Chapter 18 Section 2

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Chapter 18 Section 2

• Progressive Legislation

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Summarize the Progressives views on regulating
business.

• Progressives sought government regulation to
  protect workers rights and business competition.
• They opposed government control

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Social Welfare Program

• Progressives believed that government ought to
  increase its responsibility for the well-being of
  people
• Social welfare programs would help insure a
  minimum standard of living

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Municipal

• Many of the earliest Progressive reforms were
  made at the

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Give examples of government reforms and social
welfare programs at the municipal and state
levels during the progressive era.

• Municipal- public baths in Detroit free
  kindergarten in Toledo

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Home Rule

• A system that gives cities a limited degree of
  self-rule

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Direct Primary

• An election in which

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Initiative

• A process in which citizens can put a proposed
  new law

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Describe the effect of each of these reforms
a.)home rule b.)direct relief c.) initiative.

• Home rule- frees cities from domination by state
  governments
• Direct primary
• Initiative-

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Referendum

• A process that allows

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Recall

• Procedure that permits

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Holding Company

• A firm that buys up stocks and bonds of smaller
  companies

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What reforms did Theodore Roosevelt achieve under
his square deal?

• Antitrust activism railroad regulation
  transforming Interstate Commerce Commission into
  first regulatory agency

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Constitutional amendments passed during the
Progressive Era and how they expanded the role of
government in citizens lives.

• 16th Amendment-
• 17th Amendment
• 18th Amendment-
• 19th Amendment-