Progressive Era Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Allowed the Federal gov to inspect meat sold across the state lines and required inspection of meat processing plants
  2. 3. Created the Federal Reserve Board to oversee banks and manage reserve funds
  3. 4. African American leader who advocated for full civil rights and political rights for black people, leader of NAACP
  4. 5. Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the US
  5. 11. A US federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West
  6. 13. Lead by W.E.B. Dubois, wanted rights for African Americans, they tried getting it by demanding immediate social and economic equality
  7. 14. Domestic program formed upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection
  8. 15. Authorized the federal gov to regulate railroad rates and set maximum prices for ferries, bridge tolls, and oil pipelines
  9. 16. andDrugAct Allowed federal inspection of food and medicine and banned the shipment and sale of impure food and the mislabeling of food and medicine
  10. 17. Gave Congress the power to collect taxes on people’s income
  11. 19. Teddy Roosevelt’s political party
  12. 20. African American leader who urged southern black people to emphasize skills that could make them successful in the contemporary economy
Down
  1. 1. Lowered tariffs on imported goods and established a graduate income tax on the richest 5% of Americans
  2. 6. Instituted the direct election of Senators by the people of each state
  3. 7. Strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act by spelling out the specific activities businesses could not do, exempted unions from antitrust laws and made it easier for them to strike
  4. 8. Conservationist, who Teddy Roosevelt appointed head of the Forest Service
  5. 9. An independent agency of the US government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act its mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices, such as coercive monopoly
  6. 10. A compromise bill, had the immediate effect of frustrating both proponents and opponents of reducing tariffs
  7. 12. The Progressive programs enacted by Wilson as president during his first term (1913-1916) when the Democrats controlled Congress
  8. 18. Extended the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate the telecommunications industry, and designated telephone, telegraph and wireless companies as common carriers