Chapter 20 & 21 Flashcards
Progressive
Middle class; rises out of frustration for the golden age
Muckrakers
Journalists who wrote about the abuses in society; a bad word
Women suffrage at the work place
payed half for the exact same work as men
The Social Gospel
The idea ministering to the body; church helping the poor & suffering
Jane Addams hull house
Settlement house for immigrants
Walter Rauschenbusch
Baptist preacher relates to the social gospel; goal isn’t to get up to heaven but to create one on earth
Salvation Army
Church organization to help the poor
AMA 1901
American Medical Association
19th Amendment
1920; gave women the right to vote
Suffrage Movement
1848; push for women the right to vote
Commission Plan
instead of having one president they spread out the power to like three different people to avoid corruption
City Manager
Hired to call the shots; runs everything
Initiative
Voters propose legislation
Referendum
Legislators puts laws on ballots; voters vote on it
Recall
Elective officials can be removed from office by special election (mid-term)
Direct Primary
Voters choose political candidates
17th Amendment
Voters elect senators
Robert Lafollete
Wisconsin laboratory of progressive; governor and senator of Wisconsin
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Mostly women were killed; lead to safety reforms
Booker T. Washington
Wrote a book “Up from Slavery”; talked about economics
WEB Dubios
anti-segregation; first black man to get a degree
NAACP
Nation Association of Advanced Colored People
Talented Tenth
Idea that the 10% of colored people were responsible for making the other 90% rise up
Temperance
No alcohol
WCTU
Women’s Christian Temperance Union; against alcohol
18th Amendment
No alcohol production; lasted till 1933
Eugenics
Idea of genetically creating a race
Eugene Debs
socialist; leader of the American railroad Association
Theodore Roosevelt
progressive and brought lots of power to president
Square deal
1) Protect consumers 2) restrict corruption 3) conservation
Hepburn Act
could set railroad rates and strengthened railroad commerce admission
Pure Food and Drug Act
ingredients of drugs and food to be listed on labels for customers to see
Meat Inspection Act
Requires to expect the meat before cooking
John Muir
Founder of the Sierra Club
Sierra Club
First environmental organization
William H. Taft
Biggest president not that good
Payne Aldrich Tariff
started as a move to lower rates but actually raised rates
Ballinger Pinchot
Taffs secretary of interfered alienating more progressives and Roosevelt
Election of 1912
Roose came back and ran for president
Bull Moose
Roose came back and said he was as fit as a bull moose
New Nationalism
1910 Pottawatomie, Kansas; graduated income tax, workers compensation,regulation of women and child labor, tariff revision, regulations on corruptions
Woodrow Wilson
President of Princeton; governor of New Jersey elected pres. due to division in republican party
Underwood Tariff
Lowered tariffs to introduce more competition and break power of trusts; called for income tax to make up for lost revenue
16th Amendment
Income tax; 1% tax on incomes over 4,000 up to 6% on incomes of 500,000
Federal Trade Commission
Regulate unfair trade practices