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26 Cards in this Set
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Chicago school |
- dedicated to design of buildings whose form expressed their structure and function - genius of school was architect Louis Sullivan |
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Mutual aid societies |
- composed of people from a particular province or town - collected dues from members - paid support in case of death or disability on the job - functioned as fraternal clubs |
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Race riot |
- danger faced by blacks - attack by white mobs that was triggered by street altercations or rumors of crime |
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Tenements |
- buildings that housed twenty or more families in cramped, airless apartments - fostered rampant disease and horrific infant mortality - made in place of urban houses that were ripped down |
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Vaudeville theatre |
- enticing attraction - continuous sequence of musical acts, skits, magic shows, and other entertainment - first popular among upper class |
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Ragtime |
- black performers - named for its ragged rhythm - combined a steady beat in the bass - off beat rhythms in the treble - became popular around audiences of all classes and races
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Blues |
- music drawn from cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta - spoke of hard work and heart break - spoke to the emotional lives of young urbanites who were far from home |
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Yellow Journalism |
- arrival of Sunday color comics -derogatory term for mass market newspapers |
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Muckrakers |
- focused too much on negative side of American life - writers, urban journalists who promoted reform - named by Theodore Roosevelt - inspired thousands of readers to get Involved in reforms |
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Political machines |
- local party bureaucracies that kept a grip on public office elections |
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National Municipal League |
- advised cities to elect small councils and hire professional city managers |
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Progressivism |
- an overlapping set of movements to combat the ills of industrialization |
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"City Beautiful" movement |
- arose to advocate more and better urban park spaces |
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Social settlement |
- built by urban reformers - community welfare centers - investigated the plight of the urban poor, raised funds to address urgent needs, and helped neighborhood residents advocate on their own behalf |
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Hull House |
- most famous social settlement - Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr - dilapidated mansion - spark plug for community improvement and political reform
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Pure Food and Drug Act |
- passed by Congress - created federal Food and Drug Administration - due to The Jungle, described appalling conditions of meat packing plants |
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National Consumers' League |
- Florence Kelley - one of the most powerful progressive organizations advocating worker protection laws - encouraged shoppers to patronize only stores where wages and working conditions were known to be fair |
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Women's Trade Union League |
- founded in New York - financed by wealthy women who supported its work -rained working class leaders who organized unions among garment workers |
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Triangle Shirtwaist |
- fire broke out - workers discovered that employers locked the emergency exit doors to prevent theft - many people, mainly immigrant women, died |
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Scott Joplin |
- master of ragtime music - composer - son of former slaves - grew up along Texas/Arkansas boarder - took piano lessons as a young boy |
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Tom Johnson |
- nominated by Democrats - mayor - reform minded businessman - advocated municipal ownership of utilities and a tax system in which "monopoly and privilege" bore the main burdens - victory transformed Democrats into the leading reform party - one of nations most famous and innovative reformers |
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Jacob Riis |
- Danish born journalist - included photographs of tenement interiors - How the Other Half Lives - had influence on Theodore Roosevelt; led him on tours around tenements |
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Jane Addams |
- created Hull House - daughter of middle class |
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Margaret Sanger |
- nurse who loves to NYC - volunteered with a Lower East Side settlement - launched a crusade for birth control |
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Upton Sinclair |
- journalist - exposed extreme forms of labor exploitation - The Jungle |
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Florence Kelley |
- Hull House worker - former chief factory inspector of Illinois - believed only government oversight could protect exploited workers - led NCL |
