 72 years AFTER women first convened and demanded the right to vote at the SENECA FALLS CONVENTION. |
