APUSH 7 Flashcards
African American progressive who supported segregation and demanded that African American better themselves individually to achieve equality.
Booker T Washington
Progressive author and founder of the NAACP who thought that blacks would be best served by the “talented 10th” and receive government aid to gain equality.
WEB DuBois
(1883) Frederick Taylor’s introduction of this practice helped industrial engineers to produce more efficient factories.
Scientific Management
1911 death of 145 people, mostly young immigrant girl, burned or crushed to death by leaping out of windows etc. Resulted in stronger building codes.
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Upheld a law limiting women’s workday to 10 hours based on the need to protect women’s health for motherhood.
Muller v. Oregon
Protective tariff that was passed to ease the Panic of 1893—It had an amendment on it that created a graduated income tax.
Wilson-Gorman Tariff 1894
This act created a commission, the ICC, to check and regulate RR abuses- rates, rebates, discrimination, and required annual reports and financial statement.
Interstate Commerce Act 1887
Voluntary rationing of food stuffs during WWI named after Herbert Hoover the head of the Food Administration
Hooverizing
The principle of strong self-reliance in Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier thesis and used as a theme to the Harding election campaign of 1920.
Rugged Individualism
The unlawful leasing of public oil fields to private business during the Harding administration.
Teapot Dome Scandal
The US propaganda office to help convince Americans to support the US entry into WWI. Also known as the Creel Committee and lead by George Creel
Committee on Public Information
Founder of UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association) and the Motherland Africa movement in the 1920’s. He was jailed for fraud
Marcus Garvey
Alienated authors disillusioned with the 1920—conformity and culture including Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Gertrude Stein.
Lost Generation
African American art, music and literature that flourished in the 1920’s in New York City.
Harlem Renaissance
Migration of over 400,000 African Americans from the rural South to the industrial cities of the North during and after WWI
Great Migration