https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6 Vocab en-us 2016-11-22 13:44:52 UTC 2025-04-28 18:22:59 UTC hello@padlet.com rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/139344462 Florence Kelley was a social and political reformer. Her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, and children's rights is widely regarded today.

]]> 2016-11-22 13:48:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/139344462 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/139344627 The National Consumers League, founded in 1891, is an American consumer organization. The National Consumers League is a private, nonprofit advocacy group representing consumers on marketplace and workplace issues.

]]> 2016-11-22 13:49:23 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/139344627 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/139344921 The temperance movement is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

]]> 2016-11-22 13:50:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/139344921 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/139345277 Margaret Higgins Sanger (born Margaret Louise Higgins, September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse.]]> 2016-11-22 13:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/139345277 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/139345765 Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931), more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement.


]]> 2016-11-22 13:52:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/139345765 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/139346100 The right to vote in political elections.]]> 2016-11-22 13:53:25 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/139346100 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/139346485 Carrie Chapman Catt (January 9, 1859 – March 9, 1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920.

]]> 2016-11-22 13:54:43 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/139346485 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/139347279 The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was formed on February 18, 1890 to work for women's suffrage in the United States.]]> 2016-11-22 13:56:51 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/139347279 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/139347443 Alice Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and the main leader and strategist of the 1910s campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote.


]]> 2016-11-22 13:57:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/139347443 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/139347642 The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920.


]]> 2016-11-22 13:57:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/139347642 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140186463 Americanization is the process of an immigrant to the United States of America becoming a person who shares American values, beliefs and customs and is assimilated into American society.]]> 2016-11-28 14:42:25 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140186463 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140187262 2016-11-28 14:44:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140187262 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140187269 Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community.]]> 2016-11-28 14:44:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140187269 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140187429 William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor.]]> 2016-11-28 14:44:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140187429 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140187881 The Niagara Movement was a black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group led by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter. It was named for the "mighty current" of change the group wanted to effect and Niagara Falls, near Fort Erie, Ontario, was where the first meeting took place in July 1905.]]> 2016-11-28 14:45:34 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140187881 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140188553 The NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is a civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of "people of color."]]> 2016-11-28 14:46:43 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140188553 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140188987 The National Urban League (NUL), formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, is a nonpartisan civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States.]]> 2016-11-28 14:47:31 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140188987 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140189385 The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is an agency of B'nai B'rith, an international Jewish service organization. The ADL combats anti-Semitism, religious and racial intolerance, and all forms of organized discrimination based on stereotypical beliefs.]]> 2016-11-28 14:48:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140189385 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140189870 Mutualistas were community-based mutual aid societies created by Mexican immigrants in the late 19th century United States.]]> 2016-11-28 14:49:30 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140189870 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140812954 Political philosophy of Theodore Roosevelt, an espousal of active federal intervention to promote social justice and the economic welfare of the underprivileged; its precepts were strongly influenced by Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life (1910).]]> 2016-11-30 14:27:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140812954 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140813429 A political leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Roosevelt was president from 1901 to 1909. He became governor of New York in 1899, soon after leading a group of volunteer cavalrymen, the Rough Riders, in the Spanish-American War.]]> 2016-11-30 14:28:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140813429 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140814124 Roosevelt greatly expanded the power of the President. He used his office and its powers to convince Americans of the need for change and to push through his reform proposals.]]> 2016-11-30 14:30:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140814124 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140816297 A 1906 United States federal law that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum railroad rates and extend its jurisdiction. This led to the discontinuation of free passes to loyal shippers.]]> 2016-11-30 14:35:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140816297 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140816867 The Federal Meat Inspection Act" of 1906 (FMIA) is an American law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.]]> 2016-11-30 14:36:52 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140816867 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140817223 An Act— For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.]]> 2016-11-30 14:37:42 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140817223 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140817880 John Muir (April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914) also known as "John of the Mountains", was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States.]]> 2016-11-30 14:39:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140817880 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140818497 Gifford Pinchot (August 11, 1865 – October 4, 1946) was an American forester and politician. Pinchot served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service from 1905 until his firing in 1910, and was the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1923 to 1927, and again from 1931 to 1935.]]> 2016-11-30 14:40:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140818497 rbatson7491 https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140818967 The Reclamation Act (also known as the Lowlands Reclamation Act or National Reclamation Act) of 1902 is a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West.]]> 2016-11-30 14:41:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rbatson7491/klh30h6iven6/wish/140818967