Progressive Era Vocabulary

Muckraker

• Political position

• Spoils System

• Originated from a speech given by President Theodore Roosevelt in which he praised journalists for their role in uncovering corruption and problems.

Reform

• means the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.

• a procedure by which, in certain polities, voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before that official's term has ended.

• a direct vote in which an entire electorate is invited to vote on a particular proposal.

Progressives

• A person who holds extreme political or religious views, especially one who advocates illegal, violent, or other extreme action

• reform movement that reached its height early in the 20th century.

• a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production and workers' self-management

Women's suffrage has to do with what?

• Women being able to vote

• Women being able to drink alcohol

• Women being able to own property

• Women being able to work in factories

What is a referendum?

• A big word

• A change to the constitution

• A direct vote by citizens of an electorate on a change to the constitution

• A vote on a change to the constitution by non-citizens

What is the meaning of Initiative?

• waiting for others to do things

• the ability to assess and initiate things independently.

• creating problems not solving problems

16th Amendment

• Abolished Slavery

• Grants Citizenship to African Americans

• Prohibited Alcohol

• Collecting taxes on income

17th Amendment

• Direct Election of Senators

• Direct Election of the US President

• Direct Election of Governors

• Direct Election of Mayors

18th Amendment

• Prohibits Women's Suffrage

• Prohibits Child Labor

• Prohibits Alcohol

• Prohibits immigrants from entering the country

19th Amendment

• Prohibition

• Raises Voting Age to 21

• Grants Citizenship

• Women's Suffrage