progressive era

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Established income tax

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direct election of United States senators i

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no drinking

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women vote

referendum

vote to keep or get rid of existing low

recall

voting someone out of office

initiative

proposed law

initiated by the people

primary system

allowed party members to vote directly for a candate

conflicts

farmers

railroads

populism

political party focused on the people

WEB debois

NAACP

American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.

booker T. Washington

tuskegee institute

primary leader in the African-American community

suffrage

the right to vote

temperance

not drinking

reforms

child labor

national labor committee

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

u.s. childrens bureau

president Taft

greater awareness to the issue of child labor

Keating- Owen Act

prohibited the interstate trade of any goods produced with child labor

u.s. supreme court claimed law unconstitutional

fair labor standards act (1938)

establishes minimum wage

restricts trade of child produced goods

women labor

opposed sweatshop labor

safety laws

8 hour workday

efforts were initially met with strong resistance

triangle shirtwaist factory fire

150 dead

unions

The knights of labor

renewed called for an 8 hour work day

equal pay regardless of gender

elimination of convict labor

worker ownership with business

terence v. powderly

leader

one big union

haymarket affair

may 4th , 1886

chicago's haymarket square

clashes between police and strikers

led to death of striking workers

protest was quiet

police arrived combat

american federation of labor

Robert M. La Follette

US Senator

Proposed election changes

upton Sinclair

author

the jungle

lincoln steffens

American journalist

leading muckraker

ida tarbell

Writer

History of Standard Oil

social darwinism

survival of the fittest

herbert Spencer

Subtopic

social gospel

church should help the poor

woodrow Wilson

new freedom

support of women right to vote

teddy roosevelt

square deal

spearheaded unprecedented federal legislation