Reformers
the founder of Hull House, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes. Founder of the settlement house movement
Jane Adams
African-American journalist who led the fight against lynching
Ida B. Wells
A 19th century reform movement based on the belief that Christians have a responsibility to help improve working conditions and alleviate poverty
The Social Gospel Movement
Women's sufferge
19th Amendment
A procedure by which voters start a petition before voting on a proposed change to the law
Initiative
Who wrote A book published about the dirty conditions factory workers were living in by publishing pictures of their cramped living conditions.
Exposed problems caused by rapid industrialization
Jacob Rii's How the other Half lives
Improved Economic opportunities for African American by providing job (vocational) training. Racism would end gradually once Blacks proved their worth to society.
Booker T. Washington
An organization of farmers who tried to get the government to regulate the railroads and pass other farm friendly policies, and later jointed the populist party
The Grangers
prohibited private corporations from creating "trusts" or monopoly's
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Legislation that began the federal merit system and ended the spoils system
Pendleton Act
Key leader of woman suffrage movement
Susan B. Anthony
What Civil Rights leader created the NAACP?
W.E.B Debois
called on those who accumulated wealth to share their riches for the betterment of society. Written by Andrew Carnagie
Gospel of Wealth
Direct election of senators
17th Amendment
A state method of direct legislation that gives voters a chance to vote on a proposed change to the law
Referendum
Who wrote this quote?
"The meat would be shoveled into carts, and the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one"
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Grandfather Clause, Poll Taxes, and Literacy tests were all examples of...
Jim Crow Laws
What Party Supported This platform
Supported, Free coinage of silver to prevent price drops in farm products, direct election of senators, and national income tax.
The Populist Party
Economic policy by Roosevelt that favored fair relationships between companies and workers
The Square Deal
Halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling. Passed to protect consumers from bad products
The Pure Food and Drug Act
Believed some Trusts were good and some were bad. Believed in conserving natuaral resources and wildlife. Formed the "Bull Moose Party",
Teddy Roosevelt
a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
Movement in society to discourage excessive alcohol consumption. Movement in the U.S. succeeded in the passage of the 18th Amendment establishing Prohibition.
The Temperance Movement
Was created to prevent the Railroads from overcharging farmers
The Interstate Commerce Act
the nation's central banking system. It's a bank for banks.
The Federal Reserve System