Chapter 20 - The Progressives

Du Bois

________ advocated talented blacks should accept nothing less than a full university education.

Triangle Shirtwaist Company

In 1911, a terrible fire swept through the factory of the ________ in New York City; 146 workers, most of them women, died.

Salvation Army

The ________, which began in England but soon spread to the United States, was one example of the fusion of religion with reform.

Social Darwinists

________ such as William Graham Sumner had argued that peoples fortunes reflected their inherent "fitness "for survival.

African Americans

________ faced greater obstacles than any other group in challenging their own oppressed status and seeking reform.

Drunkenness

________ spawned violence, and occasionally murder, within urban families.

Temperance

________ had been a major reform movement before the Civil War, mobilizing large numbers of people in a crusade with strong evangelical overtones.

dramatic expansion

The late nineteenth century saw a(n) ________ in the number of Americans engaged in administrative and professional tasks.