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chap. 8 voca.
45 words on chapter 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. progressivism : | movement that responded to the pressures of industrialization and urbinization by promiting reforms. |
| 2. muckracker: | writer who uncovers and exposes mis conduct in politics or business. |
| 3. Lincoln steffens: | leading muckraker/managing editor of McClures;magazine known for uncovering social problems. |
| 4. Jacob Riis: | photographer for the New york Evening Sun. |
| 5. Social gospel: | reform movement that emerged in the late nineteenth ccentury that sought to improve society by applying christian principles. |
| 6. settlement house: | community center orginized at the turn of the twentieth century to provide social services to the urban poor. |
| 7. Jane Adams: | leading figure in the settlement house movement . |
| 8. direct primary: | election in which citizens themselves vote to select nominees for upcoming elections. |
| 9. initiative: | process in which citizens put a purposed new law directly on the ballot . |
| 10.referendum: | process that allows citizensto approve or reject a law passed by a legislative. |
| 11. recall: | process by which voters can remove elected officials from office before their terms end. |
| 12. Florence kelley: | believed women were hurt by the unfair prices prices of goods they had to buy to run in their own homes. |
| 13. NCL: | [national consumers league]group organized in 1899 to investigate the conditions under which goods were made and sold and to promote safe working conditions and a minimum wage. |
| 14. temperance movement: | movement aimed at stopping alcohol abuse and the problems created by it . |
| 15.Margaret Sanger: | thought family life and womens health would improve if mothers had fewer children. |
| 16. Ida B. Wells: | black teacher who helped form the NACW(National Association of Colored Women) |
| 17. sufferage: | the right to vote. |
| 18. Carrie Chapman Catt: | re-energized the national sufferage effort. |
| 19. NAWSA: | (national women suffereage association) group founded in 1890 that worked on both the state and national levels to ear womens right to vote. |
| 20.Alice Paul: | best known leader ,who was raised in Quaker home where she was encouraged to be independent. |
| 21. nineteenth amendment: | constitutional amandment that gave women a right to vote . |
| 22. americanization: | belief that assimilating immigrants into american society would make them more loyal citizens. |
| 23. Booker T. Washington: | told blacks to move slowly toward racial progress. |
| 24. W.E.B Du Bois: | most out spoken among the african americans. |
| 25. niagara movement: | group of African American thinkers founded in 1905pushed for immidiate racial reforms,particularly in education and voting practices. |
| 26. NAACP: | (National Association for the advancement of Colored People) interracial orginization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discriminaton and to acheive political and civil rights for African Americans. |
| 27. urban league: | network of churches and clubs that set up employmentagencies and relief efforts to help African Americans get settled and find work.in the cities . |
| 28. anti defamation league: | orginization formed in1913 to defend jews against physical and verbal attacks and false statements. |
| 29.mutualistas: | orginized groups of Mexican Americans to make leans and provide legal assistance to other members of their community. |
| 30. Theodore Roosevelt: | 1901 became president of the united states at age of 43 years. |
| 31. square deal: | president Theodore Roosevelt program of reforms to keep the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of small businesses owners and the poor. |
| 32.Hepburn act: | 1906 law that gave the government the authority to set railroad rates and maximum prices for ferries,bridge tolls, and oil pipelines. |
| 33. meat inspection act: | 1906 law that allowed the federal government to inspect meat sold across state lines and required federal inspection of meat processing plants. |
| 34. pure food and drug act: | 1906 law that allowed federal inspection of food and medicine and banned the interstate shipment and sale of impure food and mislabeling of food and drugs. |
| 35.John Muir: | efforts who had led congress to create Yosemite National park in 1890. |
| 36. Gifford Pinchot: | led the division of forestry in the U.S. Department of Agriculture . |
| 37. National Reclamation: | 1902 law that gave the federal government the power to decide where and how water would be distributed through the building and management of |
| 38.new nationalism: | president Theodore Roosevelt's plan to restore the governments trust busting power. |
| 39. progressive party: | political party that emerged from the taft-roosevelt battle that split the republican party in 1912 |
| 40.Woodrow Wilson: | created an opportunity for the democrats. |
| 41. new freedom: | Woodrow Wilson's program to place government controls on corporations in order to benefit small businesses. |
| 42. sixteenth amandment: | 1913 constitutional amendment that gave congress the authority to levy an income tax. |
| 43. federal reserve act: | 1913 law that placed national banks under the control of a Federal Reserve Board , which runs regional banks, sets intrests rates, and supervises commercial banks. |
| 44.federal trade commission : | government agency established in 1914 to to identify monopolistic business practices, false advertising, and dishonest labeling. |
| 45.Clayton Antitrust Act: | 1914 law that that strengthened the Sherman antitrust act. |
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