the american yawp chapter 20

1. Reform

- was the demand for voting rights, higher wages, and became known as the word of the day.

2. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

- occurred in 1911 at a factory in Manhattan. The doors were chained shut to prevent 200 women employees from taking breaks.

3. "Muckrakers"

-journalists who spoke truths to power by exposing business practices, poverty, and corruption and were labeled by Roosevelt as the Muckrakers.

4. Looking Backward

-was a popular novel written by Edward Bellamy in 1888.

5. Walter Rauschenbusch

- was a German Baptist church pastor in NYC and advocated the social gospel addressing crime, poverty, and other problems.

6. The Club Movement

- were organizations that helped communities and women in a large political spere.

7. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union

- was a temperance organization to combat or fight drunkenness.

8. Jane Addams and Hull House

- Addams was a graduate of the Rockford Female Seminary and traveled Europe on the "grand tour" like other American graduates. She founded the Hull House in Chicago where women and children were cares for with classes, clubs, and social events.

9. Women's Suffrage

- pushed women into American public life.

10. "The Trusts"

- was a monopoly or a cartel associated with large corporations of the Gilded and Progressive Eras that was made to exclusively control a specific product or industry under a single entity.

11. Business Regulation

- came in a series of federal and state laws to try and control the runaway growth of businesses.

12. The 1912 Presidential Election

- this selection made Roosevelt start his own party called the Progressive or "Bull Moose Party" to run for president.

13. John Muir

- was the founder of the Sierra club and naturalist.

14. The Conservation Movement-

was launched with environmental utilitarianism with resources, planning, control, and no waste.

15. Disfranchisement

- was advocated by progressive, electoral, and social reforms.

16. Segregation

- was the separation with tax, color, and other requirements.

17. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

- challenged Louisiana's segregation laws.

18. Booker T. Washington

- established Tuskegee institute in Alabama.

19. The "Atlanta Compromise" Speech

- was written by Booker T. Washington to improve life under segregation.

20. W.E.B. Du Bois

- believed that industrial education and vocational training would help African Americans achieve economic independence.

What ideas animated American progressives?

Progressives wanted to create a more open and accountable government that would work to better society in the United States.

What major reforms did American progressives pursue?

Civil service reform, food safety rules, and enhanced political rights for women and U.S. workers were among the reformers' priorities.

How did American women shape the progressive movement?

Women reformers during the Progressive Era established state and national initiatives such as pensions for mothers and public assistance for widows.

How did Jim Crow influence life for both white and black Americans?

A particular emphasis was made on ensuring that Black people could vote The civil rights movement began as a result of this, and Jim Crow laws were eventually repealed.

How do the similarities and differences between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois capture major currents in African American thought? Although Washington and Du Bois were both born in the same era and were both excellent scholars dedicated to the cause of civil rights for African Americans in the United States

it was their contrasts in background and manner that would have the biggest impact on the future.