chapter 19 words feb12

City commission plan

A government overseen by appoint officials who ran the city with an eye to economy and efficiency as through running a business design as an alternative to the political machine of the late 19th century

Conservation

The ideology that public land and resources on that land should be managed more efficiently during the early 20th century, as a result of the work of figures such as Theodore Roosevelt

Eugenics

The practice of attempting to solve social problems to the control of human reproduction drawing on the author authority of evolutionary biology, eugenics enjoyed considerable influence in the United States, especially on the issue of corrections and public health from the term of the century through World War II

Hull house

After visiting twin B Hall in London, Jane Adams opened this settlement house in 1889 with the intent of providing a to the perverse population of Chicago near Westside

Muckrakers

Journalist who expose is of social, ill, economic, malfeasance and political corruption help make progressive is un popular

Panama Canal

The waterway constructed between 1903 and 1914 that cuts through Central America and served as the means of connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean

Progressives

The liberal ideology of the late 19th and early 20th century most middle class performers who wanted to use politics government and private initiative to roommate, industrialization diverse America in their own image

Women’s suffrage movement

The right to vote in political elections women advocated for the right to vote for from the mid 19 century and eventually secured the franchise via the amendment 19th amendment in 1920

Jane Addams

Pioneer, American social reformer, passive, and author who found a Chicago whole house in 1889 to 8 immigrants and the poor

Hellen Keller

American author activist and lecture who became death and blind after an illness at 19 months