basing money supply on gold and silver to increase money supply

#silverandgold

sought to use the government to regulate and reform society

#govpower

he was a muckraker that wrote about child labor; The Bitter Cry of the Children was written to expose the terrible child labor conditions.

#exposeCL

this law established the direct election of senators by citizens as a way to expand democracy and bypass the control of political machines

#stoppoliticalmachines

coal miners went on strike, threatening the nation's coal supply

#coaldown

Roosevelt desired this; meant using natural resources in a responsible way that protects the environment.

#reducereuserecycle

this law limited trusts further and helped smaller businesses compete; it also helped labor because it specifically permitted unions and legalized peaceful strikes

#trustlimit

he was a black rights leader; he wanted gradual obtaining rights through individual effort; he felt blacks should earn equality through education and economic progress; he founded the Tuskegee Institute to give blacks education and business skills

#blackrightsleaders

in Wilmington, NC on November 10, 1898; a politically motivated attack by whites (Democrats of the time) against the city's leading African American citizen

#attacked

the supreme court ruled that states could not regulate interstate commerce, including railroads and that it could only be regulated by the federal government

#fedtrade

a six plank platform of goals made by the Populist party

#goals

a muckraker who wrote against the business practices of the Standard Oil Trust

#businessprobs

a muckraker who wrote The Red Record that criticized the unpunished lynching of thousands of blacks

#unlynch

a total ban of alcohol in the U.S.

#alcoholfree

Taft and Roosevelt split the Republican vote, helping Wilson win the most electoral votes; Wilson became the third progressive president

#progressprez

the first FEDERAL agency created to regulate interstate commerce, including railroads

#fedcontrolled

“Cross of Gold” speech—this speech by him promoted bimetallism and won him the Democratic nomination; The Populist Party decided to support him because he supported bimetallism; he campaigned aggressively, traveling thousands of miles and delivering hundreds of speeches

#speechful

muckraker who wrote How the Other Half Lives that exposed poor urban immigrant living conditions; his work led to better housing, plumbing, garbage collection, etc.

#newnew

this gruesome garment factory fire in New York City killed 146 workers; The fire led to improved labor safety codes in New York

#firesafety

his presidency brought NATIONAL momentum to progressivism at the FEDERAL level of government

#firstprogressivemovement

the supreme court broke up J.P. Morgan's railroad trust

#notrust

a progressive wanted to reform trusts, tariffs, banks, and labor; He pledged to go further than Roosevelt regarding trusts—he would destroy, not just regulate, trusts

#destroytrust

this law gave women suffrage nationwide in 1920

#womensrights

felt government-enforced political and social rights came before individual effort; He helped form the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), a black rights organization that pushed to end racial inequality

#poliandsocrights

wire with clusters of short, sharp spikes set at intervals along it, used to make fences or in warfare as an obstruction.

#wiredup

a muckraker who attacked political machine corruptions in his book The Shame of the Cities

#corruptmachines

is the support for or advocacy of improvement of society by reform

#change

a muckraker who wrote The Jungle exposing terrible, unsanitary meat production; his work led to government regulation of food and drug production

#betterfood

progressive governor of Wisconsin pushed for direct primaries and many other states did the same

#primaryvote

contained the “three Cs”—control of corporations, consumer protection, and conservation; was Roosevelt’s policy to balance the needs of ALL Americans

#ccc

was created to regulate the nation’s banks and provide economic stability; Its actions included regulating interest rates and the money supply 

#fedmoney

loss of suffrage rights, which happened due to poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and white intimidation

#lossofprogress