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Movement that responded to the pressures of industrialization and urbanization by promoting reforms.
Progressivism
The right to vote.
Suffrage
Belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more loyal citizens.
Americanization
Law that allowed federal inspection of food and medicine and banned the interstate shipment and sale of impure food and the mislabeling of food and drugs
Pure Food and Drug Act
Political, military, and economic domination of strong nations over weaker territories.
Imperialism
Writer who uncovers and exposes misconduct in politics or business.
Muckraker
Aimed at stopping alcohol abuse and the problems created by it.
Temperance Movement
Interracial organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination and to achieve political and civil rights for African Americans.
Still active today
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Gave the federal government the power to decide where and how water would be distributed.
National Reclamation Act
Newspapers that used sensational headlines and exaggerated stories in order to promote readership.
Yellow Press/Journalism
Reform movement that emerged in the late nineteenth century that sought to improve society by applying Christian principles.
Social Gospel
Process in which citizens put a proposed new law directly on the ballot.
Group of African American thinkers founded in 1905 that pushed for immediate racial reforms around education and voting practices.
W.E.B. du Bois
Niagara Movement
1906 law that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission the authority to set maximum shipping rates for railroads and for ferries, toll bridges, and oil pipelines.
Hepburn Act
The belief held by some in the late 19th century that certain nations and races were superior to others and therefore destined to rule over them.
Social Darwinism
Community center organized at the turn of the twentieth century to provide social services to the urban poor.
Settlement house
Process that allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by a legislature.
Referendum
An African American activist dedicated to promoting educational and economic advancement for blacks as a road to racial equality. Advocated for learning practical working skills.
Booker T. Washington
What political party emerged from the Taft-Roosevelt battle that split the Republican Party in 1912.
Progressive Party
Bull Moose Party
Economy in a colony where the colonizing country removed raw materials and shipped them back home to benefit its own economy.
Extractive Economy
Election in which citizens themselves vote to select nominees for upcoming elections.
Direct Primary
Founded in 1890 that worked on both the state and national levels to gain women the right to vote.
Can give the acronym.
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Network churches and clubs that set up employment agencies and relief efforts to help African Americans get settled and find work in the cities.
Urban League
Aggressive nationalism; support for warlike foreign policy.
Jingoism