6.1 Vocab
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- Lincoln Steffens
- Exposed the corruption of city goverments.
- Jane Adams
- another memeber of the NAACP
- Florence Kelly
- Found the National Child Labor Comitee. Mission was to ban Child Labor.
- Robert M. La Follette
- progressive governer of Wisconsin, who created the Wisconsin idea.
- Labor Unions
- fought for better working conditions.
- Jacob Riis
- Investigative Journalist who worked hard to expose the real society.
- AFL
- American Federation of Labor- skilled workers were memebers.
- Seventeenth Ammendment
- This ammendment gave voters the right to directly vote for their senator instead of doing so through the state legislatures.
- Recall
- to be able to hold a special election to remove an official from office.
- How the other half lives
- Jacob Riis book, which shows urban poverty
- Muckcrackers
- investigative journalist who exposed the filth of society.
- The Jungle
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- Wisconsin Idea
- new set of refroms such as electoral reforms, state comissions were created to regulate railroads.
- Progressives
- reform that was created to adress social problems, worked to improve the living conditions of the poor.
- Intiative
- allows citizens to propose laws to the ballot
- W.E.B Du Bois
- was a member of the NAACP
- Referendum
- allows citizens to vote on a proposed law or a existing law
- Ida Tarbell
- A muckraker who worte a report condeming John D. Rockefellers Standard oil company.
- NAACP
- National Association for the Advancement of colored people fought for the rights of African Americans.
- Triangle shirtwaist fire
- A fire that erupted in a high rise building that flamed to the 8th floor.many died due to the fact that the doors where locked while others jumped out of windows.