Progressive Era Vocab

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This amendment allows the federal (national) government to collect taxes on incomes.

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16

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Which amendment allows US citizens to directly elect their US Senators instead of their state legislatures?

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17

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This amendment made the production, sale, and distribution of alcohol illegal in the United States (prohibition).

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18

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This amendment gave women the right to vote (the right to vote cannot be denied based on sex)

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19

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This first attempt by the national government to regulate foods and drugs, a law passed in 1906 to remove harmful and misrepresented foods and drugs from the market and regulate the manufacture and sale of drugs and food involved in interstate trade.

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Pure Food & Drug Act

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A federal law that banned the sale of bad meats to the American people and required meat inspectors, which still is in place today.

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Meat Inspection Act

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journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government

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Muckrakers

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Who wrote The Jungle, which exposed the conditions workers at Chicago meat plants were subjected to and the foods that Americans were buying/consuming?

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Upton Sinclair

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A period from the 1890s to the 1920s in which reformers sought to address problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, and corruption in politics.

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Progressive Era

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Required voters to pay a certain amount before they could vote in any election. This was a way to keep poor minorities and Whites from having too much say in the government.

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Poll Taxes