Chapter 21 - The Rise of Progressivism Flashcards

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Social Cohesion

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Belief that individuals are not autonomous but part of a great web of social relationships that the welfare of any single person is dependent on the welfare of society as a whole

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Muckwakers

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crusading journalists who began to divert public attention toward social, economic, and political injustices

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Ida Tarbell

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a muckraker who studied the standard oil trust

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Lincoln Steffens

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Most influential muckraker who studied mainly urban political machines and boss rule in his book “The Shame of Our Cities”

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Social Gospel

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Concern over social injustices that were in the US

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Salvation Army

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Christian social welfare organization with a vaguely military structure that offered material aid and spiritual service to the urban poor

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National Farm Bureau Federation

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network of agricultural organizations designed to spread scientific farming methods,teach sound marketing techniques, and lobby for the interest of their members

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New Women

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product of social andeconomic charges that affected the private world

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Boston Marriages

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Women living with other women secretly romantic

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Clubwomen

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Women who joined women’s clubs to contribute to social betterment. They never challenged traditional male dominated ideas

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NACW (National Association of Colored Women)

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African Americans formed clubs of their own. Modeled with white communities

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Mother’s Pensions

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Pensions for widowed or abandoned women with small children

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Children’s Bureau

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an agency directed to develope polcices to protect children

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Women’s Suffrage

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a movement that attracted support from both women and men but whose most important leaders were women

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Wrote about how women are equal and women should be accepted as a major role in society

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Nineteenth Amendment

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guaranteed political rights to women throughout the nation

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Equal Rights Ammendment

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a constitutional amendment that would provide clear, legal protection for their rights and would prohibit all discriminations on the basis of sex

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Split Ticket

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to vote for candidates of different parties for different offices

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Commission Plan

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mayor and council were replaced by an elected nonpartisan commision

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Tom Johnson

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pioneer in urban political and social reform USA representative and mayor of Cleveland

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Initiative

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The ability to assess and initiate things independently

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Referndum

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general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decisiom

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Recall

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people could remove incompetent politicians

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Robert M LaFollette

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Wisconsin Senator

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Charles Murphy

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known as “Boss Murphy”, head of New York’s Tammy Hall

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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

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a Fire in 1911 in NY that killed 146 workers because the doors were chained shut

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Booker T Washington

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said that one should work for immediate self improvement rather than long range social change

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WEB DuBois

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a Fisk University graduate who wrote “The Souls of Black Folk” which launched an open attack on the philosophy of the Atlanta Comprimise

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Talented Tenth

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the most educated and intelligent of the black race

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Niagara Movement

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An event at Niagara falls on the canadian side as hotels in American would not allow them to stay

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Womens Christian Temperance Movement

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The Single largest women’s orginization in American history against alcohol

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Eighteenth Ammendment

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prohibited the sale of alcohol in the US

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Eugenics

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the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurence of desirable heritable characteristics

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Socialist Party

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believed that production and exchange should be controlled by the state not by the governemnt. Debs was the last Socialist Candidate

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Eugene Debs

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Candidate for the socialist party in 5 elections. Strong political leader who was imprisoned in 1890 for encouraging a strike. Ran in 1912

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Louis Brandeis

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American lawyer and assembled justice on the supreme court who opposed bigness and its inefficiency

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Herbert Croly

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Leader of the progressive movement as an editor, political philosopher, and cofounder of the magazine “The New Republic” He wanted government intervention in business