Period 7 1890-1945 Flashcards
(44 cards)
progressivism
1890s;
progressives advocate gov. intervention, attack laissez-faire capitalism, limit corporate trusts;
interested primarily in urban and industrial America;
(movement whose adherents were united bu the belief that if people joined together and applied human intelligence to the task of improving the nation, progress was inevitable);
reject “survival of the fittest
pragmatism
philosophy that holds truth can be discovered only through experience;
ideas had to be measured by their practical consequences
muckrakers
1890s1900s;
investigative journalists who specialized in exposing corruption, scandal, and vice;
build public support for progressive causes
Hull House
1889; Jane Addams and Ellen Starr;
settlement house;
center of social reform and provided educational and social opportunities for working-class poor and immigrant women and children
civic housekeeping
1890; Hull House; Jane Addams;
women protect their individual households from the chaos of industrialization and urbanization only by attacking the sources of the chaos in the community at large;
women clubs formed, big;
segregation
purposeful separatino of people into ethnic or racial groups
National Association of Colored Women (NACW)
1890s1900s;
organization became the largest federation of black local women’s clubs in 1890s
Muller v. Oregon
1908;
Supreme Court case ruling that upheld an Oregon law establishing a ten-hour workday for women
Shepherd-Towner Act
1921;
allowed nurses to offer maternal and infant health care information to mothers
feminist
someone who believes women should have access to the same opportunities as men
National American Woman Suffrage Association
1890;
national organization contributed to 19th amendment;
Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe
suffragists
supporters of voting rights for women
National Woman’s Party
1923; Alice Paul
Nineteenth Amendment
19191920;
amendment to the Constitution granting women the right to vote
Tuskegee Institute
1881; Booker T. Washington;
A. American educational institute;
teach industrious habits and practical job skills
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
1909; W.E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Jane Addams;
fight for racial equality;
fighting discrimination through courts
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
1874; later, Frances Williard；
organization to campaign to a ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol
Eighteenth Amendment
1918;
amendment banning production and sale of alcoholic beverages;
repealed 1933 with 21st amendment
Mann Act (also White Slave Trade Act)
1910;
banned transportation of women across state lines form immoral purposes
eugenics
pseudoscience of genetic improvement in human population through selictive breeding;
supporters often saw ethnic and racial minorities geneticall “undesirable”
immigration 1890s1900s
1/3 A. foreign-born or atleast one parent from abroad;
immigration station;
low wages;
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
1911; NYC;
infamous industrial fire at Triangle Shirtwaist factory;
inadequate fire safety provisions;
mostly yound women and girls;
caused legislative efforts to improve working conditions in general
conservationism
Progressivve Era;
political and social movement whose supporters worked for preservation of A. wildlife and natural lands
Hetch Hetchy valley
Progressivve Era;
dam and reservoir, national park
