Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
34 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Progressivism
|
A spirit of reform that arose in the late 1800s
|
|
|
McClure's magazine
|
National magazine founded in
|
|
|
Muckrakers
|
Term for investigative journalists
|
|
|
Lincoln Steffens
|
Well known muckraker who signaled the beginning of that style of journalism
|
|
|
Ida Tarbell
|
Journalist who disliked being called a muckraker
|
|
|
Ray stannard baker
|
Writer who toured America to see the plight of African Americans in order to right his book
|
|
|
Theodore Dreiser
|
Wrote sister carrie and the financier
|
|
|
Edith Wharton
|
Wrote "the house of mirth"
|
|
|
Herbert Croly
|
Political theorist
|
|
|
Florence Kelly
|
Worked towards the cause of child labor laws
|
|
|
Triangle shirtwaist fire
|
Factory fire that killed 140 workers
|
|
|
Rose schneiderman
|
Women's trade league organizer
|
|
|
Freedom of contract
|
The freedom to negotiate your terms of employment
|
|
|
Muller v Oregon
|
Case where an employer challenged the 10 hour workday law
|
|
|
Louis D. Brandeis
|
Lawyer who argued for Kelley in muller v Oregon
|
|
|
Closed shop
|
Workplace where all workers belong to a union
|
|
|
Socialism
|
System where the government owns most of the infrastructure
|
|
|
Samuel Gompers
|
Helped found the AFL
|
|
|
International ladies garment workers union
|
Women's union that sought to unionize workers
|
|
|
Open shop
|
Non union workplace
|
|
|
Industrial workers of the world
|
Union that opposed capitalism
|
|
|
William Haywood
|
Leader of the IWW
|
|
|
Lawrence veiler
|
Settlement house worker who went after irresponsible tenement owners
|
|
|
Daniel burnham
|
Architect and city planner
|
|
|
Prohibition.
|
A complete ban on alcohol
|
|
|
Women's temperance union
|
Group pushing for prohibition
|
|
|
Billy Sunday
|
Presbyterian evangelist
|
|
|
Frances Willard
|
Headed the WCTU
|
|
|
Eighteenth amendment
|
Banned alcohol
|
|
|
W.E.B du bois
|
Influential African American leader
|
|
|
National association for the advancement of colored people
|
Organization against racial discrimination
|
|
|
National urban league
|
Fought for racial equality
|
|
|
Society of American Indians
|
Group for furthering Indian rights
|
|
|
Americanization
|
Process for preparing immigrants for citizenship
|
