30 Vocab Terms Need To Know Flashcards
Alice Paul
Alice paul argued that the 19th amendment alone would not be sufficient to protect women’s rights
Ashcan School
an artistic movement in the United States during the late 19th-early 20th century that produced works portraying scenes of daily life in New York, often in the city’s poorer neighborhoods.
Boxer Rebellion
The boxer rebellion was widely spread across China. They launched a revolt against foreigners they were a secret chinese martial arts society
Darwinism (Natural Selection)
Darwinism argued that the human species had evolved from earlier forms of life
DW Griffith
Premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance.
Emilio Aguinaldo
Led by Emilio Aguinaldo, who claimed to head the legitimate government of the nation, Filipinos carried the American army of occupation from island to island for more than three years.
Eugenics
Eugenics advocated the forced sterilization of the mentally retarded, criminals and others
Farmers’ Alliances
Alliances among farmers started in 1875. By 1880 the southern alliance had 4 million members
Free Silver
Populists argued for free silver and miners as a result did not want to join the party
Hull House
Hull House opened by Jane Addams to help immigrant families adapt to the new norms of the country
IWW (Wobblies)
The word “Wobbly”, a nickname for IWW members, humorously illustrates the union’s efforts to combat racism. The IWW began to organize workers excluded from the AFL
Jacob Riis
a Danish immigrant and New York newspaper reporter and photographer, shocked many middle-class Americans with his sensational descriptions and pictures of tenement lives
Kate Chopin
an American writer best known for her stories about the inner lives of sensitive, daring women.
Louis Brandeis
gained a reputation as a formidable defender and advocate for everyday Americans through his many crusading cases
NAACP
the National Association for the Advancement of colored people.
National Consumer League
The National Consumers League, formed in the 1890s under the leadership of Florence Kelley, a prominent social reformer, attempted to mobilize the power of women as consumers to force retailers and manufacturers to improve wages and working conditions for women workers
Nineteenth Amendment
June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote
Open Door Policy
The US was asking for them to open the door just for America
The next year year secretary of state John Hay translated those words into policy he addressed Identical messages which became known as the open door policy
Platt Amendment
The Platt Amendment barred Cuba from making treaties with other nations
Populism
Populism started as a result of the lack of government assistance
Prohibition
Prohibition was a nationwide ban on the sale and import of alcoholic beverages that lasted from 1920 to 1933
Sherman Antitrust Act
Seen as a symbolic measure that had no change to corporate power
Many anti trusts against labor unions.
Tammany Hall
It became the main local political machine of the Democratic Party, and played a major role in controlling New York City and New York State politics and helping immigrants
Tenements
The word “tenement” had originally referred simply to a multiple-family rental building, but by the late nineteenth century it was being used to describe slum dwellings only
Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
Triangle shirtwaist company
in New York 146 workers, most of them women, Died Many of them had been trapped inside the burning building because management had locked the emergency exits to prevent malingering
Upton Sinclair
who pioneered the kind of journalism known as “muckraking.
W.E.B. Du Bois
Du Bois was already well known as one of the foremost Black intellectuals of his era.NAACP’s director of publicity and research and starting the organization’s official journal, The Crisis, in 1910.
William James
William James was a psychologist and philosopher who had a major influence on the development of psychology in the United States.
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan defended free silver in one of the most famous political speeches
William McKinely
Republican candidate in 1896 who opposed silver coinage
Both parties wanted to find a pro silver candidate
