Progressive Era Vocabulary

Progressive Movement

• a movement to elimate problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in government

Prohibition

• the forbidding by law of the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol

Referendum

• process that allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by a legislature

Temperance

• movement aimed at stopping alcohol abuse and the problems created by it

Recall

• process by which voters can remove elected officials from office before their terms end

Strike

• a refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer

Unions

• something formed by uniting 2 or more things
• groups of people or states

Pure Foods and Drug Act

• 1906 law that allowed federal inspection of food and medicine and banned the interstate shipment and sale of impure food and the mislabeling of foods and drugs

Jane Addams

• known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, public administrator, protestor, author, and leader in womens suffrage and world peace

Ida Tarbell

• an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer and lecturer
• she was one of the leading muckrackers of the Progrssive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and pioneered investigative journalism

Florence Kelley

• was a social and political reformer and the pioneer of the term wage abolitionism
• her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, 8 hour workdays, and children's rights is widely regarded today

Initiative

• process in which citizens put a proposed new law directly on the ballot

Upton Sinclair

• was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and others works in several genres
• he is best known for his 1906 expose of the meatpacking industry "The Jungle"

Reform

• make changes in (something to typically a social, political, or economic institutuion or practice) in order to improve it

17th Amendments

• the Senate of the U.S. shall be composed of 2 Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for 6 years (every state will have 2 senators, and they will serve 6-years terms in Congress)

18th Amendment

• established the prohibition of alcohlic beverages in the U.S. by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private posssession) illegal

19th Amendment

• provides men and women with equal voting rights

20th Amendment

• sets the dates at which federal (U.S.) government elected offices end
• it also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies

Muckraker

• writer who uncovers and exposes misconduct in politics or business

Suffrage

• the right to vote

Disenfranchisement

• the state of being deprived of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote

De Facto Segregation

• segregation by unwritten custom or tradition

De Jure Segregation

• segregation imposed by law

Pragmatism

• an approach that assesses the truth of meaning of theories or beliefs in terms of the success of their practical application