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Chapter 19
APUSH
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| mutual aid society | A group of people from a particular town that collected dues from members and paid support of death or disability on the job. |
| tenement | A lot of Middle class families lived , cramped, airless apartments |
| ragtime | African American musicians performing music with a ragged rhythm, that combined a steady beat in the bass |
| yellow journalism | Derogatory term used for mass-market newspapers, crude exaggeration, color comics |
| political machine | local party bureaucracies that kept unshakable grip on both elected and appointed public offices |
| "City Beautiful" Movement | Advocating for more and better urban park spaces |
| Hull House | A social settlement served as a spark plug for community improvement and political reform |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Fire | a fire that killed many women because employers locked emergency doors to prevent theft |
| Margaret Sanger | A nurse who launched a crusade calling for birth control movement |
| Nelly Bley | investigative reporter who wrote about conditions in factories, prisons and insane asylums. Traveled the world in 72 days. |
| Joseph Pulitzer | used yellow journalism in competition with Hearst to sell more newspapers. He also achieved the goal of becoming a leading national figure of the Democratic Party. |
| Skyscrapers | a very tall building of many stories |
| race riot | an attack by white mobs on African Americans, triggered by political conflicts, or rumors of crime. Purpose: white supremacy |
| vaudeville | Professional stage including dancing and singing, form of family entertainment for urban masses that influences later forms, tv/radio |
| blues | AA music that originated in the deep south, black workers from cotton fields ,Mississippi delta |
| muckrakers | investigative journalists who published exposes of political scandals and industrial abuses. |
| progressivism | overlapping set of movements to combat the ills industrialization, important roots to city, reformers invented new forms of civic participation that shaped the course of national politics |
| social settlement | A community welfare center that investigated the plight of the urban poor, raised funds to address urgent needs, and helped neighborhood residents advocate on their own behalf. |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | regulating the conditions in the food and drug industries to ensure a safe supply of food and medicine. |
| Jacob Riis | danish immigrant, wrote reports on terrible conditions where immigrants lived ( in tenants) wrote " how the other half lives" |
| Upton Sinclair | muckraker, published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago, huge shocker for nation |
| red light district | a section of a city where prostitution is officially or unofficially tolerated |
| William Randolph Hearst | A leading newspaperman, ran The New York Journal and helped create and propagate "yellow journalism." |
| mass transit | system designed to move large numbers of people along fixed routes |
| Chicago school | A school of architecture dedicated to the design of buildings whose form expressed, rather than masked, their structure and function. |
| National Consumers' League | league encouraged shoppers to patronize only stores where wages and working conditions were known to be fair. |
| Women's Trade Union League | financed by wealthy women who supported its work, league trained working class leaders, who organized unions among garment workers. Fighting for womens rights |
| National Municipal League | organization that advised cities to elect small councils and hire professional city managers who would direct operations like a corporate executive. |
| Scott Joplin | United States composer who was the first creator of ragtime to write down his compositions (1868-1917) |
| Tom Johnson | Progressive mayor of Cleveland and advocated taking power away from big business. Set model for other local reform |
| Jane Addams | daughter of the middle class, established a hull house to offer art classes and other cultural programs for the poor. |
| Florence Kelley | a Hull House worker and former chief factory inspector of Illinois. under her, NCl became most powerful organizations advocating worker protection laws |
| Hi! | Hello :). You can do this!!!!! |
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