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| An advocate for improving the lives of women and children. She was appointed chief inspector of factories for Illionois after she had helped to win the passage of factory acts of 1893 |
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1)Protecting social welfare
2)Promoting moral improvement
3)Creating economic reform
4)Fostering efficiency |
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| The act to restore economic opportunity, and correct injustices in America |
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| Illinois Factory act of 1893 |
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| Prohibited child labor and limited women's working hours |
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| The banning of alcoholic beverages |
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| Woman's Christian Temperance Union |
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| This group spearheaded the crusade for prohibition |
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| Journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulation magazines during the 20th century |
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| The application of scientific principles to increase efficiency in the workplace |
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| Republican governor from Wisconsin who brought in political reform on a state |
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| A bill originated by the people rather than lawmakers |
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| Enabled voters to remove public officials from elected positions by forcing them to face another election before the end of their term if enough voters ask |
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| provides for the election of U.S. senators by the people rather than by the state legislatures |
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| NACW(National Association of Colored Women) |
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| African-American women funded this group by merging two earlier organizations. |
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| A leading proponent of Woman suffrage that had helped found the National Women Suffrage Association |
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| The Author of "The Jungle" in order to prove the human condition of the stock yards of Chicago, and reveal the Breaking of human hearts by a system that exploits the labor of men and women for profit |
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| A book which proved that working conditions and food conditions in America were poor, and not okay. |
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| Promised to fix all of the problems that Upton Sinclair pointed out in his book "The Jungle" |
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| The various progressive reforms sponsored by the Roosevelt administration |
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| This act dictated strict cleanliness requirement for meat packers and crated the program of federal meat inspection that was in use until it was replaces by more sophisticated techniques. |
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| This act halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling. |
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| Wilderness areas would be preserved, while some would be developed for the common good. |
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| NAACP(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) |
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| A group that aimed for equality of all races |
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| The head of the U.S. Forest Service under President Roosevelt. He Believed that wilderness areas could be scientifically managed to yield public enjoyment while allowing private development. |
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Progressive era president
Busted a lot of trusts |
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| A compromise that only moderated the high rates of the Aldrich Bill |
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| what used to be known as the Progressive Party, know for the platform that called for the direct election of senators and the adoption in all states of the initiative, referendum, and recall. It advocated Woman Suffrage, workmen's compensation, and many other work-related laws/rules |
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| president; helped start federal reserve act |
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| NAWSA's president who saw victory on the horizon about woman's suffrage. |
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| This act sought to strengthen the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. This act prohibited corporations from acquiring the stock of another if doing so would create a monopoly. |
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| This "Watchdog" Agency was given the power to investigate possible violations of regulatory statutes, to require periodic reports from corporations, and to put an end to a number of Unfair business practices |
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| This system allowed the federal reserve banks to issue new paper currency in emergency situations, and member banks could use the new currency to make loans to their customers. This helped banks from having to close. |
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| Gives women the right to vote |
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| Author of "How the Other Half Lives" describes the poverty, disease, and crime that afflicted many immigrant neighborhoods in New York City |
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| A collection of different ideas and activities |
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| A city's government would be divided into several departments, which would each be placed under control of an expert commissioner |
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| This allowed all party members to elect a candidate to run in general elections |
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| A quaker social worker who headed NAWSA's congressional committee; organized the Washington march |
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| When the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad went bankrupt, stocks fell, and many other companies ended up bankrupt. This lead to a panic of people to trade money for Gold. |
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