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APUSH Chapter 21 Vocabulary
APUSH Chapter 21 Vocabulary
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10th Grade
02/08/2011

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Jane Addams/Hull House
Definition
Founder of Hull house which was buildings that housed European Immigrants. First woman recipient of Nobel Peavce Prize
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Walter Rauschenbusch
Definition
key figure in American Social Gospel movement
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Florence Kelley/National Consumer’s League
Definition
priminent figure in NCL and protested for minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, food safety and children's rights
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John Dewey
Definition
American psychologist that advocated for progressive reform and schooling
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Frederick Taylor
Definition
Mechanical engineer and leader of Efficency Movement during progressivism
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Robert M. La Follette
Definition
American progressive politician from Wisconsin that was later nominated for president by progressive party
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Upton Sinclair/The Jungle
Definition
Journal written by Sinclair that exposed the reality of working class and corruption of meatpacking industry
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Gifford Pinchot
Definition
first Chief of the United States Forest Service, Governer of Pennsylvania, progressive politician
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John Muir
Definition
American naturalist that advocated preservation of wilderness in the west
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William Howard Taft
Definition
Progressive president following Roosevelt. Roosevelt didnt like his term
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Woodrow Wilson
Definition
Progressive president following Taft that passed Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Federal Farm Loan Act and America's first-ever federal progressive income tax Revenue Act of 1913
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Margaret Sanger
Definition
American sex educator, birth control activist and the founder of the American Birth Control League.
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Alice Paul
Definition
American suffrage activist that led Women's suffrage
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Carrie Chapman Catt
Definition
women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment, founded League of Women Voters, and International Alliance of Women
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Booker T. Washington
Definition
African-American educator, author, orator, and political leader that spoke out against Jim Crowe Segregation an advocated black rights
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W.E.B. Du Bois
Definition
African-American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor that attempted to solve all problems of 20th Century United States
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Social gospel
Definition
movement that applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially social justice, inequality, liquor, crime, racial tensions, slums, bad hygiene, child labor, weak labor unions, poor schools, and the danger of war
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Social purity movement
Definition
social movement that sought to abolish prostitution and other sexual activities then considered immoral
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Women’s Trade Union League
Definition
U.S women's organization that supported the efforts of women to organize labor unions and to eliminate sweatshop conditions.
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Triangle fire
Definition
deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York, causing deaths of 146 garment workers
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Muller v. Oregon
Definition
Supreme Court decision that justifies both sex discrimination and usage of labor laws during the time period
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Pragmatism
Definition
idea that meaning of a proposition is to be found in the practical consequences of accepting it, and that impractical ideas are to be rejected
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Scientific management
Definition
theory of management that analyzed and synthesized workflows. Its main objective was improving economic efficiency, especially labor productivity
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Square Deal
Definition
Plan created by roosevelt aimed at helping middle class citizens and involved attacking the plutocracy and bad trusts while at the same time protecting business from the extreme demands of organized labor
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Definition
purpose was to regulate railroads (and later trucking) to ensure fair rates, to eliminate rate discrimination, and to regulate other aspects of common carriers. created by Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
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Hepburn Act
Definition
1906 United States federal law that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum railroad rates
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Pure Food and Drug Act
Definition
1906 is a United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines
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Hetch Hetchy controversy
Definition
fight of progressivists against corporations to preserve Hetch Hetchy Dam as a nationaly wilderness park
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Newlands Reclamation Act
Definition
United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West
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Panama Canal
Definition
canal in carribean built during roosevelt's term that opened U.S commerce into Asia and most of Western Hemisphere
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Roosevelt Corollary
Definition
right of the United States to intervene to "stabilize" the economic affairs of small states in the Caribbean and Central America if they were unable to pay their international debts
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Dollar diplomacy
Definition
further aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries.
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Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
Definition
political party created by progressivists fro the election of 1912 and caused split of republican party.
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New Nationalism
Definition
Roosevelt's campaign slogan for election of 1912. central issue argued government protection of human welfare and property rights
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New Freedom
Definition
Wilson's campaign slogan for election of 1912. They called for less government but in practice as president he added new controls such as the Federal Reserve System and the Clayton Antitrust Act
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Federal Reserve Act
Definition
created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, and granted it the legal authority to issue legal tender
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Clayton Antitrust Act
Definition
specified particular prohibited conduct, the three-level enforcement scheme, the exemptions, and the remedial measures
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Federal Trade Commission
Definition
Comission that promoted consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of what regulators perceive to be harmfully anti-competitive business practices, such as coercive monopoly
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Socialist Party
Definition
political party created by socialists of America that band together to fight ow wages, currency/credit corruption, and child labor. Started by Farmers.
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IWW
Definition
International labor union badn together to fight low wages, corruption, and labor laws
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Atlanta Compromise
Definition
Speech given by Booker T Washington in Atlanta promoting education for blacks which allows
economic security, was more valuable than social equality or political office
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Plessy v. Ferguson
Definition
U.S Supremem court justified state laws requiring racial segregation in private businesses (particularly railroads), under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
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Atlanta race riot
Definition
rising tension between whites and blacks as a result of competition for jobs, black desire for civil rights, Reconstruction, and the gubernatorial election of 1906 caused a riot in which 40 blacks were killed
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP
Definition
Civil rights organization created to promote evolution of blacks in America
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