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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 in politics or businesses |
| lincoln steffens | managing editoe at "McClures", 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 19th century that sought to improve society by applying christian principles |
| settlement houses | community center organized to provide social services to the urban poor |
| jane addams | leading figure in the settlement house moverment |
| direct primary | election in which citizens vote to select nominees for the upcoming election |
| 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 Kelly | 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 and the problems created by it |
| Margaret Sanger | thought that family life and womens health would improve if women had less children |
| Ida D Wells | black teacher that helped from the NACW |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | reenegerized the national suffrage effort |
| NAWSA | group that worked on state and national levels to earn women the right to vote |
| Alice Paul | best known social activist leader |
| 19th amendment | gave women the right to vote |
| Americanization | belief that assimilating immigrants into the 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 |
| Niagra Movement | group of blacks that pushed for immediate racial reforms, particularly education and voting practices |
| NAACP | organization to abolish segregation and discrimination |
| Urban League | network of churches and clubs that set up employment agencies and relief efforts to blacks |
| Anti-Defamation League | organiztion formed to defend jews against physical and verbal attacks and false statements |
| mutualistas | organized groups of Mexican Americans that makes loans and provide legal assistance to other members of their community |
| Theodore Roosevelt | President of the US |
| Square Deal | program of reforms that the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of small business owners and the poor |
| Hephurn Act | law that gave the gov.the authority to set RR rates and such |
| Meat Inspection Act | federal gov. inspected meat sold across the state lines and required federal inspection of meat processing plants |
| Pure Food & Drug Act | law that allowed federal inspection of food and medicine and banned the shipment and 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 and how water would be distibuted |
| Progressive party | political party that emerged from the taft-roosevelt battle that split the republican party |
| Woodrow Wilson | democratic canidate |
| new freedom | woodrow wilsons program to place gov controls on corporations in order to benefit small businesses |
| 16th amendent | 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, and dishonest labeling |
| Clayton AntiTrust Act | law that strengthened the Sherman AntiTrust Act |
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