Progressivism Vocabulary

movement that responded to the pressures of industrialization and urbanization by promoting reforms

• Progressivism

• Populism

• Industrialization

• Westward Expansion

writer who uncovers and exposes misconduct in government or business

• muckraker

• 17th Amendment

• recall

• Plessy v. Ferguson

reform movement that emerged in the late nineteenth century that sought to improve society by applying Christian principles

• Social Gospel

• Social Darwinism

• Nativism

• temperance

community center organized at the turn of the twentieth century to provide social services to the urban poor

• Settlement House

• Boarding School

• Boys + Girls Club

• 18th Amendment

process in which citizens put a proposed new law directly on the ballot

• initiative

• recall

• referendum

• jim crow

process that allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by a legislature

• recall

• referendum

• initiative

• temperance

process by which voters can remove elected officials from office before their term ends

• recall

• referendum

• initiative

• temperance

1913 constitutional amendment that gave Congress the authority to levy an income tax

• 16th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

1913 constitutional amendment that allowed for the direct election of U.S. senators by citizens

• 16th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

constitutional amendment banning the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol in the United States

• 16th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment