Vocab
attracted readers by presenting “sensational” news stories.
yellow journalism
people who exposed the corruption and issues in society in an effort to achieve reform
muckrakers
movement responsible for the passage of the 18th amendment which banned alcohol sales and consumption
temperance
Believed in an immediate approach to gaining equality for Black people through protest and other active means.
W.E.B. DuBois
a kind of inexpensive variety entertainment show that became popular in the 1870s
vaudeville
the idea that those who accumulated great wealth should share their riches for the betterment of society
Gospel of Wealth
Most settlement houses of the late 1800s offered poor city dwellers
social services
formed the radical National Women's Party and is responsible for getting the 19th amendment
Alice Paul
They helped poorer blacks to get jobs and take care of their families
Urban League
gave voters the power to remove public servants from office before their terms ended
recall
unofficial organization designed to keep a particular party or group in power
political machines
All of the new immigrants were coming from these places
Eastern and southern Europe
Carrie Chapman Catt started this org and used referendum to gain suffrage on state levels (NOT the acronym)
National American Woman Suffrage Association
The speech by Booker T. Washington that called for blacks to get free education and whites to gain full economic power
Atlanta Compromise
The meeting that started the women's suffrage movement before the civil war
Seneca Falls Convention
Their strategy was to use the courts to challenge unfair laws (NOT the acronym)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
used his pictures in How the Other Half Lives to expose the class gap
Jacob Riis
creator of the NACW
Ida B. Wells
created to defend Jews and others against physical and verbal attacks, false statements, and to secure justice
Anti-Defamation League
W.E.B. Du Bois argued that African Americans should educate themselves so they could provide leadership in the fight for civil rights. Those who would do that would be considered this
The Talented Tenth
a form of insurance and group aid for a certain minority group in Arizona
mutualistas
Upton Sinclair's book that exposed industrial hazards
The Jungle
A major thing that Florence Kelley's Women's Trade Union League did that other groups hadn't
started a worker's strike fund
Settlement houses and schools taught immigrants english, history, and how to assimilate into mainstream white culture during this movement
Americanization movement
Muckraker responsible for exposing the corruption of Rockefeller through The History of Standard Oil
Ida Tarbell