Progressive Era
Womens Suffrage
Prohibition
Progressivism
Education
Definition: support for or advocacy of social reform.
in 1880-1920 people became aware of them socially. Middle class thought of themselves as the “victims”. This era was about the reacting to problems caused by industrialization.
Definition:The action of forbidding something, especially by law.
Banning of the manufacture, distribution, & sale of alcohol.
Texas Peoples Party: A group known as the Jeffersonian Democrats split from the Democratic party in 1890 and in 1892 fused with the Populists to form the People's party which later drew some strength also from Republicans, Socialists, and Prohibitionists.
Populist party: Populist party, was organized in St. Louis in 1892 to represent the common folk—especially farmers—against the entrenched interests of railroads, bankers, processors, corporations, and the politicians in league with such interests.
Rebecca Henry Haze
Temperance
Definition: Without alcoholic drink.
The movement to ban alcohol from the united states.
Suffrage definition: Gaining women the right to vote
WTCU is an organization that protests for women's rights
1st female to organize a suffrage Group in Texas. She founded the Texas equal rights association in Dallas in 1893.
Reformers
definition: To chabge a rule or a law.
Wanting to change alcohol, women rights, and drug use laws.
It reduced Poverty, Home violence, and crime.
The people were heard and so the 19th and 20th amendment were created.
Groups and associations started listening and started to feel that women should have rights of their own.
The banning of alcohol did go through but it did not stick.
These created new parties to protect the people that had the "unfair advantage" against the ambitious entrepreneurs and high class people.
Government
Terrell Election Law: In 1895 and 1903 the first attempts were made to regulate the nominating procedure of political parties. With the enactment in 1903 of the Terrell Election Law, elective offices were established and made mandatory for all parties that had received as many as 100,000 votes in the previous election. Mostly the democratic party was affected.
Primary Election: a preliminary election to appoint delegates to a party conference or to select the candidates for a principal, especially presidential, election. Until the election of 1948, Texas ballots did not list the presidential candidates by name but instead listed the electors for each party. Since the individual electors’ vote totals varied slightly, given here is the highest vote received by any elector for a candidate. Thanks to this Abraham Lincoln was elected.
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Business/railroad.
Texas railroad Commision: The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) is the state agency that regulates the oil and gas industry, gas utilities, pipeline safety, safety in the liquefied petroleum gas industry, and surface coal and uranium mining. Despite its name, it no longer regulates railroads. It has an annual budget of $79 million.
James Hogg: He was the James Stephen Hogg, the first native governor of Texas. He was also associated with populism.