Shared Flashcard Set

Details

PROGRESSIVISM
N/A
60
History
11th Grade
02/07/2012

Additional History Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
progressivism
Definition
political changes in social improvement throughout government
Term
muckrakers
Definition
journalists who write about social and political problems
Term
Lincoln Steffens
Definition
Shame of the Cities, corruption of city politics
Term
Jacob Riis
Definition
How the Other Half Lives, articles on tenements
Term
Ida Tarbell
Definition
History of Standard Oil Company
Term
Thorstein Veblen
Definition
power in the hands of well-trained engineers
Term
William H Welch
Definition
revolutionized teaching and medicine with more clinics and labs
Term
recall
Definition
voters remove corrupt or unsatisfactory politicians
Term
initiative
Definition
direct legislation
Term
referendum
Definition
citizens vote on laws printed on their own ballots
Term
direct primary
Definition
direct vote on party candidates
Term
Triangle ShirtWaist Fire
Definition
workers locked in so they wouldn't take breaks on the eighth floor of factory,146 dead
Term
Niagara movement
Definition
meeting of black intellectuals
Term
Booker T. Washington
Definition
stressed education, Atlanta Exposition Speech, accepted  Segregation
Term
W. E. B. Dubois
Definition
Souls of Black Folk, equal civil rights
Term
Prohibition
Definition
outlaw alcohol, saloons and family violence
Term
science of eugenics
Definition
belief that humanity qualities are hereditary
Term
Eugene Debs
Definition
industrial workers of the world
Term
Herbert Croly
Definition
Promise of American Life, nationalist policy
Term
national Farm Bureau Federation
Definition
the spread of specific farm methods, teach marketing techniques and lobby for interests of members
Term
Carrie Chapman Catt
Definition
National American Woman Suffrage
Term
social gospel
Definition
religions say we should help less fortunate
Term
Salvation Army
Definition
religious and moral combination of welfare
Term
settlement houses
Definition
Jane Addams
Term
Taylorism
Definition
more efficient factory workers
Term
women's clubs
Definition
"new women,"determine own destinies
Term
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Definition
Women and Economics
Term
natural rights
Definition
Term

amendments: 

16th 
17th
18th

19th

20th

21st

Definition
  • income tax
  • the direct election of senators
  • probation
  • woman suffrage
  • "lame duck" reduce time to wait before beginning presidency
  • overturned the 18th
Term
Tammany Hall
Definition
Boss Tweed, corrupt, social reform
Term
Robert La Follette
Definition
Wisconsin idea
Term
NAACP
Definition
Term
Industrial Workers of the World
Definition
violent radicals, socialist
Term
Louis D Brandeis
Definition
wobblies
Term
secret ballot
Definition
Term
the jungle
Definition
Upton Sinclair, horrifying conditions of Chicago meatpacking stockyards, meant to turn public to socialism
Term
pragmatism
Definition
practical
Term
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Definition
Term
years of Theodore Roosevelt's presidency
Definition
1901-1909
Term
years of William Howard Taft's presidency
Definition
1909-1913
Term
years of Woodrow Wilson's presidency
Definition
1913-1921
Term
Meat Inspection Act of 1906
Definition
federal workers would visit plans to ensure standards of sanitation format
Term
Upton Sinclair
Definition
The Jungle
Term
panic of 1907
Definition
revealed uncontrolled banking and stock market
Term
Bull Moose party
Definition
Progressives, Theodore Roosevelt, new nationalism
Term
Payne Aldrich tariff of 1909
Definition
lower tariff, with very little affect
Term
Gifford Pinchot
Definition
national conservation commission
Term
new nationalism
Definition
strong federal government, welfare, women's suffrage
Term
trust buster
Definition
eliminate monopolies
Term
new freedom
Definition
41% popular vote
Term
Federal Reserve act
Definition
basis of current monetary system
Term
Federal Trade Commission act
Definition
increased government authority in business
Term
George Marsh
Definition
Man of Nature, warned America that deforestation would cause environmental disasters
Term
Northern Securities Company
Definition
railroad trusts
Term
John Muir
Definition
important naturalist
Term
Richard A Ballinger
Definition
Term
Ida B Wells
Definition
speeches against lynching
Term
square deal
Definition
equal opportunity for laborers
Term
Pure Food and Drug Act
Definition
forbade manufacturer, sale, and transfer of mislabeled foods and drugs
Term
conservationism
Definition
protection of nature
Supporting users have an ad free experience!