HI80 Unit 3 The Wild West

Jacob Riis

Journalist photographer became famous for exposing horrible conditions in NYC tenaments

Settlement Houses

Neighborhood centers in poor areas that offered education, recreationn, special activities

Jane Addams

Made hull houses

Hull house

most famous settlement house at the time

Florence Kelley

A reformer who wrote about the problems in sweatshops

Progressives

Reformers working to solve problems caused by rapid industrial + Urban growth and improve society

Muckrakers

journalists who exposed the muck (filth) of society

17th Amendment

Senators are elected directly by voters

Recall

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Initiative

allowed voters to propose a new law by collecting signatures on a petition

Referendum

permitted voters to approve or reject a law that had already been proposed or passed by a govt body

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

Fire in factory that also made govt add more safety laws

Workers compensation laws

Guarantees portion of lost wages to injured workers

Capitalism

private businesses run most industries and competition

Socialism

Govt owns and operates a country’s means of production

18th amendment

Manufacture, sale, and transport of alcohol prohibited

NAWSA

Promotes cause of women’s suffrage

Alice Paul

Founded National Women’s Party

19th amendment

Grant Women right to vote

Booker T. Washington

Encouraged African Americans to improve education and economic being

Ida B. Wells

Wrote articles about unequal education to african american children

W.E.B. Dubois

Fought Racial Injustice

NAACP

Called for economic and educational equality for african american’s

Theodore Roosevelt

Took presidency after McKinley died

Pure food and Drug act

Prohibits manufacture, sale, and transport of mislabled or contaminated food and drugs

Conservation

Protection of nature and resources

William Howard Taft

POTUS in 1908

favored business regulation and opposed socialism

Progressive Party

Third political party by Theodore Roosevelt after he won

Believes rights to retire w/ dignity, organize, ending poverty, and ending mass incarceration

Woodrow Wilson

28th POTUS (1913-1921)

Democratic president sitting behind the rivalry of Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft and won

16th Amendment

created modern federal income tax without making a prior SCOTUS ruling impossible

Horizontal Integration

(Rockefeller) When you purchased all other companies in your industry

Vertical Integration

(Carnegie) When you own every business in step of making your product