Populism/Progressive Era

required Americans to pay an income tax

• 16th Amendment
• 17th Amendment
• 18th Amendment
• 19th Amendment

reporters, writers, and social scientists exposed the abuses of industrial society and government corruption.

• Progressive Movement

• Muckrakers

• Temperance Movement

• Initiative

prohibition of the sale, manufacture, transport of alcohol

• 16th Amendment
• 17th Amendment
• 18th Amendment
• 19th Amendment

social reformer that organized a national anti-lynching crusade

• Jane Addams
• Ida Tarbell
• Ida B. Wells
• William H. Taft

a new national political party representing the “common man” – farmers, industrial workers, and miners proposing a 8 hour workday, progressive income tax, government ownership of railroads, free silver  .

• populism
• progressivism
• Bull Moose Party
• Dixiecrat Party

Democratic candidate in the election of 1896 gained support of populist party for his “Cross of Gold “ speech

• Teddy Roosevelt
• William H. Taft
• Woodrow Wilson
• William Jennings Bryan

protected consumers health and welfare by insuring quality products

• Pendleton Service Act
• Interstate Commerce Act
• Pure Food and Drug Act
• Meat Inspection Act

muckraker who wrote of the abuses in the meatpacking industry in “The Jungle”

• Ida B. Wells
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair
• Ida Tarbell

elected officials could be removed from office by special election

• Recall
• Initiative
• Referendum
• Inflation

allows for the direct election of Senators

• 16th Amendment
• 17th Amendment
• 18th Amendment
• 19th Amendment