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Module 2
Progressivism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Social Darwinism | Uses Charles Darwin's "survival of the fittest" idea and applies it to people. Some people are richer simply because they are better |
| Social Gospel | Belief that the teachings of Jesus should be followed for the poor. Social inequalities and poverty should be eliminated. |
| Gilded Age | Time period between 1870-1900 where U.S. industrialism grew dramatically. Rich became richer and working class suffered |
| Booker T. Washington | Former slave who believed that Black Americans should forgo political power and fight instead for education and jobs |
| W.E.B. DuBois | First black PhD who believed that Black Americans should fight for full political equality. Disagreed with Booker T. Washington |
| Labor union | Organization of workers in a similar field that fights for worker's rights |
| Strike | Workers refuse to work in order to force a company to change |
| Eugene V. Debs | American socialist who fought for unions and worker's rights. Arrested during WWI for being a socialist |
| Samuel Gompers | Founder of the American Federation of Labor |
| Coal Creek War | Fight between coal miners and mining company attempting to replace them with convict labor in Tennessee. Led the state to repeal convict lease laws |
| Trust | Similar businesses working together to decrease competition and increase prices |
| Monopoly | One company buying all other similar businesses to completely control a product or service (Standard Oil) |
| Sherman/Clayton Antitrust Act | Allowed the government to break trusts and monopolies (used by Teddy Roosevelt and Taft) |
| Robert M. La Follette | Governor of Wisconsin who instituted the Direct Primary |
| Direct Primary | Election reform where people choose who they want to be political candidates |
| Theodore Roosevelt | President famous for busting trusts, conserving U.S. land, and fighting for American workers |
| Upton Sinclair | Wrote The Jungle; describes the horrid conditions of the Chicago meat packing industry. Leads to the Meat Inspection Act |
| Lincoln Steffens | Writes The Shame of the Cities; exposes corruption within local government |
| Ida Tarbell | Writes The History of the Standard Oil Company; exposes Standard Oil as a monopoly and leads to its break-up |
| Jacob Riis | Photographer who took pictures of squalid conditions for working class; advocated for housing reform |
| Initiative | Election reform that allows regular citizens to propose laws and amendments to local government |
| Referendum | Election reform that allows citizens to vote directly on laws and amendments |
| Recall | Election reform that allows citizens to vote a political leader out of office |
| 16th Amendment | Allows Congress to collect an income tax |
| 17th Amendment | Allows voters to directly elect Senators rather than let states choose them |
| 18th Amendment | Prohibition of alcohol; leads to an increase in organized crime |
| Square Deal | Teddy Roosevelt's domestic policy; Three C's of Conservation of natural resources, Control corporations, and Consumer protection |
| "Trust-Busting" | Roosevelt's and Taft's policies of breaking up illegal monopolies and trusts |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | Influenced by The Jungle; leads to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) |
| Meat Inspection Act | Influenced by The Jungle; creates guidelines for the processing of meat |
| Conservation | Belief of Roosevelt that natural resources should be protected from industrial use. Leads to the creation of the National Park System and National Forest Service |
| New Freedom | Domestic policy of Woodrow Wilson; leads to reform in banking and fights illegal business practices |
| Federal Reserve Act | Central banking system that stabilizes prices and controls inflation and interest rates |
| Woodrow Wilson | Progressive president who fought for worker's rights; passed child labor laws and 8-hour workday legislation |
| William Howard Taft | Progressive president who busted even more trusts than Roosevelt (and angered Roosevelt after he broke up U.S. Steel) |
| Suffrage | Movement where women protested for the right to vote |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | Suffragette who led the American Women's Suffrage Association |
| Alice Paul | Suffragette and feminist who suffered police brutality and was arrested for chaining herself outside the White House |
| Anne Dallas Dudley | Suffragette who fought for passage of the 19th Amendment in Tennessee. |
| Harry Burn/ "Perfect 36" | Legislator who cast the deciding vote to pass the 19th Amendment in Tennessee, the 36th and final state needed for ratification |
| 19th Amendment | Gave women the right to vote. Passed in large part due to women's support of World War I while men were away |
| Muckraker | Reform-minded journalists who exposed corruption in government and business. Include: Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, and Jacob Riis |
| Gender Roles | Men argue that women who want to vote are acting like they want to become men, take their jobs, force men to act as housewives. |
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