Progressive Vocab

Prohibition

Transportation systems designed to move large numbers of people

The more you earn, the more you pay in taxes

Created to investigate and stop unfair business practices

Organization to promote full racial equality.

Organized group that controls a political party in city governments

Direct election of senators

Required Federal inspection of meat processing

Which one was not a reform of the Progressives?

An election to remove an elected official

Women's Suffrage

Voters can propose a law

An office holder's power to appoint people; usually friends or supporters

Writers who exposed social, political, and economic problems

National banking system created in 1913

Wanted gradual integration for blacks

Who was for immediate integration of blacks

People vote on a bill that has been brought up by the legislature

The illegal use of political influence for personal gain

Outlawed impure or diluted foods and created the FDA

1900 - 1914 that saw the greatest action by reformers

Helped the poor and immigrants assimilate into American society

Provided for a graduated income tax