TPAH Unit 8 - Progressive Era

Amendment that create the income tax

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

Amendment that banned alcohol & started the Prohibition Era

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

Amendment that started the direct election of senators to Congress by the people within the state they represent

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

Amendment that gave women suffrage everywhere in the country

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable genetic characteristics

• muckrakers

• eugenics

• social Darwinism

• conservation

A group of women who advocated total abstinence from alcohol and who worked to get laws passed against alcohol. It proved 2 things: women could be politically effective and a LOT of people supported Prohibition.

• NAACP

• WCTU

• Muckrakers

• Suffragists

Interracial organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination and to achieve political and civil rights for African Americans.

• NAACP

• WCTU

• Muckrakers

an 1890 law that banned the formation of trusts and monopolies in the United States

• the Trust Buster Act

• the Smoot AntiTrust Act

• the Sherman AntiTrust Act

Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public

• muckrakers

• investigative journalists

• Yellow Journalists

a domestic program formed upon 3 basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection

• Roosevelt's Big Stick Diplomacy

• Roosevelt's Square Deal