A group of political reformers who struggled to make gov't more responsible to the people

Journalists who wrote about corrupt side of business and public life

Banning of alcoholic

A bill originated by the people rather than the lawmakers.

A vote on an initiative

Enabled voters to remove public officials from elected office

direct election of senators by voters in direct primaries

An advocate for improving the lives of women and children

Progressive Wisconsin governor who attacked machine politics / wanted direct primaries

The right to vote

A suffragette who was president of the National Women's Suffrage Association, and founder of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. Instrumental in obtaining passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.

Prohibiton worker who used a hatchet to destroy liquior bottles

National American Woman Suffrage Association, founded in 1890 to help women get the right to vote.

the National Association of Colored Women—a social service organization founded in 1896.

Women's suffrage leader. She formed the National Women's Suffrage Association with Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Susan B. Anthony's main assistant during her effort to help women gain the right to vote.

Progressive muckraker who wrote The Jungle which led to the creation of the meat inspection act because he detailed the nauseating conditions of the meatpacking industry

Upton Sinclair's book exposing the sickening conditions of the meatpacking industry

Theodore Roosevelt's reform program to see to it that the common people received fair treatment from businesses that had victimized them in the past

1906 act inspired by Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle, read by Theodore Roosevelt . It dictated strict cleanliness requirements for meatpackers and created federal meat inspection

passed by congress to halt the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling

Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People started by African Americans to promote Civil Rights change

Became President after the assassination of McKinley, youngest person to hold office, conservationist, first modern President

Head of the US forest service under Roosevelt, who believed that it was possible to make use of natural resources while conserving them

This Speaker of the House tried to block many Progressive Republican efforts for reforming government and society. Taft was unable to control him leading to the split of the Republican Party

Basis of national banking system, which organizes banks by dividing the nation's banks into 12 districts and established a regional national bank in each district

Wrote a monthly serial in McClure's magazine that exposed Standard Oil's monopoly and cutthroat methods to eliminate competition.

granted women the right to vote, ratified 1920

Watchdog agency with the power to investigate possible violations of regulations, require periodic reports from corporations, and put and end to many unfair business practices

Woodrow Wilson

Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws

Progressive party that split from the Republican party. It was renamed after Theodore Roosevelt's boast that he was as strong as a bull moose

Wilson's congress prohibited corporations from acquiring stock of another if doing so would create a monopoly

President of the USA, former governor of New Jersey, Princeton University president

1912 Socialist Candidate

He used the assembly line to improve efficiency in making cars, caused robotic work, but paid people more and shortened work day to 8 hours to avoid workers striking

legalized a graduated federal income tax, which provided revenue by taxing individuals earning and corporate profits

abolished slavery

Prohibition of alcohol

progressive that ran for office after Teddy Roosevelt's presidency (he decided not to run). He had support from big business and caused a split in the republican party

Vague language of this act to abolish trusts made it difficult to enforce suits against trusts made by the justice department (used by Roosevelt)

U.S. cannot prevent a person from voting because of race, color, or creed

Tariff bill passed by Taft that made progressives angry because it compromised and raised tariff, which Taft said he would not do when he ran for president

Co-founded the NAACP to help secure legal equality for minority citizens.

An astronomer who discovered a comet and was the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Which Party won the 1912 Presidential election

Which party did Taft belong

Which party was known as the Bull Moose Party

Which party nominated Wilson for President

Which party split over the Payne-Aldrich Tariff

Which party ran the most conservative candidate

Nominated Eugene Debs

Nominated Roosevelt during his 2 terms

Nominated a candidate to serve a 3rd term

Fired PInchot because of Conservation ideas

Endorsed a program called New Freedom,stronger antitrust, lower tarriffs

Nominated Roosevelt in 1912

This wasa one of the inspirations for the creation of the assembly line at Ford

The progressive movement was successful in getting child labor laws at the federal level

3 main reasons to support temperance