Muckrakers-->WWI Flashcards
muckraker
The “Muckrakers” were crusading journalists, photographers and authors who
published their work in order to raise awareness of social issues and injustices.
goals of progressivism
protecting social welfare ● promoting moral reform ● reforming the economy ● making businesses more efficient
Upton Sinclair
wrote the Jungle, investigated and exposed bad conditions at meatpacking plant. resulted in Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
Gilded Age
Mark Twain coined the term to describe America from about 1870-1900 ● when political corruption was hidden under a golden gilding of massive
industrial and economic growth ● the process of applying, the material used in, or the surface
produced by applying gold leaf or gold paint.
● Extraordinary wealth on one side was matched by extreme poverty
in the slums of the cities
Jacob Riis
Years in extreme poverty ● Used photography to crusade for better living conditions for impoverished
immigrants in NYC
○ How The Other Half Lives ● Theodore Roosevelt called him “the most useful citizen of New York.”
his work led to building codes
Ida B Wells
wrote A Red Record. fought African American lynchings. her work led to NAACP
Ida Tarbell
wrote History of Standard Oil Company, exposing Rockefeller’s tactics. led to company being denied monopoly.
Frank Norris
wrote the Octopus, fiction that exposed railroads in Calif as monopolies taking advantage
Lincoln Steffens
Shame of the Cities explored political corruption across US cities
JP Morgan
dominated finance and banking and once loaned to the US itself to help a crisis.
bought Carnegie Steel Company
Robber Barons
?illionaires during Gilded Age who would exploit others to get ahead
John D Rockefeller
dominated oil industry by buying up competitors and creating monopoly
Andrew Carnegie
dominated steel after realizing benefits of new Bessemer process. started in Pittsburgh, spread across US, supplied for bridges, skyscrapers, railroads
Cornelius Vanderbilt
dominated railroad and shipping in US; created east coast monopoly on transportation.
Horizontal Integration
John Rockefeller method. Buys up all competition to eliminate.
Vertical Integration
Andrew Carnegie method. buying all resources/companies related to industry (ex supply chain) to keep costs low. controls resources for your industry.
Monopoly
company has a claim on all business of a certain kind.
Nativists
Americans who hated immigrants and tried to limit entry
Old Immigrants
North/West Europeans who came seeking economic opportunities and religious freedom
New Immigrants
East/South Europeans and Asians who came seeking economic opportunities + fleeing revolutions
NAWSA
suffragist organization (National American Woman Suffrage Organization.) Less extreme, more inclined to use official govt channels to get their way. Peaceful. Wants representation. Led by Carrie Chapman Catt. Anti NWP. Led to many states enfranchising women pre19th Amendment.
NWP
National Women’s Party. More extreme. Protested and demonstrated against president. Hunger strikes. Led by Alice Paul.
19th Amendment
Women earn the right to vote in 1920.
Main causes of WWI
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
WW1 nicknames
called “war to end all wars” or “great war” until WW2
two biggest empires before WW1
GB + France
Militarism definition
The policy of building up a strong military to prepare for war
Which country greatly increased military, setting others on edge pre WW1?
Germany
Alliances definition
agreements between nations to give aid and to protect one another
How did the system of alliances bring countries into the war?
One would pull the next in
triple entente –
PREWAR alliance between Russia, France, GB
triple alliance
Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary
nationalism–definition
Extreme pride or loyalty in one’s country or national identity, not nec to
do with govt
Imperialism definition
When one country takes over another country both economically and politically (creating an empire)
At the outset of WWI what country had the largest empire?
GB
How did imperialism lead to WW1?
GB, Germany, France needed foreign markets after increase in manufacturing caused by Industrial Revolution. Competed for economic expansion in Africa. GB and France resolved differences, GB + France and Germany clashed in North Africa.
Also, Ottoman empire in Middle East wanted by Austria-Hungary, Balkans, Russia.