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History II
Chapter 17: Progressivism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Progressivism | movement that responded to the pressures of industrialization and urbanization by promoting reforms |
| Lincoln Steffens | muckracking author of 'Shame of the Cities', exposed corruption in urban government |
| Jacob Riis | muckracking photographer and author of 'How the Other Half Lives', exposed the condition of the urban power |
| Jane Addams | leader in the settlement house movement |
| settlement house | community center that provided services for the urban poor |
| Social Gospel | belief that following Christian principles could bring about social justice |
| direct primary | allowed voters to select candidates rather than having them selected by party leaders |
| initiative | process in which citizens put a proposed new law directly on the ballot |
| referendum | process that allows citizens to reject/accept laws passed by their legislature |
| recall | process by which voters can remove elected officials from office before their terms end |
| John Spargo | focused on difficlt lives of child workers |
| Ida Tarbell | 'The History of Standard Oil' |
| Florence Keliey | fromed the National Consumer's League (NCU) |
| National Consumer's League | group that labeled and publicized 'goods produced under fair, safe, and healthy worker conditions |
| temperance movement | aimed at stopping alcohol abuse and the problems created by it |
| Margaret Sanger | nurse who opened the first birth control clinic |
| Ida W. Wells | helped to found the National Association of Colored Women (NAOW) |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | president of the NAWSA, campaigned to pass women's suffrage at both the state and national levels |
| National American Women Suffrage Association | group that worked on the state and national levels to earn women the right to vote |
| Alice Paul | social activist, led women to picket at the White House to get the right to vote |
| Nineteenth Amendment | 1919, constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote |
| Americanization | belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more loyal citizens |
| Booker T. Washington | favored a gradualism approach for blacks to earn rights through economic progress and employment in the skill trades |
| W.E.B. Du Bois | demanded immediate and full rights for blacks as guaranteed bu the Constitution |
| Niagara Movement | group of African Americans thinkers founded in 1905 that pushed for immediate racial reforms |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) | interracial organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation, discrimination, and achieve political rights fro African American |
| Urban League | organization to assist working class African American with relief jobs, clothing, and schools |
| Anti-Defamation League | organization whose goal is to defend Jews and others from false statements and verbal or physical attacks |
| mutualists | Mexican Americans groups that provided loans, legal assistance, and disability insurance for members |
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