Chapter 21 AP US
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- Lewis Hines
- wrote magazine stories and took photographs of children at work in the mines, mills and factories, launched a campaign to oppose child labor
- Progressive reform belief
- government had to fix social evils
- Alice Paul pros
- help temperance movement, end war
- Nellie Bly
- had herself committed to a mental hospital to expose the shocking treatment there
- Jane Adams
- opened the first settlement house, Hull House
- 17th amendment
- direct election of senators, people elected US senators, more democratic
- Alice Paul
- created the Congressional Union and National Womens Party; pushed for the equal rights amendment
- Dr. WEB Dubois
- wanted political equality and higher education for the qualified, talented tenth; helped establish the NAACP
- womens suffrage movement
- womens right to vote, led by Stanton, Anthony, and Catt
- the referendum
- voters can over rule laws passed by the state legislature
- black rights movement
- wanted to eliminate discrimination, led by WEB Dubois
- Naturalization
- Hull House provided the first citizenship preparation classes in America. Immigrants studied English, US History and the US Constitution. They became citizens
- Booker T. Washington
- wanted African Americans to focus on getting a job, believed that equality would be gained through vocational education, accepted social seperation
- Club Women
- accomplished: trees, neighborhood beautification, parks, schools, libraries, hospitals, supported settlement houses
- the referendum
- voters can actually make law
- Club Women
- nonpartisan
- muckrakers
- journalists in the Progressive era often wrote about corrupt politics and dishonest ways of doing business
- New Woman
- technology eased time consuming housework
- Club Women
- extended role out of home and family
- environment
- the strongest element of much progressive thought was the belief in the influence of the ______
- goals of the progressive era
- allow gov't to be more controlled by more people, guarantee economic opportunity through gov't regulation shield
- the black clowd
- industrialization
- city commission plan
- cities hired experts in different fields to run a single aspect of city gov't
- 19th amendment
- women's suffrage, the right to vote for women, last major reform of the progressive era
- Laws that increased the power of voters....
- decreased the power of state legislatures
- direct election
- voters can elect US senators, democratic
- Alice Paul cons
- assumed inferiority of blacks and immigrants
- indirect election
- senators elected by state legislatures, often corrupt
- temperance movement
- abstain from manufacturing alcohol, led by Carrie Nation
- clayton antitrust act
- outlawed price fixing, exempted unions from the sherman antitrust act
- the initiative
- voters can propose state laws
- 1913
- 16 & 17th amendment's year
- state progressive reforms
- primary election, initiative, referendum, recall, child labor laws
- what the IWW wanted
- to end capitalism and called for gov't ownership of business and industries
- improvement
- progressives believed society was capacle of ____
- Club Women
- social betterment
- New Woman
- expand and confirm seperate sphere
- investigative journalism
- reform minded writers began looking into and writing about specific problems
- most progressives were members of the _____ class
- middle
- Hull House
- nursery, kindergarten, day care, employment bureau, adult education classes, playground, gym, theater, library, art gallery, doctor and bath house
- led the prohibition movement
- frances willard of the womens christian temperance union
- New Woman
- fewer children, spent more time in school
- socialism movement
- wanted government control of industry, led by Eugene V. Debs
- 1919
- year of 18th amendment
- anarchism movement
- wanted to eliminate government, led by Emma Goldwin
- the referendum
- voters can vote on laws
- Club Women
- did not overtly challenge the role of women in society
- child labor movement
- regulate or limit the employment of children, led by Florence Kelley
- the direct primary
- voters can nominate candidates
- reform governors
- Roosevelt NY, Wilson NJ, LaFollete Wisc, Johnson CA
- the secret ballot
- privacy at the ballot box ensures that citizens can cast votes without party bosses knowing how they voted
- Lincoln Steffens
- writer The Shame of the Cities, exposing political corruption in many US cities, wrote about political bosses and machines
- New Woman
- more highly educated
- Club Women
- many were wealthy
- city manager system
- a professional city manager is hired to run each department of the city and report directly to the city council
- Ida Tarbell
- writer The History of Standard Oil, described John D Rockefeller's ruthless business tactics and use of monopoly
- the recall
- voters can remove an elected official before his term had expired
- radical labor movement
- wanted to abolish capitolism, led by William Hayword
- Upton Sinclair
- writer The Jungle, about horrible working conditions for immigrants in the Chicago stockyards, Pure Food and Drug act resulted
- 16th amendment
- graduated income tax, put tax burden on the rich, addressed the problem of inequality of wealthy
- new freedom
- woodrow wilson's federal reform program
- 18th amendment
- prohibition, banned manufacture, slae and transportation of alcoholic beverages
- led women's suffrage movement
- carrie chapman catt NAWSA
- Jacob Riis
- writer How the Other Half Lives, described the horrible living conditions of immigrants who lived in tenements in the slums
- local progressive reforms
- commission system, council manager plan, secret ballot