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us history ch 3
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- 1MuckrakersCrusading journalists who sought to direct public attention to social, economic, and political injustices. They were key in spurring the progressive movement
- 2Social GospelReligious based impulse to elevate the life of society’s most vulnerable, especially the poor in the cities
- 3Jane AddamsEstablished Hull House in 1889 in Chicago. Became model for hundreds of similar facilities, housed by professional middle class people sought to help immigrants adjust to American life
- 4Charlotte Perkins GilmanFeminist writer who in 1890s published Women and Economics, a book that argued the traditional definition of gender roles were exploitative and obsolete.
- 5Commission Plan and City-Manager PlanCP: mayor and council replaced by an elected nonpartisan commission. CMP: An approach to municipal reform where city officials hired a professional trained business manager or engineer to take control of city government. Designed by progressives to take control from urban bosses.
- 6Initiative and ReferendumProcess where new legislation would be voted on directly by popular vote, not state legislature. Referendum was where the actions of the legislators could be returned to the voters for approval. Designed by progressives to take power away from corrupt state legislators.
- 7Direct Primary and RecallDP: Voters decide on party candidates, not party bosses. Recall: the voters have the right to remove a public official from office in a special election. Designed by progressives to take power away from corrupt party leaders
- 8Robert LafolletteMost celebrated state level progressive reformer ,turned his state of Wisconsin into a laboratory of progressivism.
- 9Triangle Shirtwaist Fire1911 NYC factory fire that killed 146 women. Led to public pressure for reform of labor conditions.
- 10NAACPOrganization to promote black civil rights, mostly through lawsuits in federal courts.
- 11WCTUWomen’s Christian Temperance Union. Wanted legal abolition of the saloons and later called for full probation of alcohol. Culminated in the 18th Amendment in 1920.
- 12EugenicsScience of altering animals and plants, but also used to grade ethnic groups and races according to their genetic qualities.
- 13Hetch HetchyArea in Yosemite National Park where a dam was built to provide water to San Francisco. Environmentalists were furious.
- 14New NationalismTheodore Roosevelt’s political program in 1912 as he tried to regain the presidency in the Progressive Party. Showed how he moved away from his old conservatism as president. Social justice was only possible through strong government regulation. Human welfare was more important than property rights and profits.
- 15New FreedomPolitical program of Woodrow Wilson in 1912, running for president. Believed that bigness was both unjust and inefficient. Proper way to respond to monopoly was not to regulate it, but to destroy it.
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