Industrial Revolution P.3 Flashcards

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What is an initiative?

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Process that allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by a legislature.

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What is progressivism?

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When you advance or become better.

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What is a settlement house?

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An institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community.

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Who was Jane Addams?

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She led the settlement house movement.

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What is a direct primary?

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Election in which the citizens themselves vote to select nominees for upcoming elections.

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What is a social gospel?

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A reform movement that emerged in the late 19th century that sought to improve society by applying Christian principles.

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Who was Muckrakers?

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A writer who uncovers and exposes misconduct in politics or business. Their investigative reporting uncovers am dramatizes societal ills.

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What is a referendum?

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Process in which citizens put a proposed new law directly on the ballot.

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What is a recall?

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Process for voters can remove elected officials from office before their team ends.

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Progressives were reformers who:

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Believed industrialization and urbanization had created social and political problems.

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What class were the progressives from?

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Middle class

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How did progressives want to reform?

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Logic and reason

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What did progressives want to end?

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Corruption

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Progressives tried to make the government more of what?

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Responsive to the people’s needs.

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Progressives believed that educated leaders should use what?

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Modern ideas and scientific techniques to improve society.

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What 5 issues did progressives try to target?

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  1. Corrupt political machines
  2. Trusts and monopolies
  3. Safety and inequalities
  4. City services
  5. Women’s suffrage
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What did Sinclair’s novel “The Jungle” provide?

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A shocking look at meat packing in Chicago’s stockyards.

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What did Jane Addam’s urban community centers provide?

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Social services for immigrants and the poor.

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What did Christian reformers believe in ?

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The social gospel

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What did progressives succeed in reducing?

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Child labor and improving school enrollment.

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True or false ?

In the 1900s, the U.S. had the world’s worst rate of industrial accidents.

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True

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In 1911 how many workers died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Facory?

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156 workers

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What was an important issue for progressives after what happened at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?

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Worker safety

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To reform society, progressives realized they must also reform what?

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The government

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Government could not be controlled by what two things?

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  1. Political bosses

2. Business interests

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Describe the temperance movement.

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Progressives wanted to ban alcohol because they felt it led men to spend their earning on liquor, neglect their families, and abuse their wives.

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Who was Ida B. Wells?

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Founded the NACW National Association Of Colored Women in 1896. Also worked for suffrage to end lynchings and to stop segregation in the Chicago schools.

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Who was Carrie Chapman Catt?

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President of the National Suffrage Association.

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Who is Alice Paul?

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She formed the National woman’s party which focused on passing an amendment to the constitution guaranteeing women the right to vote.

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Who was Margaret Sanger?

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She believed that having fewer children would lead to healthier women opened the first birth control clinic. Later goes to jail.

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What is a suffrage?

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When you suffer.

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What was the NAWSA?

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National Association Of Colored Women in 1896.

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What is the 19th amendment?

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A vote “shall not denied or abridged on account of sex”

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Muller v. Oregon went to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled what?

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States could legally limit a woman’s work day. This ruling recognized the unique role of women as mothers.