Chapter 20 - The Progressives

Du Bois

________ advocated talented blacks should accept nothing less than a full university education.

Triangle Shirtwaist Company

In 1911, a terrible fire swept through the factory of the ________ in New York City; 146 workers, most of them women, died.

Social Darwinists

________ such as William Graham Sumner had argued that peoples fortunes reflected their inherent "fitness "for survival.

African Americans

________ faced greater obstacles than any other group in challenging their own oppressed status and seeking reform.

middle class

The muckrakers struck a responsive chord among a powerful group of urban, ________ progressives.

Drunkenness

________ spawned violence, and occasionally murder, within urban families.

Temperance

________ had been a major reform movement before the Civil War, mobilizing large numbers of people in a crusade with strong evangelical overtones.

Salvation Army

The ________, which began in England but soon spread to the United States, was one example of the fusion of religion with reform The Settlement House Movement.

dramatic expansion

The late nineteenth century saw a(n) ________ in the number of Americans engaged in administrative and professional tasks.

Progressives

________ did not always agree on the form their intervention should take, and the result was a variety of reform impulses that sometimes seemed to have little in common.

muckrakers

They became known as the “________” after Theodore Roosevelt accused one of them of racking up muck through his writings.

social justice

The growing outrage at social and economic injustice helped produce many reformers committed to the pursuit of what came to be known as “________.”

settlement house

Working in a ________, which was a protected site that served mostly women, was consistent with the widespread assumption that women needed to be sheltered from difficult environments.

American Medical Association

In 1901, doctors who considered themselves trained professionals reorganized the ________ into a national professional society.

Nursing

________ had become primarily a women’s field during and after the Civil War

new woman

The phenomenon of the “________,” widely remarked upon at the time, was a product of social and economic changes that affected the private world as much as the public one, even if such changes affected mostly middle-class people.

Boston marriages

Others lived with other women, often in long-term relationships— some of them quietly romantic—that were known at the time as “________.”

initiative

The ________ allowed reformers to circumvent state legislatures by submitting new legislation directly to the voters in general elections.

primary election

The ________ was an attempt to make the selection of candidates away from the bosses and give it to the people.

referendum

Two of the most important changes were innovations first proposed by Populists in the 1890s: the initiative and the ________.