What Were the Goals of the Progressive Movement? Aimed to Return the Control of the Government to the People and Get Rid of Corruption
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Nico Savoji* What were the goals of the progressive movement? Aimed to return the control of the government to the people and get rid of corruption * Florence Kelley- Worked against women labors and child labor and tried to improve wages for all works * Prohibition- A legal act that limited manufacture, storage of barrels and alcohol * Carry Nation- Radical member of the temperance movement * WCTU- The Womans Christian Temperance Union * Muckrakers- Someone who was focused with cleaning up bad stuff and did not recognize the good stuff all around them * Robert M.La Follette- Progressive Politician who ran for president * Keating-Owen Act- prohibited the sales of factories that had kids working in them * Muller v. Oregon- Court case that justified both sex discrimination and usage of labor laws during the time period * Initiative- a bill from the people instead of lawmakers * Referendum- a vote by the electorate * Recall- To take back as in dialogue or an actual object * Seventeenth Amendment- 2 senators per state which got a term for 6 years
* Ida Tarbell- Leading muckraker of late progressive era * Lincoln Steffens- Muckraker, journalist at New York Evening Post * Upton Sinclair- Wrote The Jungle which showed how bad working conditions were. * Suffrage- The work to vote in political elections * Carrie Chapman Catt- Carrie Catt became the leader of the NWSA and campaigned at a state and federal level and got the HOR and the senate to back her up. * NAWSA- National American Woman Suffrage Association * Nineteenth Amendment- Let woman vote * What was President Wilson’s stance on civil rights? President Wilson believed women had a point about their rights but that went all out the window when their protests became rowdy * What were the causes of the “twilight” of progressivism? (The next two questions are not in your book, they are from prior knowledge.)* What ideas did the Progressives take from the Populists? * How were the people who made up the Populist Party different from those who made up the Progressive Party? How were they similar?