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| 695706105 | Muckrakers | This term applies to newspaper reporters and other writers who pointed out the social problems of the era of big business. The term was first given to them by Theodore Roosevelt. | |
| 695706106 | The "Social Gospel" | A movement regarding poverty using Christian principles (education, no child labor, proactive organizations) | |
| 695706107 | The Salvation Army | began in England, was a Christian social welfare organization with a vaguely military structure, by 1900 it had recruited 3,000 officers and 20,000 privates, and was offering both material and spiritual aid to urban poor. | |
| 695706108 | Hull House | Settlement home designed as a welfare agency for needy families. It provided social and educational opportunities for working class people in the neighborhood as well as improving some of the conditions caused by poverty. | |
| 695706109 | Jane Addams | the founder of Hull House, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes | |
| 695706110 | Thorstein Veblen | economist, wrote Theory of the Leisure Class, condemned conspicuous consumerism, where status is displayed and conveyed through consumption. | |
| 695706111 | A Theory of the Leisure Class | a book, first published in 1899, by the Norwegian-American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen. considered one of the first detailed critiques of consumerism. Veblen argues that economic life is driven not by notions of utility, but by social vestiges from pre-historic times. Drawing examples from the contemporary period and anthropology, he held that much of today's society is a variation on early tribal life. | |
| 695706112 | Taylorism | scientific management, encouraged the development of mass production techniques and the assembly line, led to a revolution in American education of social science. | |
| 695706113 | 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. | |
| 695706114 | National Association of Manufactures | Group along with the American Liberty League, the Chamber of Commerce, and the National Industrial Conference Board aggressively opposed New Deal Programs. Membership of this group increased from 1469 to 3008, it opposed 31 out of 37 major legislative proposals from 1933-41. Sought to influence policy through the Special Conference Committee which influenced the NRA's Advisory Board. Abreviated (NAM) | |
| 695706115 | US Chamber of Commerce | This national organization formed in 1912 and dealt with standards and regulations for trade. | |
| 695706116 | "Boston marriages" | Boston Marriages refers to the relationship between women who lived together, often in long-term, sometimes romantic, relationships. | |
| 695706117 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | A member of the women's right's movement in 1840. She was a mother of seven, and she shocked other feminists by advocating suffrage for women at the first Women's Right's Convention in Seneca, New York 1848. Stanton read a "Declaration of Sentiments" which declared "all men and women are created equal." | |
| 695706118 | Carrie Chapman Catt | Spoke powerfully in favor of suffrage, worked as a school principal and a reporter ., became head of the National American Woman Suffrage, an inspiried speaker and abrilliant organizer. Devised a detailed battle plan for fighting the war of suffrage. | |
| 695706119 | National American Woman Suffrage Association | militant suffragist organization founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony | |
| 695706120 | Nineteenth Amendment | the constitutional amendment adopted in 1920 that guarantees women the right to vote. | |
| 695706121 | Alice Paul | 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. | |
| 695706122 | National Woman's Party | A group of militant suffragists who took to the streets with mass pickets, parades, and hunger strikes to convince the govt to give them the right to vote. Led by Alice Paul. | |
| 695706123 | Initiative | the first of a series of actions | |
| 695706124 | Referendum | The name given to the political process in which the general public votes on an issue of public concern. | |
| 695706125 | Direct primary | a primary where voters directly select the candidates who will run for office | |
| 695706126 | Recall | the act of removing an official by petition | |
| 695706127 | Robert La Follette | Progressive Wisconsin governor who attacked machine politics and pressured the state legislature to require each party to hold a direct primary | |
| 695706128 | Union Labor Party | formed by the workers in Building Trades Council, committed to a program of reform almost indistinguishable of the progressives in the city, helped pass a child labor law, workmen's compensation law, and a limitation on working hours for women, in California. | |
| 695706129 | Tammany Hall | a political organization within the Democratic Party in New York city (late 1800's and early 1900's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism | |
| 695706130 | Triangle Shirtwaist Fire | a fire in New York's Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1911 killed 146 people, mostly women. They died because the doors were locked and the windows were too high for them to get to the ground. Dramatized the poor working conditions and let to federal regulations to protect workers. | |
| 695706131 | Alfred Smith | He was the Democratic presidential candidate in the 1928 election. He was the first Catholic to be elected as a candidate., Former governor of New York who ran for President against Herbert Hoover. He was against Prohibition. | |
| 695706132 | W.E.B. Du Bois | fought for African American rights. Helped to found Niagra Movement in 1905 to fight for and establish equal rights. This movement later led to the establishment of the NAACP | |
| 695706133 | National Association for the Advancement of Colored Persons | The Niagara movement joined with white progressives sympathetic to their cause to form this association. It fought for equal rights. | |
| 695706134 | Women's Christian Temperance Union | This organization was dedicated to the idea of the 18th Amendment - the Amendment that banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol. | |
| 695706135 | Eighteenth Amendment | an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920 | |
| 695706136 | Eugene Debs | Leader of the American Railway Union, he voted to aid workers in the Pullman strike. He was jailed for six months for disobeying a court order after the strike was over. |
