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Ch.21 Terms

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Progressive policy of Theodore Roosevelt--1912 Progressive party platform--favored a more active government role in economic and social affairs--favored continued consolidation of trusts and labor unions and the growth of powerful regulatory agencies in Washington--favored women's suffrage and social welfare programs (including minimum-wage laws and "socialistic" social insurance).
Upton Sinclair's novel that inspired pro-consumer federal laws regulating meat, food, and drugs
preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.
a set of federal acts passed by the United States Congress under the Grant administration along with related state laws.
After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
was created by the Congress to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system.
In 1905 representatives of 43 groups who opposed the policies of American Federation of Labour, formed the radical labour organization.
a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West.
Refers to an incident that took place around and during the play of the 1919 World Series where eight members of the Black Sox were banned for life from baseball for throwing (intentionally losing) games, and essentially giving the series to the Cincinnati Reds after betting on the game.
Former president Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt ran as the Progressive Party candidate, but was unsuccessful in obtaining a presidential win.
this welfare organization came to the us from england in 1880 and sought to provide food, shelter, and employment to the urban poor while preaching temperance and morality.
The most successful political action group that forced the prohibition issue into the forefront of state and local elections and pioneered the strategy of the single-issue pressure group.
an American law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.
which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes
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founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination, to oppose racism and to gain civil rights for African Americans, got Supreme Court to declare grandfather clause unconstitutional
American organization created in 1890 by the merger of the two major rival women's rights organizations—the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association—after 21 years of independent operation.
a serious recession, proved the govt. still had little control over the industrial economy. Conservatives blamed Roosevelt's mad economic policies for the disaster, and the president disagreed, but acted quickly to reassure business leaders that he wouldn't interfere with their private recovery efforts.
the tariff, the banks, and the trusts. Tariffs protected the large industrialists at the expense of small farmers.
Founded in 1874, this organization advocated for the prohibition of alcohol, using women's supposedly greater purity and morality as a rallying point. Advocates of prohibition in the United States found common cause with activists elsewhere, especially in Britain, and in the 1880s they founded the World Women's Christian Temperance Union, which sent missionaries around the world to spread the gospel of temperance.
a management theory using efficiency experts to examine each work operations and find ways to minimize the time needed to complete it
a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. Miners struck for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union.
a public office or position of authority that provides its occupant with an outstanding opportunity to speak out on any issue.
Young Men's and Women's Christian Associations; established before Civil war and combined physical and other kinds of education with religious teachings.