Vocab 1
Who wrote news stories that focused on bad news and sin?
Muckrackers
What did Henry Ford's car run on?
Gasoline
Booker T Washington and W.E.B. DuBois had different ideas on how to deal with ________.
segregation
What did college teachers turn to as a source of truth?
Science
The word that describes American life in the early 1900s.
Progress
Who wanted more power returned to the people?
Farmers
Some of the most respected leaders of the 1800s were ________.
pastors
Which people did Progressives want to run the schools?
experts
Who were the authorities on American life who study societies?
Social scientists
Which president pushed many Progressive ideas?
Theodore Roosevelt
Farmers wanted more _____ returned to ordinary people.
power
Who became wealthier than anyone else in the country?
Business leaders
When black and white Americans were separated is was called?
segregation
Who did some Americans think might not practice the skills needed to get good jobs?
The poor
New inventions during the 1900s made life ______.
easier
What did Progressives want employers to buy so that employers would have money to pay hurt workers?
Accident insurance
The customs, beliefs, arts, and institutions of a group of people is called?
Culture
Who made people aware of problems in America?
Journalists
Wilbur and Orville Wright built a ______ that could fly on its own power.
plane
What is the belief that God rules over all and that nothing happens apart from God's plan or permission
providence