U.S History Chapter 9 Keyterms – Flashcards
Unlock all answers in this set
Unlock answersquestion
Progressivism
answer
reform movement
question
Consensus
answer
broad agreement on how to improve american society now seemed possible
question
Muckraker
answer
journalists who exposed corruption in businesses and politics
question
Wisconsin Idea
answer
passed the 1st state income tax and corporate tax, and also set up a railroad commission
question
Upton Sinclair
answer
muckraker who wrote " the jungle "
question
Lincoln Steffens
answer
condemned the mismanagement of city governments
question
Ida Tarbell
answer
editor, historian, muckraker, and also the daughter of a Pennsylvania oil driller
question
Frances Perkins
answer
pioneer in the male-oriented world of politics and also the daughter of a factory owner.
question
Robert M. La Follette
answer
governor of Wisconsin , who can up with the " Wisconsin idea "
question
city commission
answer
a board of perhaps five citizens elected by voters to run the city
question
city manager
answer
this person was hired by the city commission or city council to run the city
question
initative
answer
gave voters the power to propose a bill and present it to the legislature for a vote
question
referendum
answer
public voted on a bill offered by the legislature
question
recall
answer
allowed voters to remove a public official from office before the next scheduled election
question
primary system
answer
gave party members the chance to choose their party's candidates for office
question
yellow dog contract
answer
stated that workers did not belong to a Union and promised not to join one
question
Louis D. Brandeis
answer
famous Boston lawyer (Muller vs. Oregon)
question
suffrage
answer
voting rights
question
progressive tax
answer
one that assigns higher tax rates to people with higher incomes
question
prohibition
answer
banning the manufacturing and sale of alcoholic beverages
question
Equal Rights Amendment
answer
"equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged (reduced) by the United States nor by any State on account of sex."
question
Carrie Chapman Catt
answer
president of NAWSA, who led the campaign for woman suffrage during Wilson's administration
question
Carrie Nation
answer
"the kansas cyclone" she launched a violent one woman crusade against alcohol
question
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
answer
A pioneer in the women's suffrage movement, she helped organize the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. She later helped edit the militant feminist magazine Revolution from 1868 - 1870.
question
Susan B. Anthony
answer
Leader of woman suffrage movement, who helped to define the movement's goals and beliefs and to lead its actions
question
Lucy Stone
answer
American suffragist who founded the American Women Suffrage Association.
question
Alice Paul
answer
head of the National Woman's party that campaigned for an equal rights amendment to the Constitution. She opposed legislation protecting women workers because such laws implied women's inferiority. Most condemned her way of thinking.
