Chapter 19 - "Civilization's Inferno": The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880-1917

Question 1

Scott Joplin

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popular master of ragtime music

Question 2

Tom Johnson

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progressive who reformed ownership of public utilities in Chicago

Question 3

Jacob Riis

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famous “muckraking” journalist

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Jane Addams

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founder of Hull House, a social settlement

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Margaret Sanger

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New York City nurse who advocated for birth control

Question 6

Upton Sinclair

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author of The Jungle, which exposed extreme forms of labor in America

Question 7

Florence Kelley

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resident of Hull House who was a social and political reformer

Question 8

Home Insurance Building

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the first skyscraper; located in Chicago

Question 9

Chicago school

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a school of architecture dedicated to the design of buildings whose form expressed their structure and function

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mutual aid societies

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urban aid society that served members of an ethnic immigrant group

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race riot

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attacks by white mobs against blacks that were triggered by street altercations or rumors of crime

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tenements

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buildings that housed twenty or more families in small, airless apartments

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vaudeville theater

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professional stage show popular in the 1880s and 1890s that included singing, dancing, and comedy routines; popular among families

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ragtime

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popular form of music in the early 1900s among all classes and races

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blues

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a type of music that spoke of hard work and heartbreak

Question 16

yellow journalism

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a derogatory term for mass-market newspapers

Question 17

muckrakers

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a term for investigative journalists who published exposes of political scandals and industrial abuses

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political machines

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local party bureaucracies that kept an unshakable grip on elected and appointed public offices

Question 19

National Municipal League

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political reform organization that advised cities to elect small councils and hire professional city managers

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progressivism

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overlapping set of movements to combat the ills of industrialization

Question 21

“City Beautiful” movement

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early 1900s movement to advocate more and better urban park spaces

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Mann Act (1910)

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prohibited transportation of prostitutes across state lines

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social settlement

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community welfare center that focused on helping the poor

Question 24

Hull House

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Chicago social settlement founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr

Question 25

Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)

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created Food and Drug Administration

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National Consumers’ League

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progressive organization that advocated for worker protection laws

Question 27

Women’s Trade Union League

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organized unions among garment workers and advocated for women’s rights

Question 28

Triangle Shirtwaist Company

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location of a deadly industrial fire that killed 146, many immigrant women

Question 29

Frances Perkins

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first female to hold a cabinet post (Secretary of Labor)