1. Progressives
People who believed that industrialization and urbanization had created serious problems within American Society at the turn of the century
Called for Political, Social, and Economic Reforms

2. Muckrakers
Progressives that exposed the dirty messy corruption of injustices in the workplace
Criticized politicians for their bribery

3. Lewis Hine Progressive Reformer Muckraker
Used Photos to shed light on the injustices for children in the work place

4. Jacob Riis Progressive Reformer Muckraker
Used Photos and writing to shed light on the poor living conditions in the tenements for immigrants
How the Other Half Lives

5. The Jungle Written By Upton Sinclair
Talked about the problems in the Meat Packing industry
Led to the Pure food and Drug Act

6. Pure Food and Drug Act Required the Labeling of all food products
Consumer must be made aware of what is in the product
Allowed government to regulate Interstate trade of meat products and inspect them.

7. Spoils System
Practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs
Ended by the civil service commission

8. Civil Service Commission
Administered the Civil Service Exam so that the most qualified recipient would receive the job
Put an end to the spoils system

9. Boss Tweed Gave money to secure votes (Bribery)
Was exposed by famous Cartoonist, Thomas Nast
Politician that controlled work done locally and demanded payoffs from it
Popular because he gave poor jobs and turkeys

10. Interstate Commerce Act
Forbid Rebates
regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. The Act required that railroad rates be "reasonable and just,"

11. Temperance Movement
Achieved reform by supporting the constitutional 18th amendment the prohibition of alcohol
Supported by Women’s Clubs
Cause that many suffragists took up

12. 19th Amendment Granted women Suffrage
Cause the women like Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton fought for social reform
Women who fought for the cause were known as suffragists

13. Anti-Semitism
hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group.

14. NAACP
mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all

15. Theodore Roosevelt
Was elected to office after the 25th president William McKinley was shot
Known for destroying trusts and monopolies
First President to side with Strikers

16. Progressive Party Nicknamed the Bull Moose Party
Theodore Roosevelt left the Republican Party and helped create a 3rd party for America in 1912

17. Socialist Party
economy and society should be run democratically—to meet public needs, not to make profits for a few
Presidential Candidate Eugene V Debs
do not want big corporations to control society

18. Trustbusting Destroying Bad Trusts and Monopolies
Destruction of the Northern Securities Railroad Monopoly
Utilized the rules set up under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Good Trusts must be controlled and bad trusts broken

19. Sherman Antitrust Act - Regulated the power of big business
Prohibits monopolies from driving up prices by destroying competition

20. Monopoly a business that's the only provider of a good or service.
That gives it a tremendous competitive advantage over any other company
Can increase prices because it has eliminated competition

21. Square Deal Everyone should have the same opportunity to succeed
Political platform created by T.R.

22. Conservation Protection of Natural resources
Example is a National Park an area protected by and run by the Federal Government

23. Federal Reserve Act Created the Federal Reserve System
Established the central banking system of the United States
Was granted the legal authority to issue Money

24. Transcontinental Railroad
Railway that spanned the United States from the East to West Coast
Cattle was driven to the railway to bring it from the West to cities in the East
Led to the growth of towns and villages

25. Ellis Island
Was used a the processing center for immigrants coming to America from Europe

26. Wisconsin Idea Appointed Commissions to solve problems
Adopted the Primary so that voters could choose the Party Candidates

27. Recall
Ability to vote out or remove and elected official from office that is corrupt

28. Initiative
Allows voters to propose a bill that eventually could become a law

29. Referendum
When voters take the opportunity to vote directly on a new law

30. 16th Amendment Right to pass an income tax
Would eventually allow for Progressive Income Tax

31. 17th Amendment
Direct Election of Senators

32. Woodrow Wilson 28th President of the United States
Was Southern Democrat
Most well known of the Keating- Owen Child Labor Act of 1916
Sought to address child labor by prohibiting the sale of interstate commerce goods produced by children under fourteen and from mines with children younger than sixteen

33. James Garfield President that was assassinated in 1881.
Succeeded by Chester Arthur

34. Howard Taft 27th President of the United States Republican
Worked to decrease Tariffs actually increased them
Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909

35. Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act
raising certain tariffs on goods entering the United States. The high rates angered Republican reformers, and led to a deep split in the Republican Party.

36. Booker T. Washington
prominent black educator and racial leader of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
He founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1881 and oversaw its growth into a well-respected black university.