A | B |
16th Amendment | Creation of the Income Tax |
17th Amendment | Direct Election of Senators |
18th Amendment | Prohibiton of Alcohol |
19th Amendment | Women's right to vote |
New Nationalism/Square Deal | Theodore Roosevelt |
New Freedom | Woodrow Wilson |
Incumbent President in 1912 | William Howard Taft |
Socialist Party Candidate | Eugene V. Debs |
Jacob Riis | How the Other Half Live |
Lincoln Steffens | Shame of the Cities |
Upton Sinclair | The Jungle |
Jane Addams | Twenty Years at Hull House |
Referendum | Legislature puts measure to voters for approval or rejection |
Recall | Voters force officials to stand for reelection |
Initiative | Voters force placement of measure on ballot |
Direct Primary | Voters select nominees for elections |
Social Gospel | Social movement to improve society by applying Christian principles |
Settlement House | Community center organized to provide social services to urban poor |
Americanization | Process of assimilating immigrants fully into US society |
Muckraker | Journalist who alerted public of wrongdoings of big business or gov’t |
Progressives | Concerned, reform-minded middle class citizens |
Methods Used By Progressives | Direct actions, publicizing problems, getting Progressives in office |
Characteristics of a Successful Reform Movement | Money, leaders, supporters, ideas for change |
Reforms of Society | Child labor laws, Improving education, improving working conditions |
Reforms of Government | City commission, Progressive governors pushing reforms, changing election rules |
Reforms related to Women | Temperance movement, Providing daycare/educations centers, Florence Kelley & the NCL |
Obstacles to Women's Suffrage | Male dominated society, view of women as inferior, competition with other groups |
Two Main Paths to Suffrage | Constitutional Amendment, voting rights at state level |
Conditions making 19th Am. Possible | WWI, 18th Am, Suffrage in states |
Booker T. Washington | Supported economic independence before civil rights for AAs |
W.E.B. DuBois | Supported demanding of civil rights for AAs immediately |
Examples of how African Americans organized | NAACP, Niagara Movement, Urban League |
Effect of TR leaving the Republican Party in 1912 | Split Republicans, Democrats win election |
TR's new political party in 1912 | Progressive (Bull-Moose) Party |