Reformers
The "mother of social work."
Jane Addams
Reformers who attempted to solve problems caused by corruption, growth of industry, and laissez-faire.
Progressives
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
19th
A partnership between government and the experts at the University of Wisconsin was called?
Wisconsin Idea
Progressives succeeded in winning ___________________ to aid families of injured workers.
Workers compensation
The term for when approximately 6 million African Americans migrated to the North, Midwest, and West.
The Great Migration
Location on the East Coast where most European immigrants were processed before entering the U.S.?
Ellis Island
Wrote newspaper articles about lynching's that were occurring in the South.
Ida B. Wells
Term for Journalists that were exposing the corruption of big business and government
Muckrakers
Senator from Wisconsin that wanted to use college academics to make Government more efficient.
Robert La Follette
System introduced during this time that was intended to make factories more efficient.
Taylorism
Amendment that ended prohibition.
21st
The period in New York that was considered a golden age in African American culture, in literature, music, stage performance, and art.
Harlem renaissance
Location on the West Coast where most Chinese immigrants were processed before entering the U.S.?
Angel Island
Created Planned Parenthood
Margaret Sanger
Name of Jane Addam's Charity.
Hull House
This act was created after the assassination of James Garfield.
Pendleton Act
Sought to ensure that future appointments would be based on an individual’s merit rather than his political loyalties.
Pendleton Act
Gangs in New York often gathered at these locations to socialize and plan.
Fire Houses
Term for inexpensive housing in low income urban areas that may have multiple families living close together in unsanitary conditions.
Tenements
Term for when established Americans are opposed to new foreign immigrants.
Nativism
Created a system to improve factory efficiency.
Frederick Taylor
Name of the women's organization that led the fight to outlaw alcohol.
Women's Christian Temperance Movement
Primarily female reformers were successful in banning alcohol with this amendment.
18th
This occurrence caused some people to question capitalism.
Panic of 1893
Nearly every state banned child labor by this year.
1918
Terrible fire in New York City that killed 146 sweat shop workers.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Immigrants left Ireland to come to America's Northeastern cities because of what?
The potato Famine in Ireland
Exposed Standard Oil's monopoly and business practices.
Ida Tarbell
Settlement houses and churches served the community and organizations like the YMCA and the _________ _______ took on service roles.
Salvation Army
The Pendleton Act established this Act, which required applicants to pass a civil service exam prior to being considered for any official position.
Secret Service Act
Progressives thought that these kind of principles could make society better.
Scientific
Exposed political corruption in cities like St. Louis.
Lincoln Steffens
The most famous political Machine boss in New York?
Boss Tweed
Term for a factor that makes someone want to leave their home country?
Push Factor
Wrote "How the Other Half Lives."
Jacob Riis
The most famous "Political Machine" in New York was called?
Tammany hall
Act that prohibited Chinese from coming to the U.S. from 1882-1943.
Chinese Exclusion Act
The partnership between government and the experts at the University of Wisconsin was called?
The Wisconsin Idea
Republican Senator that backed the Wisconsin Idea?
Robert La Follette
Neighborhoods that are poor and made up of a certain ethnicity or nationality?
Ethnic ghettos
Term for a type of factor that caused immigrants to want to come to America?
Pull factor