social studies vocab chapter 21 – Flashcards

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Alice Paul
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involved with womens suffrage movement; founded the National Womens party that used parades, demonstrations, picketing, and hunger strikes to draw attention to the suffrage movement
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Booker T Washington
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born into slavery but became educator; encouraged blacks to improve their educational and economical well being. believed this would eventually end discrimination
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bosses
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leaders who ran political machines, frequently traded favors for votes, drew much of their support from immigrants and poor families because of the services they provided including jobs and social services
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Breaker Boys
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Young coal miner workers, between ages 5 to 6 and 8 to 12, who detaches impurities from coal. The work they did were detaching impurities from coal and separate slate, rocks, and other debris from coal by hand.
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Bull moose party
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Another name for the progressive party in 1912 this was formed by former President Theodore Roosevelt's after a split in the Republican Party between himself and President Taft became known as this when Roosevelt bragged that it takes more than that to kill a Bullmoose after being wounded in an assassination attempt in the 1912 campaign
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Capitalism
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Eco system in which private businesses run most industries goods and services created are sold for profit
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Clayton anti trust act
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Signed into law by President Wilson aimed at stopping unfair business practices
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16th amendment
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Allows personal income to be taxed. These income taxes can be used to pay for the governments new programs taxes are based on a person's income
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17th amendment
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1913, allowed Americans to vote directly for US senators prior to the state legislatures elected senators
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18th amendment
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Prohibition, subsequently repealed
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19th amendment
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Granted women's suffrage
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Direct primary
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Ensures that voters select candidates to run for office rather than party bosses
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Fed reserve act
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Under Roosevelt this law created a national banking system to regulate the eco
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Fed trade commision
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Created in 1914 have the power to investigate and punish unfair trade practices that affect commerce
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Hull house
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Cofounded by Jane Addams it was a settlement house for immigrants in the slums of Chicago that provided kindergarten daycare for children when their mothers worked and gave the children one meal a day it was also community center a place where they could receive medical help and learn how to help themselves and America she was influential and helping to set up the first juvenile court in America and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 for her efforts
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Ida B Wells
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Row articles about the unequal education available to black children also drew attention to lynchings more than 3000 blacks were lynched from 1895 to 1915
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Industrial workers of the world
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Formed in 1905 and promotes the concept of one big union for all workers as opposed to smaller unions defined by occupation it welcomed our workers including immigrants women Asian and black
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Initiative
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Allowed voters to propose a new law by collecting signatures on a petition this gave voters direct influence over new laws
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Jacob Riis
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In 1890 he published how the other half lives of books with collections of residence and workers in the New York City tournament buildings his photographs were shock to many wealthier Americans
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Lewis Hines
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was a photographer who took picture of the events that took place with the breaker boys
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Meat inspection act
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Passed by Congress in 1906 and direct response to upton Sinclair's the jungle this law required that meat processing plants be inspected to ensure the use of good meat and health minded procedures federal inspectors would now guarantee safe sanitary meat
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Muckrakers
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Journalists who raked up and exposed muck or filth of society. Wrote about child labor racial discrimination slum housing corruption in business and politics they had a great amount of influence often resulting in the passage of laws designed to reform the abuse that they reported that do use muckrakers called the efforts of early reformers who expose corruption in print Thomas Nast work diligently to expose the abuses of that New York City political machine called Tammany Hall and its leader boss Tweed through the use of political cartoons Jacob Riis exposed the plight of the urban poor and substandard housing in his 1890 book how the other half lives
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National Association of the advancement of colored people (NAACP)
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Organization that called for the economic and educational equality for blacks they attacked discrimination by using the courts
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National American woman suffrage Association (NAWSA)
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Founded by Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to promote the cause of woman suffrage
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Patronage/ spoils system
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In the payne Aldrich tariff is the support encouragement privilege or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another can be a good thing during the renaissance patron supported for artist so that they could pursue their art it can also be bad
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Pendleton service act
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Passed in 1883 and set up a merit system for award and federal jobs under this act more than 10% of government job applicants had to pass and exam for they could be hired government workers will now be hired on qualifications rather political favors or influence
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Political machines
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Powerful organizations that used first legal and illegal methods to get their candidates elected to public office and ensure that they controlled local government example stuffing ballot boxes paying people to vote a certain way bribing vote counters
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Populist party
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Created and supported by farmer so that they could elect candidates that would help them this party call for the government to own railroads telephone and telegraph systems and free silver coinage to gain support of workers they backed an eight hour workday and limits on immigration
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Theodore Roosevelt
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His progressive reforms tried to balance the interests of business consumers and labors call his policy reform the square deal
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Woodrow Wilson
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Help to establish the Federal Reserve the Federal Trade Commission and signed into law the Clayton anti trust act
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Prohibition
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A period of nearly 14 years of US history in which the manufacture sale and transportation of liquor was made illegal It led to the first and only time an amendment to the U.S. Constitution was repealed the 18th amendment
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Progressives
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were working to improve in the late 1800's
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Pure food and drug act
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First federal law regulating food and drugs signed by Theodore Roosevelt this law prohibited the manufacture sale and transfer of mislabeled or contaminated food or drugs
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Recall
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Special vote that would allow a corrupt officials to be removed before the end of his term is enough food or signed a petition requesting this
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Referendum
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permitted voters that would allow or reject a law that had already been proposed or passed by a government body, gave voters a chance to override laws that they opposed
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Robert M Lafollette
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Major reform governor who decreased the power of political machines and used experts to write new laws and work with agencies to improve his states government
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Secret ballot voting
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Privacy at the ballot box ensures that citizens can cast votes without party bosses knowing how they voted
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Socialist party
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Eco System in which the government owns and operates a countries means of production
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Socialism
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Gov in which the people collectively own and democratically operate the industries and social services through an economic democracy it is supposed to put more power and money in the hands of the people by giving them more control
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Square deal
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Roosevelt progressive reform plan he believed that the interests of business people labors and consumers should be balanced for the public good
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Suffrage
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Voting rights
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Susan blow
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Opened the first American public kindergarten in 1873 by 1898 more than 4000 kindergartens had opened
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Tammany hall
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One of New York's most notorious political machines give 12,000 jobs and estimated that bosses may have stolen up to 200 million from the city
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Temporance
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Avoidance of alcohol
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The initiative
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Process allows citizens to propose or initiate a statute or constitutional amendment citizens initiating such legislation are known as the measures proponents could put issues on the ballot for voting
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The recall
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Granted voters the right to remove an elected official
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triangle shirt waist fire
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Company in New York unemployed mostly Jewish and Italian teenage immigrant women a fire started on the eighth floor of the factory workers could not escape as the employer should lock the exit doors supposedly to reduce theft of materials 146 workers that many women jump to their deaths or were burnt beyond recognition the owners were indicted for manslaughter this tragedy lead to new laws improving factory safety standards
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Upton Sinclair
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Author of the jungle brought national attention to the filth and dangerous conditions in the meatpacking industry
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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College graduate and earned a doctorate from Harvard believe that black should protest on the unjust treatment and demand equal rights helped found the NAACP
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Workers compensation laws
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Guaranteed a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job
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William "big bill" Haywood
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Founding member of the industrial workers of the world IWW) and a member of the executive committee of the Socialist party of America involved in many important labor battles on behalf of the worker
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To get their candidates elected to public office and control local government
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What was the main goal of political machines during the gilded age
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Provided jobs and services such as a fire brigade
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Why do you think some immigrants supported political machines
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Yes because the workers had to take a test to see if they were qualified for the job
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Do you think the system of testing created by the Pendleton civil service act would work to reduce corruption in the spoil system wire why not
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They influence voters causing them to put pressure on politicians politicians then had to support reforms
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What effect did muckrakers have on reform
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They passed all the all children had to go to school and pushed for schools in poor neighborhoods and had kindergarten
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How did Progressives try to improve education
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I think clean drinking water because it stopped deaths because of unsanitary water water is necessary to live and if you get a disease from it you might not live
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Which progressive reform do you think was the most important why
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17th amendment, recall initiatives referendums secret ballots and direct primaries
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What new ideas and practices were introduced to give voters more power
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Progressives wanted to get rid of political machines by creating a secret ballot and putting all the candidates names on that bout also the Wisconsin plan made voters able to see how political candidates voted they had the recall vote that allowed bad politicians to be removed from office to political machines like controlling the local government and progressives Limited that
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How did progressive reforms limit the power of political machines
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Sold newspaper shined shoes cooked cleaned sewed worked in factories mines and mills
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What job did child laborers often hold
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They can make children work long hours for very low wages because there's nothing that the children could do
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Why did businesses employ children in factories
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Accidents were common in the factories and is very dangerous for everyone especially on children people saw pictures and read stories of the bad conditions
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Why do you think reformers began to demand improvements to child labor conditions
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The triangle shirt waist fire and other workplace accidents pictures and the work of Florence Kelly and Jacob Riis
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What events led to the movement to improve workplace safety
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They had aggressive tactics for staging strikes
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Why did the industrial workers of the world frighten some people
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Capitalism is an economic system ruled by government socialism is a system where goods are owned by the state or public and ruled by the community, conflicts would probably arise because capitalism is every man for himself and socialism is for the good of the community
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What conflicts might arise between supporters of capitalism and socialism
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They achieved banning alcoholic beverages being producted and transported throughout the US and women suffrage
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What did the 18th and 19th amendments accomplish
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Her and the organization she founded, the national women's party, used parades, public demonstrations, picketing, and hunger strikes to draw attention to suffrage for women
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How did Alice Paul and the national women's party try to draw attention to the issue of women's suffrage
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She wrote articles about unequal edu available to black children
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What role did Ida b wells play in reforms efforts for blacks?
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He didn't fight discrimination directly, but he encouraged edu and Eco improvements for blacks
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How did booker t Washington differ from black leaders
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Yes because it won in court which made discrimination somewhat better. They made grandfather clauses illegal
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Do you think the national assossciation go the advancement of colored ppl was successful in fighting discrimination
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Ppl were leading anti Chinese riots when there were a lot of them coming to the us
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What discrimination did Chinese ppl face
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They were overlooked by the progressive movement because non European groups were often overlooked
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How are some minority groups overlooked by the progressive movement
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