Chapter 21 - Urban American and the Progressive Era 1900-1917

Sociologist Lester Frank Ward

________ presented the orthodox theory, which attributed social inequality to natural selection and 'the survival of the most fitting,'in his innovative work Dynamic Sociaology.

Americas Labor Federation

The ________ became the most strong and stable workers 'organization following the 1890s depression.

Journalism changes

________ helped fuel a new consciousness of reform by drawing people's attention to urban poverty, political corruption, the distress of industrial workers and unethical business practices.

Hepburn Act

The ________ strengthened by permitting it to set maximum railway rates and to inspect financial records the Interstate Commerce Commission, established in 1887 as the first independent regulatory agency.

Du Bois

A black middle class product, ________ was educated at Fisk and Harvard University and was the first Afro- American to receive his doctorate in 1895.

Oregon

________ was the first State to adopt two other reforms in 1902: the initiative, the popular legislative power and the referendum, and the right to vote in favor of a legislative proposal in popular terms.

anti Saloon League

Founded in 1893, the ________ began to hold a local campaign to prevent liquor within their geographical boundaries in rural counties and small towns.

suburb of New York City

In 1910, Sanger lived with husband and three children in a(n) ________, a 35- year- old woman nurse and housewife.

murder of William McKinley

The ________ in 1901 led to the youngest man ever to hold the office of President, Theodore Roosevelt, forty- two years old.

Federal Trade Commission

Founded in 1914, the ________ tried to give the federal government the same kind of regulatory control over companies the ICC had over trains.

Margaret Sanger

In her campaign to provide contraception information and instruments to women, ________ invented a phrase "Birth Control "in around 1913.

Theodore Roosevelt

________, as a naturalist and outdoor expert, believed that the government needed to regulate the natural environment.

Clayton Antitrust Act

The ________ of 1914, replaces the old Sherman Act of 1890 as the nation's fundamental law of antitrust, was also supported by Wilson.

New York City neighborhood of Greenwich Village

The ________ was coalesced during the 1910s by an important small community of peers, reporters, poets, social workmen, lawyers and political activists.

Du Bois

________ created a major alternative to the leadership of Washington.