us history - unit 4

progressivism

movement that believed honest and efficient government could bring about social justice

muckrakers

socially conscious journalists and writers who dramatized the need for reform

Lincoln Steffens

muckraking author of Shame of the Cities, exposed corruption in urban government

Jacob Riis

muckraking photographer and author of How The Other Half Lives, exposed the condition of the urban poor

initiative

gave citizens the power to propose laws

referendum

allowed citizens to reject or accept laws passed by their legislature

recall

gave voters the power to remove legislators before their term is up

17th amendment

alllowed the direct election of United State Senators

Florence Kelley

founded the National Consumer’s League known as the NCL

National Consumer’s League (NCL)

labeled and publicized “goods produced under fair, safe, and healthy working conditions,” represents consumers on marketplace and workplace issues

Temperance Movement

campaign to end the production, sale and use of alcohol

Margaret Sanger

opened the first birth control clinic

Ida B. Wells

helped to create and co-founded the National Association of Colored Women

suffrage

the right to vote

Carrie Chapman Catt

president of the NAWSA, campaigned to pass women’s suffrage at both the state and national levels

NAWSA

National American Woman Suffrage Association, lobbied for state suffrage amendments that would lead to a federal amendment

Alice Paul

social activist, led women to picket at the white house

19th Amendment

1919, granted the women the right to vote

Jane Addams

leader in the settlement house movement

Upton Sinclair

Author of the novel “The Jungle” which described the horrors of the meatpacking industry that in turn formed the Pure Food and Drug Act and Federal Meat Inspection Act

Ida Tarbell

wrote “The History of Standard Oil” which exposed Rockefeller as a Robber Baron

National Woman’s Party (NWP)

organization that used more militant methods to enfranchise women nationally (e.g. picketed signs outside the white house, many women arrested)

National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage

argued that woman suffrage would impede women from making social changes

Women’s Trade Union League

strove to reform working conditions by supporting women in labor unions and strikes

16th amendment

gave congress the power to collect income tax and resulted in a proportional income tax