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Amer. Hist. Ch. 17
American History Chapter 17
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| progressive movement | reform efforts aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct injustices in American life |
| YMCA | Young Men's Christian Association - held classes and built pools and athletic courts to improve social welfare |
| Florence Kelly | advocate for improving the lives of women and children. helped in passage of Illinois Factory Act in 1893 to ban child labor and limit women's hours |
| prohibition | banning of alcoholic beverages |
| WCTU | Woman's Christian Temperance Union - spearheaded the crusade for prohibition |
| anti-saloon league | members sought to close saloons to cure society's problems that brought tension between them and immigrants |
| Eugene V. Debs | Labor leader who helped organize the Socialist Party in 1901 |
| muckrakers | journalists who wrote about corrupt side of business and public life in magazines |
| Ida Tarbell | writer who wrote "History of the Standard Oil Company" about company's cutthroat methods to eleminate competition |
| scientific management | putting faith in scientific principles to make society and the workplace more efficient - time studies - motion studies |
| commission form of government | 5 member commission of experts take ove rhte running of goverment each in charge of a department |
| council manager forma of government | people elected a city council to make laws and council appointed manager with experience to run the city departments |
| Robert M. La Follette | Reform governor who targeted railroad industry - from Wisconsin |
| National Child Labor Committee | formed in 1904 to investigate childrens working conditions and expose children plight |
| Keating Owen Act of 1916 | act that prohibited the transportation across state lines of goods produced with child labor |
| Bunting vs. Oregon | Supreme Court case that persuaded the court to uphold a 10 hour workday for men |
| initiative | a bill originated by the people rather than lawmakers - on the ballot |
| referendum | a proposed law is submitted for a vote by the public |
| recall | allows voters to remove public officials from elected positions by forcing to face another election before the end of their term |
| 17th amendment | allowed for direct election of Senators |
| Vassar College | new womens college with faculty of 8 men and 22 women |
| NACW | National Association of Colored Women |
| Susan B. Anthony | leading proponent of women suffrage |
| suffrage | right to vote |
| NAWSA | National American Women Suffrage Association |
| Upton Sinclair | muckraking journalist who wrote "The Jungle" |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclairs book about Chicago stockyards and terrible working conditions in the meatpacking industry |
| Theodore Roosevelt | became President after McKinley was asasinated - youngest Pres. at age of 42 |
| Square Deal | Roosevelt's progressive reforms |
| Trusts | legal bodies created to hold slock in many companies |
| Trustbusting | getting rid of trusts |
| 1902 Coal Strike | 140,00 coal miners in Pennsylvania went on strike to demand a 20% raise in wages, a 9hr work day + right to organize Union |
| ICC | Interstate Commerce Commission set up to regulate the railroad |
| Elkins Act | made it illegal for railroad officials to give or shippers to receive rebates for using a particular railroad |
| Meat Inspection Act | 1906 dictated strict cleanliness requirements for meatpackers + created program for federal meat inspection |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | 1906 halted sale of contaminated foods + medicines and called for truth in labeling |
| Gifford Pinchot | Head of US Forest Service |
| Conservation | preservation of the wilderness |
| Booker T. Washington | Head of Tuskegee Institute, an all black tranning school |
| W.E.B. Dubois | African american who accommodated segregationisls blamed black poverty on blacks, urqed them to accept discrimination |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of colored people aimed for full equality among races |
| William Howard Taft | Won election of 1908 for President |
| Payne-Aldrich Tariff | lowered rates on imported manufactured goods angered Proqressives |
| Bull Moose Party | The Republican party split and Roosevelt formed the Proqressive party known as this |
| Woodrow Wilson | Democrat who won Election of 1912 |
| New Freedom | Wilson's Progressive platform- stronger antitrust legislation, banking reform, + reduced tariffs |
| Who won the Election of 1912? | Woodrow Wilson |
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