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Progreesive era
Chapter 17 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alice Paul | leader of the Nation Woman's Party or (NWP) |
| Nation Woman's Party (NWP) | fought for woman's stuffrage |
| Booker T. Washington | African American who supported segregation |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | leader of National American Women Suffrage Association or (NAWSA) |
| National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) | helped led out the 19th amendment |
| Florence Kelley | leaders of the Nation Consumers League or (NCL) and Women's Trade Union League or (WTUL) and (NAACP) |
| Nation Consumers League (NCL) | healthy working conditions |
| Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) | better working conditions |
| Ida B. Wells | leaders of the National Association of Colored Women or (NACW) and (NAACP) |
| National Association of Colored Women (NACW) | raise money from educated black women |
| Margaret Sanger | leader of the American Birth Control League |
| American Birth Control League | freedom of expression |
| Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) | ban the sale of liquor in the U.S. |
| Muckrakers | writers who uncovers and exposes misconduct in politics or business |
| Recall | process by which voters can remove elected officials from office before their terms end |
| 18th amendment | banned the making, selling, and transporting of alcoholic beverages in the United States |
| 19th amendment | gave women the right to vote |
| Lincoln Steffens | exposed the corruption of city governments |
| Jacob Ribbs | author of the book How the Other Half Lives |
| How the Other Half Lives | exposed the terrible conditions in apartments in NYC through photos |
| Upton Sinclair | author of the Jungle |
| The Jungle | focusing on the conditions of the meatpacking industry |
| Jane Addams | creator of the Settlement House and leader of the (NAACP) |
| Settlement House | provides services for the urban poor |
| W.E.B DuBois | leaders of the Niagara Movement and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People or (NAACP) |
| Niagara Movement | denounced the idea of gradual progress |
| Anti-Defamation League | defend Jews and others against physical and verbal attacks or false statements |
| Referendum | allowed citizens to approve or reject laws passed by a legislature |
| Initiative | voters themselves could pass laws instead of waiting for elected officials to act |
| Urban League | helped families buy clothes and books and send children to school |
| Direct primary | an election in which citizens themselves vote to select nominees for upcoming elections |
| National Association for Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) | to use the courts to challenge unfair laws |
| Walter Rauschenbusch | author of Christianity and the Social Crisis |
| Birth control | was created by Margaret Sanger to improve if mothers had fewer children |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire | 1911 fire at a factory in NYC where 146 workers were killed because the managers locked the exits |
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