Chapter 21 Flashcards
The term ______ was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt.
“muckraker”
an American illustrated monthly periodical popular at the turn of the 20th century. The magazine is credited with having started the tradition of muckraking journalism
McClure’s Magazine
“__________” is a book written by American author Lincoln Steffens. Published in 1904, it is a collection of articles which Steffens had written for McClure’s Magazine. It reports on the workings of corrupt political machines in several major U.S. cities, along with a few efforts to combat them.
The Shame of the Cities
an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer and lecturer. She was one of the leading “muckrakers” of the progressive era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and pioneered investigative journalism.
exposed Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller abusive tactics.
Ida Tarbell
an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. _____’s work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. Wrote “The Jungle”
Upton Sinclair
began in Britain in 1884 when middle-class London reformers established Toynbee Hall, the first ______, in East London to provide social services and education to the poor workers who lived there.
Settlement House Movement
known as the “mother” of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, public administrator, protester, author, and leader in women’s suffrage and world peace.
“Hull house”
Jane Addams
In 1848, a group of abolitionist activists—mostly women, but some men—gathered in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss the problem of women’s rights. They were invited there by the reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Votes for Women
Woman’s Suffrage Movement
an American educator, temperance reformer, and women’s suffragist. She became the national president of Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in 1879, and remained president until her death in 1898.
Frances Willard
an active international temperance organization that was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that “linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.)
an American woman who was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition. She is particularly noteworthy for attacking alcohol-serving establishments with a hatchet.
Carrie Nation
in New York City on March 25, 1911 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history.
Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
the transfer of income and of wealth (including physical property) from some individuals to others by means of a social mechanism such as taxation, charity, welfare, public services, land reform, monetary policies, confiscation, divorce or tort law.
Income Tax
Progressive Amendments
16th - Income Tax
17th - Direct election of Senators
18th - No Alcohol for sale
19th - Votes for Women
Progressive Presidents
Theodore Roosevelt (Republican/Bullmoose) -Trust Buster, supporter of Coal Strike William Howard Taft (Republican) - Hand picked by TR, but later challenged by TR Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) - Continued Progressive ideas but challenged some
