U.S. History Exit Ticket 23: Progressive Era Reforms

What do reforms like initiatives, referendums, and recalls attempt to do?

• give the people more power over the government

• limit citizenship rights like voting

• provide low interest loans to farmers

• establish a system of checks and balances

16th Amendment

• Women's Suffrage

• Direct Election of Senators

• Federal Income Tax

• Prohibition

17th Amendment

• Women's Suffrage

• Direct Election of Senators

• Federal Income Tax

• Prohibition

A political party, not one of the two dominant parties in American politics

• Third party

• Federal Reserve

• Tariff

• Independent candidate

Designed to prevent companies from engaging in unfair practices that eliminated fair competition

• Gospel of Wealth
• Corporation
• Interstate Commerce Act
• Sherman Antitrust Act