Joselin Vazquez
Mr. kotani
APUSH
10 February 2018
Ch.28&29 ID’s
1. Progressive Movement: many reform movements took place at the turn of the 20th
century until WWI caused industrialization and urbanization. This movement sought to
improve the life of the Industrial Age. Through governmental action, there were political
and social changes. They wanted to limit the power of corporations, modify and improve
democracy to help people, and strengthen the justice within our society.
2. Muckraker, Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens: Muckrakers are reporters
who wrote to expose some evil, dirt-diggers such as Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell.
Lincoln was a New York reporter who wrote a series of articles in McClure that
unmasked the corrupt alliance between big businesses. Ida Tarbell was a pioneering
journalist who published an factual expose of the oil company. Upton Sinclair wrote The
Jungle focusing on workers and concerns about food sanitation.
3. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act: The
Jungle revealed horrible things about the Meatpacking industry. The Meat Inspection Act
was put into place to make food safer. It made stricter requirements for a clean
workplace. The Pure Food and Drug Act forbade factories from selling mislabeled food
and drugs. This was put into place to help protect consumers.
4. Robert La Follette, Wisconsin Plan, Expand Democracy: Progressive Wisconsin
governor who attacked machine politics and forced the state legislature to require each
party to hold a direct primary. Known as; Mr. Progressive!, The plan aimed to decrease
the power of political machines and to make state government more professional.
Democrats had expansive ideals.
5. Anti-Saloon League, Temperance Movement, Moral Reform: The most successful
political action group that forced the prohibition issue into the forefront of state and local
elections and pioneered the strategy of the single-issue pressure group., Started by
Christian Women and worked for legislation to moderate the use of alcohol despite their
inability to vote., Took off in New York 1833. Movement aimed at public morals, but
narrowed to a campaign to eliminate sexual sin and prostitution. Ended up growing all
over America.
6. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute , “Atlanta Compromise” speech: Booker
T. Washington was a former slave who promoted industrial education and economic
opportunity but not social equality for blacks. Tuskegee Institute black was an
educational institution founded by Booker T. Washington to provide training in
agriculture and crafts. The Atlanta Compromise was a speech made by Washington in
Atlanta that outlined the philosophy that blacks should focus on economic gains, go to
school, learn skills, and work their way up the ladder and that Southern whites should
help out to create an unresentful people.
7. Jim Crow laws, W.E.B Du Bois, NAACP, Failure of progressive Movement on racial
issues: Jim Crow laws were laws written to separate blacks and whites in public
areas/meant African Americans had unequal opportunities in housing, work, education,
and government. The W.E.B Du Bois is a black intellectual who challenged Booker T.
Washington's ideas on combating Jim Crow; he called for the black community to
demand immediate equality and was a founding member of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People. Naacp stands for National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People it was created in 1909 by a group of liberals including
Du Bois, Jane Addams and John Dewey to eradicate racial discrimination. The
progressive movement took place at the turn of the 20th century until WWI directly
caused by industrialization and urbanization. This movement sought to improve life in
the industrial age by making moderate political changes and social improvements through
governmental action. They wanted to limit the power of corporations, improve the
democracy so it benefited the people, and strengthen justice.
8. Women’s Suffrage, NAWSA, Carrie Chapman Catt, Women’s Party, Alice Paul: the
NAWSA was established by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in May of
1890. This and other groups led to the nineteenth amendment: women's [Link]
Paul led the national women’s party, which believed they needed a more constitutional
amendment that would clearly provide legal protection of their rights and prohibit
sex-based discrimination. They particularly fought for the right to vote on the same terms
as men.
9. Theodore Roosevelt’s “square deal”, Sherman Anti Trusts Act (1890), Trust
Busting: Theodore Roosevelt's’ “square deal” promised control of the corporations,
consumer protection, and conservation of natural resources. The Sherman Anti trust Act
of 1890 outlawed trusts, it forbade combination in restraint of trade without any
distinction between "good" trusts and "bad" trusts but was ineffective because it made all
large trusts suffer, not just bad ones. Trust busting was a goal that progressives designed
to break up the large and very powerful trusts that had formed during the Gilded Age.
10. Preservationist (John Muir) vs. conservationists (Gifford Pinchot), Hetch Hetchy
controversy: John Muir The nation's leading preservationists and the founder of the
Sierra Club. Perservationalist were in association with the National Park System to
protect public land from any exploitation or development at all. Gifford Pinchot helped
seize all the forests and many of the water power sites still in the public domain before
the bill became law. Conservationists were Promoting policies that protect land for
carefully managed development..Hetch Hetchy valley was a spectacular valley highly
populated with naturalists. Residents from San Francisco wanted to use the territory to
get water for their growing population. The battle went on for over a decade over whether
or not to have a dam. Eventually in 1908, it passed and construction of the dam began
after World War I.
11. Progressive Amendments: 17th, 18th and 19th amendment: The 17th gave people
direct election of senators. 18th banned alcohol, and the 19th gave women the right to
vote!
12. Muller vs Oregon: M uller v. Oregon, 208 U.S. 412, was a landmark decision by the United
States Supreme Court. Women were provided by state mandate, lesser work-hours than allotted to
men
13. F ederal Reserve Act: I s an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal
Reserve System (the central banking system of the United States), and which created the
authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes
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