Progressive Era Vocab

This amendment allows the federal (national) government to collect taxes on incomes.

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This amendment allows US citizens to directly elect their US Senators instead of their state legislatures, as originally planned in the Constitution.

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This amendment made the production, sale, and distribution of alcohol illegal in the United States (prohibition)

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This amendment gave women the right to vote (the right to vote cannot be denied based on sex)

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This first attempt by the national government to regulate foods and drugs, a law passed in 1906 to remove harmful and misrepresented foods and drugs from the market and regulate the manufacture and sale of drugs and food involved in interstate trade

• Pure Food & Drug Act

• Meat Inspection Act

• Square Deal

• 14 Points

A federal law that banned the sale of bad meats to the American people and required meat inspectors, which still is in place today.

• Pure Food & Drug Act

• Meat Inspection Act

• Muckrakers

• 21st Amendment

journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government

• Progressives

• Muckrakers

• NAACP

• KKK

Wrote The Jungle, which exposed the conditions workers at Chicago meat plants were subjected to and the foods that Americans were buying/consuming.

• Upton Sinclair

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Woodrow Wilson

• Howard Taft

The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.

• Segregation

• Urbanization

• Nativism

• Populism

State and local statutes that legalized racial segregation, or treating races differently, particularly African-Americans.

• Urbanization

• Populism

• Jim Crow Laws

• Direct Primaries