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Spanish American War - womens suffreage
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Trust Buster
President Theodore Roosevelt's policy of prosecuting monopolies, or "trusts," that violated federal antitrust law. -
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
A treaty signed on November 18, 1903, by the United States and Panama, that established the Panama Canal. -
Upton Sinclair's The jungle
novel depicts in harsh tones poverty, absence of social programs, unpleasant living and working conditions, and hopelessness prevalent among the working class, which is contrasted with the deeply-rooted corruption on the part of those in power -
ballinger-pinchot controversy
Dispute between U.S. Forest Service Chief Gifford Pinchot and U.S. Secretary contributed to the split of the Republican Party before the 1912 -
16th admendment
Tax rich, not poor; allows tariff, price reduction. -
Underwood-simmons Tariff
Lowers taxes lowered basic tariff rates from 40% to 25% -
Louis Brandeis Other peoples money
In 1912, Woodrow Wilson campaigned for President using many Progressive ideas about strengthening the economy: banking reform, tariff reduction and the elimination of monopolies and trusts. -
Clayton Anti trust Act
Clayton Antitrust Act, 1914, passed by the U.S. Congress as an amendment to clarify and supplement the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. -
Herbert Croly The promise of American Life
Very influential Prog book; argued needed strong Hamilton Federalist style gov't to intervene to protect people from eco abuses. -
Jacob Riis
photograaphed slums & his books showed deplrable urban conditions. -
Theodore Drieser Maggie, A Girl of the streets; An American Tragedy
The U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) between the industrial North and the agricultural, slave-owning South was a watershed in American history. -
Fourteen points
Plan for peace after WWI including self determanations & League of Nations -
Steel strike
The strike began on September 22, 1919, and collapsed on January 8, 1920. -
18th amendment
Prohibits the making, transportation, and sale of alcoholic bevrages. -
Marcus Garvey
Advocated pride in African Heritage (black pride) & back to Africa for full equality. -
Jane Addams, Hull House, Settlement houses
magazines publish muckrakers' exposes, opened its doors to the recently arrived European immigrants. became the standard bearer for the movement that had grown, by 1920. -
Ida Tarabell History of the standard oil company
leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era, work known in modern times as "investigative journalism". She is best known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company, -
Carrie Nation & Antisaloon League of America
Temperance movements may criticize excessive alcohol use, promote complete abstinence (teetotalism), or pressure the government to enact anti-alcohol legislation or complete prohibition of alcohol. -
Salvation Army& Social Gospel Movment (Wm, Rauschenbusch)
A Christian theologian and Baptist minister. He was a key figure in the Social Gospel movement in the United States of America. -
Lincoln Steffens The shame of the cities
New York reporter who launched a series of articles in McClure’s titled the Shame of the Cities. He is famous for investigating corruption in municipal government.
