Chapter 8/9 Flashcards
Person who goes to a new country to live
Immigrant
Combination of companies dominating an industry
Trust
Sophisticated organization developed to win votes
Political machine
A community that blossomed at the edge of a city
Suburb
Apartment building, often a rental
Tenement
The growth of cities
Urbanization
Developments in _ helped promote the move to the suburbs
Transportation
The opening of a _ in the city was a magnet that pulled in new residents
Factories
Most immigrants settled in _.
Cities
Social problems of the cities included buildings that had no source of _
Fresh air
The most famous political machine in the country was headquarter in
Tammany hall
The rash of business mergers and buyouts helped account for the growing concentration of _
Wealth
Through wages increases slowly between 1890 and 1910, most workers live just outside the reach of _
Financial ruin
Photographer and journalist _ exposed the suffering of those who lived in tenements
Jacob Riis
Large companies could cut costs, which accounted for some benefits of _
Consumers
Two of the most severe urban problems were _ and _
Poor housing
Political corruption
What term names the progressive strategy that emphasized the role of the church in improving life on earth?
Social gospel movement
What word names a writer who motivates the public to attack political and social corruption?
Muckraker
What term names an institution the provided education and social services to poor people?
Settlement house
What word names a reformer?
Progressive
_ feared the concentration of power in the hands of a wealthy few.
Progressive
Unlike populists, progressives usually lived in _
Cities
Social scientist _ believed that a larger role by government would improve the social environment
Lester ward
Muckrakers such as _ and _ exposed ruthless methods of big business and the horrible
Ida B tornbell and Upton Sinclair
One leader of the socialist gospel movement,_ , believed that the cause of ills in society stemmed from environmental conditions such as _ and _.
Walter rauschenbusch
Unemployment
Poverty
One of the leaders in the battle against child labor was _
Florence Kelley
During the progressive era, women were taking a more _ role in confronting political and economic problems
Active
A leader of the antilynching movement was _
Ida B wells
Who established a settlement house?
Jane Addams
Who investigate conditions under which goods are made?
National consumers’ league
Who helped African Americans improve their living conditions?
Nation urban league
Political reform that gave citizens a chance to remove an elected official from office before the persons term ended
Recall
Political reform that allowed citizens to introduce a bill into legislature and required members to take a vote on it
Initiative
Political reform that established a procedure by which voters cast ballots for or against proposed laws
Referendum
An election open to all voted within the party
Direct primary
Many cities switched either to a _ system of government or to a _ system
Commissioner
City manager
Governor _ made Wisconsin the premier example of a state which citizens directed and controlled their government
Robert La Follette
To allow citizens instead of_ to select candidates for office, La Follette pressured the legislature to pass a law instituting a direct primary
Party bosses
The women _ movement gained momentum in the 1890’s.
Suffrage
One way government regulated _ was by establishing commissions to oversee or run utilities
Big business
To care for injured workers congress passed the _ law
Workers compensation
A limited workday for women was a major victory in the progressives battle to make government a protector of the _
Public interest
One of the key progressive reforms for children was the expansion of _
Public education
The temperance movement aimed to protect _
Women
The city of _ was seen as a model of political efficiency
Galveston
The state of _ was seen as a laboratory of democracy
Wisconsin
Settlement imposed by an outside party
Arbitration
Company that bought controlling shares of stock in member companies instead of purchasing the companies out right
Holding company
Rational scientific management of national resources such as forests
Resource management
Roosevelt’s political career began in _ state
New York
_ rode his fame as a rough rider on San Juan Hill to political victory
Roosevelt
Roosevelt served as vice president for _
McKinely
Roosevelt reversed the trend of _ presidents to become the first _ president
Weak
Modern
Roosevelt selected _ to head up the US forest service.
Gifford Pinchot
Resource management drew criticism from big business as well as from environmentalists such as _ of California
John Muir
Even though Congress had passed the Sherman antitrust act industrialist developed other methods of control such as _ companies
Holding
The public praised Roosevelt as a trustbuster for his action against the _ company
Northern securities
Roosevelt helped bring about a compromise between the _ and the mine owners
United mine workers
