Progressivism

• Protecting Social Welfare
• Promoting Moral improvement
• Creating eco. reform
• Fostering efficiency

• Prohibition: the banning of alcoholic beverages
• Suffrage: attempting to get women the right to vote

• Efforts to limiting working hours
• Muller v. Oregon- Court upholds limiting women to 10 hr workday
• Bunting v. Oregon- upholds 10 hr workday for men
• Reformers win workers' compensation for families of injured, killed

• Child labor laws
• Reduction in the work week
• Social services tp help the poor and the immigrants

• Direct primary
• Initiative
• Referendum
• Recall

an election in which the voters cast ballots to select nominees for an upcoming election

Process that allows citizens to gather signatures on petitions to get a prosposed law on the ballot

Citizens may demand, via petition, to be able to vote for or against a law

Gave citizens the ability to vote bad officials out of office

• Galveston:
• -huricane and tidal wave led to an emergency situation
• -4 member commission of experts are given the task to rebuild the city

• a flood led to the creation of council-manager gov.
• Council writes the laws
• Manager runs the city

• Square Deal
• Trustbusting
• Pure food and drug Act
• 16 amend.
• 17 amend.

• "Everyone deserves a square deal"
• Roose. is going to use the Presidency to start programs

• Outlawed monopolies and practicers that resulted in unfair business practices
• Roose. used this to go after big trusts

• Created rules for cleanliness
• Created a progream for meat inspection

• Halted the sale of contaminated foods and medecines
• Called for truth in labeling

• To protect and manage the nation's water and timber resources
• Strengthen by Teddy Roose.

Gave congress the power to levy an Income Tax

Provided for the direct election of senators