Progressive Era

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Ch. 9: The Progressive Era

por Samantha Brown

Mikhail Gorbachev

por lucas montes

women who made a difference

por laura bison

Villa Distro

por Ciro Carmelo Troncoso

Progressive Era

Black Civil Rights

Booker T Washington

Tuskeegee Institute

WEB DuBois

NAACP

Muckrakers

Ida Tarbell

Lincoln Steffens

Upton Sinclair

"The Jungle"

Author

Robert M. La Follette, Sr

Women's issues

Temperance

Suffrage

Amendments

19th

18th

17th

16th

Legal Stuff

Primary System

allowed party members to vote directly for a candidate

Initiative

Proposed Law

initiated by the people

Recall

voting someone out of office

Referendum

Vote to keep or get rid of existing law

Granger Movements

populism

Conflict

Railroads

Farmers

Societal Veiws

Social Gospel

Social Darwinism

Herbert Spencer

"Survival of the fittest

President

Teddy Roosevelt

Woodrow Wilson

Labor

Union

American federation of Labor

The Knights of Labor

Reforms

Women Labor

8 hr workday

Efforts were initially met with strong resistance

Encouraged Safety Laws

opposed sweatshop labor

Child labor

Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)

restricts trade of child produced goods

establish minimum wage

Keating-Owen Act

U.S. Supreme Court declared law unconstitutional

Prohibit the interstate trade of good produce with child labor

U.S. Children's bureau

greater awareness to the issue of child labor

President Taft

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

National Child Labor Committee (NCLC)