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| 1890 to 1920. Sought to improve the lives of the industrial poor. |
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| Journalists who alerted the public to wrongdoing in politics and business. Theodore Roosevelt made up this term after the word that means clean manure (poop) and hay out of horse stables. |
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| Court orders that prohibit a certain activity. Example: Court order that would prevent workers from going on strike to fight for better working conditions. |
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| Government programs to help ensure a minimum standard of living. Examples are unemployment benefits, social security system. |
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| municipal (level of government) |
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| The city level of government as opposed to the state or federal level of government. |
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| A system that gives cities a limited degree of self-rule. It allows cities to escape domination by state government controlled by political machines or businesses or rural interests. |
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| Voters select their party's candidate for upcoming elections. Before the Progressive Era, party leaders chose the candidates. |
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| A process in which voters can put a proposed new law directly on a ballot in the next election by collecting voter's signatures on a petition. Before the Progressive Era, only members of the state legislature could introduce a bill. |
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| A process that allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by the legislature. Before the Progressive Era, only legislators could pass laws. |
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| A procedure that permits voters to remove public officials from office before the next election. Before the Progressive Era, only courts or the legislature could remove corrupt officials. |
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Progressive Era Political Reforms |
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1. Direct primaries
2. 17th Amendment (elect Senators by populr vote)
3. Initiatives
4. Referendum
5. Recall |
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| A firm that buys up stock and bonds of smaller companies. They do this to create a monopoly (one big company who sells the product). |
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| People who favor the protection of natural resources. Taft's Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger was not a conservationist and it angered conservationists. |
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| Theodore Roosevelt's plan that called for business regultion, welfare laws, workplace protection for women and children, income and inheritance taxes, and voting reform. |
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| The nickname of the Progressive Party. Referred to Roosevelt's comment " I feel fit as a bull moose." |
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| Law that spelled out specific activities business could not do, such as preventing companies from price cutting in local markets to squeeze out competitors OR preventing holding companies used to create monopolies. |
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| Wilson created this commission. Had the power to order firms to cease and desist from unfair business practices. |
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| Wilson's way of changing the banking system. It divided the country into 12 districts each with a federal reserve bank. Helped prevent bank failures and created new national currency called federal reserve notes. |
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| Wilson reform. Farmers could borrow money from a system of loan banks at rates less than other commercial banks. |
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| A nonviolent refusal to obey the law in an effort to change it. Used a lot by women in their effort to gain the right to vote. |
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| National American Women's Suffrage Association |
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| Formed by Susan B. Anthony, Elzabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone to seek the right to vote for women. They suggested reforms, talked to politicians, and investigated social conditions. |
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| Formed by Alice Paul. This group called for an aggressive. militant campaign for the 19th Constitutional Amendment. Set afire a lifesize dummy on President Wilson. Their strategy was opposed by the National American Women's Suffrage Association. |
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