Progressive Era Chapter 18

Home devoted to improving conditions for the immigrant poor.

Law prohibiting the manufacture, sale and transport of alcohol.

Group established to investigate and prohibit unfair business practices.

Teddy Roosevelt's policy focused on conservation, corporate control, and consumer protection.

The ability to cast popular votes on public policies is called a referendum.

Movement to establish federal reserve lands free from economic development is called the Conservation Movement.

Founder of the NAACP and supporter of immediate black equality.

The right of a union to negotiate contract terms with management is called Collective Bargaining

Teddy Roosevelt pushed the regulatory power of the government as a way to help the nation.

Group created by WEB DuBois to advocate for immediate social, political and economic rights for black people.

A political movement for change in America's social and political life.

Headed the Tuskegee School. Supporter of black skilled labor to make economic progress as opposed to political action.

A Political party aimed at democratic control over sectors of the economy and equal treatment of the people.

Journalists working to expose the wrongs of American society.

Led by Margaret Sanger it helped identify and support women's health initiatives.

Philosophy that said institutions must be judged on practical outcomes not longevity or religious belief.

The Progressive Party was defined by Roosevelt as the party of national reform.

Law establishing the graduated income tax.

The 19th Amendment was a law allowing for the direct election of US Senators.

Law giving women the right to vote (1920).

Act to protect American consumers from adulterated food products like meat (1906).

Trade unionists and worker revolutionaries mobilizing those excluded by the AFL.