APUSH Ch. 18.2 Flashcards | World Wars

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Scientific Management

Management campahin to improve worker efficiency using measurement like “time and motion” studies to achieve greater productivity; introduced by Frederick Winslow Taylor in 1911.

Socialist Party

Political party demanding public ownership of major economic enterprises in the United States as well as reofmrs like recognition of labor unions and woman suffrage. Reached its peak of influence in 1912 when president candidate Eugene V. Debs received of 900,000 votes.

Collective Bargaining

Negotiations between the employer and a group of employees to regulate working conditions.

Industrial Workers of the World

Radical Union organization in Chicago 1905 and nicknamed the Wobblies; its opposition to WOrld War I led to its destruction by federal government under the Espionage Act.

Heterodoxy

A women’s club located in Greenwich Village. It brought together female professionals, academics, and reformers.

“What is Feminism?”

Woman’s emancipation “both as a human being and a sex-being.”

Bohemia

Social circle of artists, writers, and others who reject conventional rules and practices.

Sigmun Frued

Founder of psychiatry. Lectured at Clark University. Talked about infantile sexuality.

Birth-control Movement

An offshoot of the early twentieth-century feminist movement that saw access to birth control and “voluntary motherhood” as essential to women’s freedom. The birth-control Movement was led by Margaret Sanger.

Margaret Sanger

Put the birth-control movement to the heart of feminism. Taught sex-education and advertised birth control.

Helen Keller

Leading advocate for persons with disabilities. Campaigned for birth control, and supported socialism, women’s suffrage, was a long time member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the rights of laborers, and world peace.

Society of American Indians

Carlos Montezuma was a founder of this. This is a reform organization that brought together Indigenous intellectuals to promote discussion of the plight of the indigenous peoples in hope that public exposure will result in reparations, and individualism of indigenous to uplift them.