APUSH Chapter 22

Jacob Riis

"How the Other Half Lives", muckraker, photojournalist

Niagara Movement

(1905) W.E.B. Du Bois and other young activists, who did not believe in accommodation, came together at Niagara Falls in 1905 to demand full black equality. Demanded that African Americans get right to vote in states where it had been taken away, segregation be abolished, and many discriminatory barriers be removed. Declared commitment for freedom of speech, brotherhood of all peoples, and respect for workingman

Bull Moose Party

A name given to the Progressive Party, formed to support Theodore Roosevelt's candidacy for the presidency in 1912.

Booker T Washington

Believed in self-help and slow integration. Opposite views of W.E.B DuBois.

The Jungle

By Upton Sinclair, the American people got a glimpse of what the Chicago meat packing industry was like. Led Roosevelt to pass the Pure Drug and Food Act.

New Freedom

Democrat Woodrow Wilson's political slogan in the presidential campaign of 1912; Wilson wanted to improve the banking system, lower tariffs, and, by breaking up monopolies, give small businesses freedom to compete.

Robert LaFolette

Governor of Wisconsin. "Wisconsin Idea". Most progressive governor.

Muckrakers

Journalist that criticized the government and big business. Called out politicians on corruption

Ida Tarbell

Muckraker, criticized the Standard Oil Company

Lincoln Stefens

Muckraker, took down Boss Tweed's political machine

NAWSA

National American Woman Suffrage Association; founded in 1890 to help women win the right to vote

NAACP

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Clayton Antitrust Law

Prohibited monopolies and practices that lessened competition. Also allowed labor unions to strike. Strengthened Sherman Antitrust Act

Pragmantism

Psychology; people shape their environment and the environment shapes people

New Nationalism

Roosevelt's domestic platform during the 1912 election accepting the power of trusts and proposing a more powerful government to regulate them

Hepburn Act

Strengthened the Interstate Commerce Act Commission. Regulated the railroad industry

T.R.'s "Square Deal"

The Square Deal was President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program formed upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. These three demands are often referred to as the "three C's" of Roosevelt's Square Deal.

Sixteenth Amendment

The constitutional amendment adopted in 1913 that explicitly permitted Congress to levy an income tax.

Seventeenth Amendment

The people elect two senators per state to represent them, instead of the senators being elected by a committee.

Federal Reserve Act

a 1913 law that set up a system of federal banks and gave government the power to control the money supply

Nineteenth Amendment

granted women the right to vote in 1920