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chapter 20
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reform | to bring back to rightness, order, or morality |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Fire | March 1911 fire in NY factory that trapped young women workers inside locked exit doors; ~50 ended up jumped to their death; 100 died inside the factory; led to the establishment of many factory reforms, including increasing safety precautions for workers |
| Muckrakers | Journalists who searched for corruption in politics and big business, aroused public demand for reform |
| Looking Backwards | Book written by Bellamy; described experience of a young man who slept in 1887 and woke up in 2000 to find the social order changed. Utopian ideals pushed many young people towards reform |
| The Club Movement | Women formed clubs in which they discussed and proposed solutions for societal problems |
| The Woman's Christian Temperance Union | an organization that blamed alcohol for crime, poverty, and violence against women and children, and fought against it. |
| Jane Addams and Hull House | Social reformer who worked to improve the lives of the working class. In 1889 she founded___ __in Chicago, the first private social welfare agency in the U.S., to assist the poor, combat juvenile delinquency and help immigrants learn to speak English. |
| Women's Suffrage | the right of women to vote |
| The Trusts | Firms or corporations that combine for the purpose of reducing competition and controlling prices (establishing a monopoly). There are anti-trust laws to prevent these monopolies. |
| Business Regulation | government rules, regulations, and standards directed at protecting competition in the marketplace |
| The 1912 Presidential Election | Ex-President T. Roosevelt formed the "Bull Moose Party" to challenged his successor President Taft. This split the Republican vote allow Wilson, a Democrat to win. Wilson was re-elected In 1916 |
| John Muir | Naturalist who believed the wilderness should be preserved in its natural state. He was largely responsible for the creation of Yosemite National Park in California. |
| The Conservation Movement | political, social and scientific movement to protect natural resources |
| Disfranchisement | To deprive of a privilege, an immunity, or a right of citizenship, especially the right to vote |
| Segregation | Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences |
| Plessy v Ferguson (1896) | Legalized segregation in publicly owned facilities on the basis of "separate but equal." |
| Booker T. Washington | African American progressive who supported segregation and demanded that African American better themselves individually to achieve equality. |
| The Atlanta Compromise Speech | a speech given by Booker T. Washington in 1895 at the Cotton States and international Exposition that proposed that blacks and whites should agree to benefit from each other |
| W.E.B. DuBois | 1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910 |
| Walter Rauschenbusch | a key figure in the Social Gospel and single tax movements that flourished in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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