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- Q1The movement beginning in the late 1800s to increase democracy in America by curbing the power of the corporation. It fought to end corruption in government and business, and worked to bring equal rights of women and other groups that had been left behind during the industrial revolution.Progressivism30s
- Q2Powerful Progressive impulse to limit and disperse wealth. Had much in common with Populism, empowered the government to regulate or break up trusts.Antimonopoly30s
- Q3The strength of the social bonds in society between people of different ethno-cultural backgrounds or socio-economic classesSocial Cohesion30s
- Q4Writer or journalist of the early 1900s who uncovered shameful conditions in business and other areas of American life.Muckraker30s
- Q5A leading muckraker and magazine editor, she exposed the corruption of the oil industry with her 1904 work, A History of Standard Oil.Ida Tarbell30s
- Q6Famous muckraker who exposed the corruption of political machines in the cities in his book The Shame of the Cities.Lincoln Steffens30s
- Q7Movement that taught religion and human dignity would help the middle class over come problems of industrializationSocial Gospel30s
- Q8This welfare organization came to the US from England in 1880 and sought to provide food, shelter, and employment to the urban poor while preaching temperance and morality. Christian based organization.Salvation Army30s
- Q9Places that offered social services to urban poor and immigrants- often food, shelter, and basic education. Hull House was the most famous.Settlement House Movement30s
- Q10Social reformer who worked to improve the lives of the working class. In 1889 she founded Hull House in Chicago, the first private social welfare agency in the U.S., to assist the poor, combat juvenile delinquency and help immigrants learn to speak English.Jane Adams30s
- Q11Movement that emphasized an imposition of standards, licensing of practitioners, and accreditation of professional schools.Professionalism30s
- Q12Product of social and economic changes. Wage earning activity had moved out of house and into factory or office, children enrolled in school at earlier ages, technology (running water, electricity) made housework less of a burden, declining family size.The "New Woman"30s
- Q13The relationship between women who lived together, often in long-term, sometimes romantic, relationships."Boston Marriages"30s
- Q14The right to vote in political electionsSuffrage30s
- Q151920, guarantees women the right to vote.Nineteenth Amendment30s