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Chapter 8
47 Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Progressivism | movement that responded to the pressures of industrialization and urbanization by promoting reforms |
| muckraker | writer who uncovers and exposes misconduct in politics or business |
| Lincoln Steffens | managing editor at "McClure's", a magazine known for uncovering social problems |
| 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 house | community center organized to provide social services to the urban poor |
| Jane Addams | Leading figure in the settlement house movement |
| direct primary | election in which citizens vote to select nominees for upcoming elections |
| initiative | citizens put a proposed new law directly on the ballot |
| referendum | allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by legislature |
| recall | voters can remove elected officials from office before their terms end |
| Florence Kelley | believed that women were hurt by the unfair prices of goods they had to buy to run their homes |
| NCL | National Consumers League; gave special labels to goods & unfair working conditions |
| temperance movement | aimed at stopping alcohol abuse & the problems created by it |
| Margaret Sanger | thought that family life and women's health would improve if women had fewer children |
| Ida B. Wells | black teacher that helped form the NACW |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | reenergized the national sufffrage effort |
| NAWSA | group that worked on state & national levels to earn women the right to vote |
| Alice Paul | best known social activist leader |
| Nineteenth Ammendment | gave women the right to vote |
| 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 the view of Booker T. Washington |
| Niagara Movement | group of blacks that pushed for immediate racial reforms, particularlyin education & voting practices |
| NAACP | organization to abolish segregation & discrimination |
| Urban League | network of churches & clubs that set up employment agencies & relief efforts to blacks |
| Anti-Defamation League | organization formed to defend jews against physical & verbal attacks & false statements |
| mutualistas | organized groups of Mexican Americans that make loans & provide legal assistance to other members of their community |
| Theodore Roosevelt | President of the US |
| Square Deal | program of reforms that the wealthy & powerful from taking advantage of small business owners & the poor |
| Hepburn Act | law that gave the gov. the authority to set RR rates & such |
| Meat Inspection Act | federal gov. inspected meat sold acroos state lines & required federal inspection of meat processing plants |
| Pure Food & Drug Act | law that allowed federal inspection of food & medicine & banned the shipment & sale of impure food |
| John Muir | California naturalist |
| Gifford Pinchot | led the division of Forestry in the US Department of Agriculture |
| National Reclamation Act | law that gave feds the power to decide where & how water would be distributed |
| Progressive Party | political party that emerged from the Taft-Roosevelt battle that split the Republican party |
| Woodrow Wilson | democratic candidate |
| New Freedom | Woodrow Wilson's program to place gov controls on corporations in order to benefit small businesses |
| 16th ammendment | gave congress the authority to levy an income tax |
| Federal Reserve Act | law that placed national banks under control of the federal reserve board |
| Federal Trade Commission | gov agency established to identify monopolistic businesses, false advertising, & dishonest labeling |
| Clayton Antitrust Act | law that strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act |
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