Progressive era

16th

income tax

17th

2 senators chosen by people

18th

banned liqour

19th

gave women the right to vote

Suffrage

tried to get women the right to vote

Temperance

banned alcohol

Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

lawyer and politician

education role for Wisconsin's government

Upton Sinclair

author

The jungle

Expose meat packing industry

Lincoln Steffens

journalist

explored corruption in city politics

Ida Tarbell

American journalist, muckraker, and reformer during the Progressive Era

history of standard oil

expose the oil monopoly

Reforms

Child labor

National child labor committee (NCLC)

1 out of every 6 children between the ages of 5 and 10 were working

U.S. Children´s Bureau

President Taft

greater awareness to the issue of child labor

Keating-owens act

Prohibited the interstate trade of any goods made by child labor

U.S. Supreme court declared law unconstitutional

Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)

established minimum wage

restricts trade of child produced goods

Women Labor

Opposed sweatshop labor

Encouraged safety laws

8 hr workday

Efforts were intially met with strong resistance

Unions

The knights of labor

renewed for the 8 hr word day

equal pay regardless of gender

elimination of convict labor

worker ownership of businesses

Terence V. powderly

leader

¨one big union¨

Haymarket Affair

may 4, 1886

Chicago´s Haymarket square

anarchist group gathered in response to a death at an earlier demonstration fro eight-hour workday

demonstration, clashes between police and strikers

led to the death of striking worker

protest was quiet

police arrived armed for conflict

someone in th crowd threw a bomb at the police

killed 1 officer and injured another

sven anarchists speaking at the protest were arrested and charged with murder

they were sentenced to death

two were later pardoned

1 commited suicide in prison

press blamed the KOL

American federation of labor

Samuel Gompers

coal creek

convicts vs miners

Woodrow Wilson

passed the 18th and 19th admendment

nature reserve act

Teddy roosevelt

Square deal

Social darwism

survival of the fittest

Herbert spencer

Social gospel

emphasized how Jesus' ethical teachings could remedy the problems caused by “Gilded Age” capitalism

conflicts

Farmers

Railroads

Populism

represents gth rights of famers an worker during elections

Subtopic

referendum

vote to keep of get rid of existing law

recall

voting someone out of office

Initiative

proposed law

initiated by the people

primary system

allowed party members to vote directly for a candidate

W.ED Dubois

NAACP

Booker T washington

tuskeegee university