US HISTORY I – Mrs. Mosca
Ch. 17 Quiz review
Vocabulary terms
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Progressive movement—E,S,P reforms in America (steps toward progress)
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YMCA—Young Men’s Christian Association
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Florence Kelley—advocate for improving lives of women and children/appointed chief inspector of factories
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Prohibition—banned alcoholic beverages
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17 th amendment—2 senators elected per state (direct election of senators)
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18 th amendment—prohibition (banned manufacture, sale, transportation of alcoholic beverages)
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19 th amendment—women’s suffrage (guarantees all American women the right to vote)
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WCTU—(Women’s Christian Temperance Union) spearheaded the crusade for prohibition
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Muckrakers—journalists who expose the “dirt” and corruption
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Brandeis brief—arguing the amount of hours worked, how it effects efficiency (if employees are working long hours, they are less efficient)—legal argument that made progress in reforming labor laws
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Taylorism—a way to efficiently manage work flow (break jobs into smaller pieces)
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Keating-Owen act—prohibited the transportation of good across state lines that were manufactured by child labor
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Muller v. Oregon—10 hour workday for women
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Bunting v. Oregon—10 hour workday for men
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Initiative—proposed law (bill) that comes from the citizens
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Referendum—vote on an initiative, or other “major” law. Always a yes or no vote
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Recall—voters can petition to have a special election to remove an elected official before their term ends
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Suffrage—the right for women to vote
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Susan B. Anthony—leader and supporter of women’s suffrage
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“bully pulpit”—use office of Presidency to “influence” the media and lawmakers
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Square Deal—series of progressive reforms that were focused on improving domestic America
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Meat Inspection Act—dictated for strict cleanliness requirements for meatpackers /created program of federal meat inspection
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Pure Food and Drug Act—halted the sale
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Conservation—preservation of some wilderness areas and others would be developed for the common good
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Booker T. Washington—black rights advocate; wrote Up from Slavery, advisor to Roosevelt and Taft
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W.E.B. DuBois—helped to establish the NAACP
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NAACP—aimed for full equality of races (National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People)
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“Bull Moose” party—Progressive Party that called for the direct election of senators
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“New Freedom”—Wilson’s attack on trusts, tariffs, and high finance
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Federal Reserve system—created to provide the nation with a safer, more stable financial system.
Created when Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act (1913)
ADD:
16 th Amendment—income taxes
Upton Sinclair—author of The Jungle novel that depicts the horrors in the meatpacking industry