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| 303399996 | The progressive era | The Era in the United States where a period of social activism and political reform that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s. One main goal of the Progressive movement was the purification of government, as Progressives tried to eliminate corruption by exposing and undercutting political machines and bosses. Many (but not all) Progressives supported prohibition in order to destroy the political power of local bosses based in saloons. At the same time, women's suffrage was promoted to bring a "purer" female vote into the arena. A second theme was achieving efficiency in every sector by identifying old ways that needed modernizing, and emphasizing scientific, medical and engineering solutions. | |
| 303399997 | Womens Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) | This organization was dedicated to the idea of the 18th Amendment - the Amendment that banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol. | |
| 303399998 | Jane Addams | Social reformer who worked to improve the lives of the working class. In 1889 she founded Hull House in Chicago, the first private social welfare agency in the U.S., to assist the poor, combat juvenile delinquency and help immigrants learn to speak English. | |
| 303399999 | Jane Addams Hull House | the hull house offered instruction in english, counseling to help immigrants living in the house cope with american big-city life, child care services, and cultural activities | |
| 303400000 | General Federation of womens clubs | (1892) The Federation coordinated the activities of women's clubs. The clubs began as a means for women to express themselves.By 1917 there were over 1 million members of the clubs. In the early 1900s, their activities switched from cultural to social issues. The fact that women could not vote made it hard for politicians to dismiss their concerns as partisan. The primary importance of the club movement was it gave women a means to exercise leadership and experience community in ways that male-dominated organizations did not. The clubs helped with societal reforms such as supporting schools, libraries, and settlement houses. They also campaigned for state and federal laws to regulate the conditions of woman and child labor, and persuaded states to pass "mother's pensions" (to help women provide for dependent children when the husband was dead). | |
| 303400001 | Johns Hopkins | Johns Hopkins was a wealthy American entrepreneur, philanthropist and abolitionist of 19th-century Baltimore, Maryland, now most noted for his philanthropic creation of the institutions that bear his name, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and the Johns Hopkins University, in particular the schools of nursing, medicine and public health. | |
| 303400002 | Johns Hopkins university | Founded in Baltimore in 1876 as the first US institution to specialize in advanced graduate studies. Emphasized research and free inquiry. | |
| 303400003 | Anti saloon league | U.S. organization working for prohibition of the sale of alcoholic liquors. Founded in 1893 as the Ohio Anti-Saloon League at Oberlin, Ohio, by representatives of temperance societies and evangelical Protestant churches, it came to wield great political influence. | |
| 303400004 | National association of manufacturers | This national organization formed in 1895 and dealt with standards and regulations of manufacturing | |
| 303400005 | Charles Sheldon | He was an American minister in the Congregational churches and leader of the Social Gospel movement. His novel, In His Steps, introduced the principle of "What Would Jesus Do?" which articulated an approach to Christian theology that became popular at the turn of the 20th Century. | |
| 303400006 | "In his steps" | a best-selling book written by Charles Monroe Sheldon. First published in 1897, the book has sold more than 30,000,000 copies, and ranks as the 9th best-selling book of all time, The full title of the book is "In his steps: What Would Jesus Do?." | |
| 303400007 | Charlotte perkins | wrote woman and economics, condeming the general condition of woman and demanding access the professions and positions in business | |
| 303400008 | Women and economics | Charlotte Perkins Gilman's book urging women to enter the work force and advocating cooperative kitchens and child-care centers | |
| 303400009 | Thorstein Veblen | economist, wrote Theory of the Leisure Class, condemned conspicuous consumerism, where status is displayed and conveyed through consumption. | |
| 303400010 | Theory of the Leisure Class | condemned consumerism, "conspicuous consumption" to describe how the rich flaunted their money | |
| 303400011 | Robert La Follette | progressive who reformed the system so that the people themselves could vote on candidates would be. Made sure people were given jobs based on merit system | |
| 303400012 | American Medical Association | in 1901, when many doctors who considered themselves trained professionals the began forming local associations and societies such as this one, which was organized into a national professional society, including nearly 2/3 of all doctor, they called for strict scientific standards in practicing medicine. | |
| 303400013 | initiative and referendum | The initiative allowed reformers to circumvent state legislatures altogether by submitting new legislation directly to the voters in general elections. The referendum provided a method by which actions of the legislautre could be returned to the electorate for approval. By 1918 more than 20 states had enacted on or both of these reforms | |
| 303675706 | direct primary | Election in which voters choose party nominees. | |
| 303675707 | womens trade union league | founded by female union members and upper class reformers committed to helping female workers by raising money to support strikes march on picket lines and bailed striking women out of jail | |
| 303675708 | ida tarbell | A leading muckraker and magazine editor, she exposed the corruption of the oil industry with her 1904 work A History of Standard Oil. | |
| 303675709 | herbert croly | He wrote the The Promise of American Life (1909) where he called for an activist fed govn't of the kind Hamilton had advocated in the 1790s but one that would serve all citizens, not merely the capitalist class. | |
| 303675710 | NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination, to oppose racism and to gain civil rights for African Americans, got Supreme Court to declare grandfather clause unconstitutional | |
| 303675711 | triangle shirtwaist company | In 1911 the tragic fire killed 146 people, mostly women because the owner kept the stairway doors locked to prevent theft, following stricter building acts and factory codes, and worker insurance | |
| 303675712 | W.e.b dubois | 1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910 | |
| 303675713 | 18th amendment | Prohibition, law against alcohol ratified in 1919 | |
| 303675714 | 19th amendment | woman suffrage, ratified in 1920 | |
| 303675715 | walter lippmann | Known for his concept of agenda setting, editor and columnist in 1920 that urged newspapers to make current records, make a running analysis, and suggest plans | |
| 303675716 | madison grant | Credited with the saving of many different species of animals, founding many different environmental and philanthropic organizations and developing much of the discipline of wildlife managment. | |
| 303675717 | Equal rights amendment | Supported by the National Organization for Women, this amendment would prevent all gender-based discrimination practices. However, it never passed the ratification process. |
