Progressive Era Vocabulary

Progressive

• To change & move forward

• Expand US borders

• Tension with Russia

• Age of technology

Reform

• To Change

• To Annul

• To Repeal

• To Speculate

Populist Party were mainly what type of demographic?

• Farmers

• Railroad Workers

• Steel Workers

• Immigrants

Which one of the Populist ideas did not became a law?

• Silver Coinage

• Income Tax

• Immigrant Restriction

• Direct Vote for Senators

Muckraker

• Progressives that exposed government corruption

• Immigrants that created their own political parties

• African-Americans that united demanding Affirmative Action

• The use military force in Central America

The Jungle

• Written by Upton Sinclair that portrayed the harsh conditions & working conditions of the meat industry

• Written by Alfred Thayer Mahan and explained the necessity of a large navy

• Written by Andrew Carnegie explaining how the wealthy needed to contribute to the less fortunate through philanthropy

• Written by Booker T. Washington that covered law and education of African-Americans in the US.

Pure Food & Drug Act

• Preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors

• Political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole

• The practice or policy of favoring individuals belonging to groups known to have been discriminated against previously

• The exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.

Unions

• Organization of workers that strive for better treatment

• President power to reject a congressional law

• Judicial Review of the Supreme Court

• Court Cases that change US history

Compensation

• Pay for injured workers

• Payment for mistreated African-Americans

• Immigrants that invest in the stock market

• Newspapers publishing exaggerated stories

Sherman Antitrust Act

• Break apart monopolies that prevented competition

• System of tariffs to prevent inflation

• Reason behind the Stock Market crash of 1929

• Legislature signed for gender equality