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ch 8 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| progressivism | movement that responded to the pressures of industrialization & urbanization by promoting reforms |
| muckrakers | writers who uncovers & exposes misconduct in politics or business |
| Lincoln Steffens | exposed corruption in cities wrote (The Shame Of Cities) in 1904 |
| Jacob Riis | a photographer for the New York Evening Sun |
| Social Gospel | reform movement that emerged in the late nineteenth century that sought to improve society by applying Christian principles |
| settlement houses | a community center that provided social services to the urban poor |
| Jane Addams | became a leading figure in the settlement house movement |
| direct primary | an elections in which citizens themselves vote to select nominees for upcoming elections |
| initiative | process in which citizens put a proposed new law directly on the ballot |
| referendum | allowed citizens to approve or reject laws passed by a legislative |
| recall | gave voters the power to remove public servants from office before their term ended |
| Florence Kelly | believed that women were hurt by the unfair prices of goods |
| National Consumers League (NCL) | Florence helped found it, gave special labels to good produced under fair,safe, & healthy working conditions |
| temperance movement | movement aimed at stopping alcohol abuse & the problems created by it |
| Margaret Sanger | thought that women's life would be easier without kids in 1916 she opened the first birth control clinic |
| Ida B. Wells | a black teacher who helped form the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) |
| Suffrage | the right to vote |
| National American Women Suffrage Association | group founded in 1890 that worked on both the state and national levels to earn women the right to vote |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | the national suffrage effort was reenergized by Catt |
| Alice Paul | social activists grew more daring in their strategies to win the vote Alice was their best known leader |
| Nineteenth Amendment | the right to vote "shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex" |
| Americanization | belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more loyal |
| Booker T. Washington | told blacks to move slowly toward racial progress |
| W.E.B Du Bois | rejected. urged blacks to demand the rights |
| Niagara Movement | pushed for immediate racial reforms, particularly in education and voting |
| National Association for the Advancement of colored People | interracial organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination and to achieve political and civil rights |
| Urban League | network of churches and clubs that set up employment agencies and relief efforts to help blacks find work in cities |
| Anti-Defamation League | organization formed in 1913 to defend Jews against physical and verbal attacks. |
| Mutualistas | groups that made loans and provided legal assistance |
| Theodore Roosevlet | became President, he was only 43 years old |
| square deal | goal was to keep the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of small business owners and the poor |
| Hepburn Act | gave the ICC strong enforcement powers |
| meat inspection act | law that allowed the federal government to inspect meat sold across state lines and required federal inspection of meat processing plants |
| pure food and Drug Act | placed the same controls on other foods and on medicines |
| John Muir | whose efforts had led congress to create Yosemit Natural park in 1890 |
| Gifford Pinchot | who led the division of Forestry in the department of Agriculture |
| National Reclamation Act | gave the federal government the power to decide where and how water would be distributed |
| Progressive Party | political party that emerged from the Taft-Roosevelt battle that split the Republican party |
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