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Ch. 21-Progressivism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| “Muckrakers” | journalists committed to exposing corruption ex. Ida Tarbell |
| Ida Tarbell | exposed steel corruption |
| Lincoln Steffens | exposed corruption |
| “Social Gospel” | a social movement chiefly concerned with redeeming the nation's cities; religious ex. Salvation Army |
| Salvation Army | a fusion of religion with reform |
| Children’s Bureau | created by Taft in 1912; to investigate "all matters pertaining to the welfare of childrem" |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | women's suffrage |
| National American Suffrage Association | NAWSA; Jane Addams |
| Nineteenth Amendment | 1920; guaranteed political rights to women |
| Equal Rights Amendment | Alice Paul |
| Split ticket | replaced by secret ballot |
| Municipal Reform | Lincoln Steffens; city governments |
| City-Manager Plan | elected officials hired an outside expert to take charge of the government |
| Tom Johnson | celebrated reform mayor of Cleveland |
| Initiative | allowed reformers to circumvent state legislatures altogether by submitting new legislation directly to the voters in general elections |
| Referendum | provided a method by which actions of the legislature could be returned to the electorate for approval |
| Direct Primary | an attempt to take the selection of candidates away from the bosses and give it to the people; used to limit black voting in the south |
| Recall | gave voters the right to remove a public official from office at a special election |
| Robert M. LaFollette | celebrated state-level reformer in Wisconsin |
| “Interest groups” | organizations outside the party system designed to pressure govt to do members' bidding |
| Charles Frances Murphy | led Tammany Hall towards reform |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Fire | 1911 |
| Western Progressives | focused mainly on federal reform |
| W.E.B. DuBois | disagreed with Booker T. Washington; said that blacks deserved a full university education instead of a trade/agric. education |
| Niagara Movement | launched by W.E.B. DuBois; NAACP |
| National Farm Bureau Federation | a network of agricultural organizations designed to spread scientific farming methods, teach sound marketing techniques, and lobby for the interests of their members |
| “Women’s professions” | "helping" professions: teachers, nurses |
| “New woman” | a result of decline of family size, children spending more time in school, longer life spans, household appliances |
| “Boston marriages” | live with other women, often long term |
| Clubwomen | GFWC; a large network of associations that proliferated rapidly beginning in the 1880s and 1890s and that became the vanguard of many important reforms |
| National Association of Colored Women | club |
| “Mother’s pensions” | pensions for widowed or abandoned mothers with small children |
| “Talented tenth” | The blacks who should be allowed to get a full college education; DuBois |
| Temperance Crusade | Frances Willard; WCTU; Anti-Saloon League |
| Women’s Christian Temperance Union | Frances Willard |
| Anti-Saloon League | temperance |
| Eighteenth Amendment | prohibition |
| Eugenics | the science of altering the reproductive processes of plants and animals to produce new hybrids or breeds; a way to "grade" races |
| The Passing of the Great Race | Madison Grant; the nation's most effective nativist |
| Socialist Party | Eugene Debs; economic reform |
| Eugene V. Debs | headed Socialist Party; |
| Industrial Workers of the World | radical labor union; "Wobblies" |
| Louis B. Brandeis | lawyer; the "curse of bigness"; govt regulation of competition to get rid of monopolies |
| Herbert Croly | nationalist spokesman; distinguish btw "good trusts" and "bad trusts" |
| Commission Plan | city reform |
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