Progressive Era Flashcard

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Reforming means

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Change something for the better!

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What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?

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19th

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Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?

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Upton Sinclair

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What anti monopoly law made all "combinations, contracts, and conspiracies" that restrained free trade illegal (1890)?

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Sherman Antitrust Act

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Which Progressive President used Big Stick Diplomacy and was known as a Trust buster?

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Teddy Roosevelt

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Key Reforms of the Progressive Era
·  Initiative
·  Referendum
·  Recall
·  Direct Primary
·  17^th Amendment

 How did the reforms listed above impact America?

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They gave citizens a greater voice in the democratic process of government.

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Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society

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Muckrakers

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Banned people from making, drinking or selling alcohol

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18th Amendment

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Progressive President who was endorsed originally by Roosevelt (who later runs against him), disliked the presidency, busted up trusts and monopolies

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William H. Taft

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Progressives Thought...

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government should take a more active role in solving society’s problems