US History Unit 3

muckrakers

Investigative journalist spreading reform ideas

Triangle Shirtwaste company

Where a fire occurred due to unsafe conditions

The government

The Progressives questioned the responsibilities of this

Booker T Washington

Believed blacks should be patient and prove their worth; founded Tuskegee University

child labor laws

Was often opposed by manufacturers, conservatives, and poor parents

the Jungle

Book written that resulted in the Pure Food and Drug Act

Protestant Fundamentalists

Stressed personal salvation over reform

Female right to vote

Reasons for it were women have a maternal and moral instinct, could influence elections and help pass progressive measures, and involvement in WWI proved they were equals

United Mine Workers Union

Demanded higher wages, union recognition, and an eight-hour work day

Big business

Negatively influencing politics in the early 1900s

Social Gospel

Sought introduce religious ethics to industrial relations.

Segregation

The forced separation of races

Theodore Roosevelt

Became president due to an assassination, used his personality to get things done, and truly represented both political parties

The national interest

Roosevelt believe made government action necessary in the United Mine Workers Union strike

The army

What Roosevelt threaten to use if the coal mining strike was not resolved

Conservation

Roosevelt's view of natural resources

Regulation

The role Roosevelt desire the government to have in business

The Panama Canal

Roosevelt believed it was his gift to mankind

Split vote

How Woodrow Wilson became president, beating Roosevelt and Taft

New Freedom

Wilson's policy to minimize the government, break up monopolies, and remove tariffs

Pendleton Act

Sought to end Political Machine's corruption

Susan B. Anthony

Arrested for attempting to vote

Jeannette Rankin

Supported the abolition of Child Labor

In His Steps

Book by Charles Monroe Sheldon that challenged people to ask themselves, "What would Jesus do?"

Alice Paul

Used a more severe methods such as mass pickets, parades, and hunger strikes to petition the right to vote

Ida Tarbell

Investigative journalist who challenged Rockefeller's bad practices

Eugene V. Debs

Radical socialist who disliked capitalism

John Muir

Preservationist who fought protect the wilderness

Jane Addams

Created settlement housing for poor immigrants

Booker T Washington

Believed blacks should prove their worth through education and hard work

Upton Sinclair

Wrote the Jungle, criticizing the meat industry

Initiative

Legislation directly to the government

Recall

Removal of unsatisfactory public officials

Referendum

Voters approve or reject legislative measures

Knights of Labor

No restriction on membership for America's first union

American Federation of Labor

Only white, male, tradesmen were members

I.W.W.

Desired all workers around the world to unite

16th Amendment

Amendment that enacted a national income tax

17th Amendment

Amendment that called for Senators to be elected by the people

18th Amendment

Amendment that called for the prohibition of alcoholic beverages

19th Amendment

Amendment that gave females the right to vote

DL Moody

Published books for the poor and prisoners, believing in education, practical instruction, and Biblical training