Vocab Words
Define Settlement House
What is a community center that provided social services to the urban poor?
Jane Adams contributions to the settlement house movement
What is made social and economic contributions to the lives of the people by educating poor children and adults?
Ms. Lizano's Favorite Food
Wings
Define Muckraker
What is a journalist or other person who searches for and exposes corruption, scandal, or other wrongdoing?
What Ida Tarbell exposed.
What is John D. Rockefeller and his oil industry corruption.
Define Direct Primary
What is an election in which citizens themselves vote to select nominees for upcoming elections?
Theodore Roosevelts Influential Policy During the Progressive Era
How many pets does Ms. Lizano have?
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19th Amendment
What is granted women the right to vote?
Define Referendum
Allowed citizens to approve or reject laws passed by a legislative.
Define Temperance
What is the practice of never drinking alcohol?
What did Upton Sinclair Expose
What is the Meat Packing Industry?
What was the the goal of the Progressive era?
What is to improve the lives of all Americans by addressing social and political problems?
17th Amendment
What is the The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote.
Define Recall
Gave voters the power to remove public servants from office before their terms ended.
Define NAACP
What is a Political organizations that aimed to help African Americans free them physically, mentally, politically, and logically?
What did Jacob Riis take photos of
What are Tenements?
What was the plot of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and why did it have such a big impact on public opinion?
The Jungle depicted the wretched and unsanitary conditions at a meatpacking plant. He intended to portray the life of an immigrant in the U.S. but readers were more concerned with the large portion of the book pertaining to the corruption of the American meatpacking industry. Many middle class women read the book and were outraged not so much because they cared about the workers but because the public now knew about the disgusting things they were eating.
Define Suffrage
What is the right to vote in political elections.
Carrie Chatman Catt was a leader in which movement?
What is the NAWSA or Suffrage movement?
Define Plessy V. Ferguson
What is Separate but Equal?
What were Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Dubois fighting for?
What is civil rights?
Purpose of the Pure Food and Drug Act
What is it protected the public's health by prohibiting the sale of adulterated, misbranded, or harmful food, drugs, and beverages?
Meat Inspection Act
What is US law that ensures the safety and wholesomeness of meat products sold for consumption?
Differences in Booker T. Washington's beliefs and W.E.B. Du Bois
Booker T. Washington believed that African Americans should focus on becoming economically successful and working with white people to improve their lives. W.E.B. Du Bois wanted to fight for equal rights and end racial discrimination.