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Define: Upton Sinclair’s book about the poor working & unsanitary conditions of the meat industry
Significance: it led to the Meat Inspection Act |
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Define: business that take mineral resources from the earth (e.g. oil, iron & coal)
Significance: it created jobs but also damaged the environment |
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Define: New York city’s political machine
Significance: it helped the poor, including immigrants, but it was also undemocratic & corrupt |
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Define: it set guidelines for hiring civil servants (government employees)
Significance: it tried to get rid of patronage (giving jobs to friends & political supporters) |
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Define: mov’t to ban alcohol
Significance: progressives argued that it would help elevate the poor & improve their lives |
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Define: a settlement house to help immigrants & the urban poor
Significance: it offered childcare, classes, health services, etc. |
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Define: the idea that Christians should reform society, not just themselves
Significance: it challenged social Darwinism & put morality above profit |
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| National Child Labor Committee |
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Define: it convinced 39 states to ban child labor
Significance: it increased school attendance & school construction |
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| National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) |
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Define: if fought for women suffrage (the right to vote)
Significance: it pushed states to allow females to vote |
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Define: Booker T. Washington’s vocational college for blacks
Significance: he argued that blacks could gain respect by getting a skill & working their way up |
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| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) |
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Define: focused on political rights for blacks (e.g. voting)
Significance: used a more confrontational strategy to gain respect for blacks |
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