Industrial Revolution P.3 Flashcards
What is an initiative?
Process that allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by a legislature.
What is progressivism?
When you advance or become better.
What is a settlement house?
An institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community.
Who was Jane Addams?
She led the settlement house movement.
What is a direct primary?
Election in which the citizens themselves vote to select nominees for upcoming elections.
What is a social gospel?
A reform movement that emerged in the late 19th century that sought to improve society by applying Christian principles.
Who was Muckrakers?
A writer who uncovers and exposes misconduct in politics or business. Their investigative reporting uncovers am dramatizes societal ills.
What is a referendum?
Process in which citizens put a proposed new law directly on the ballot.
What is a recall?
Process for voters can remove elected officials from office before their team ends.
Progressives were reformers who:
Believed industrialization and urbanization had created social and political problems.
What class were the progressives from?
Middle class
How did progressives want to reform?
Logic and reason
What did progressives want to end?
Corruption
Progressives tried to make the government more of what?
Responsive to the people’s needs.
Progressives believed that educated leaders should use what?
Modern ideas and scientific techniques to improve society.
What 5 issues did progressives try to target?
- Corrupt political machines
- Trusts and monopolies
- Safety and inequalities
- City services
- Women’s suffrage
What did Sinclair’s novel “The Jungle” provide?
A shocking look at meat packing in Chicago’s stockyards.
What did Jane Addam’s urban community centers provide?
Social services for immigrants and the poor.
What did Christian reformers believe in ?
The social gospel
What did progressives succeed in reducing?
Child labor and improving school enrollment.
True or false ?
In the 1900s, the U.S. had the world’s worst rate of industrial accidents.
True
In 1911 how many workers died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Facory?
156 workers
What was an important issue for progressives after what happened at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
Worker safety
To reform society, progressives realized they must also reform what?
The government
