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Chapter 21: The Progressive Era 1901-1918 Flashcards

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Pragmatism

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The prevailing philosophy of romantic transcendentalism in America
~It enabled them to challenge fixed notions that stood in the way of reform

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Frederick Taylor

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Started the scientific management system

~Discovered ways of organizing people in an efficient manner

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Lincoln Steffens

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Wrote “The Shame of the Cities” (1904). Muckraker
~Caused a sensation by describing in detail the corrupt deals that characterized big city politics from Philadelphia to Minneapolis

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Theodore Dreiser

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Wrote “The Financier” and “The Titan”. Muckraker

~Portrayed the advance and ruthlessness of an industrialist

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Ida Tarbell

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Owned a magazine called ‘The History of the Standard Oil Company’
~Muckraking magazine

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Jacob Riis

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Photojournalist who documented articles on tenement life

~Published “How the Other Half Lives” (1890)

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Australian Ballot

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Ballots printed by the state and required voters to mark their choices secretly within the privacy of a curtained booth
~Stopped political party corruption concerning voting

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Direct Primary

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The new system for bypassing politicians and placing the nomination process directly in the hands of the voters
~Method for nominating party candidates by majority vote

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Robert La Folette

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Progressive governor of Wisconsin

~Introduced the direct primary system

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17th Amendment

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Requires that all U.S. senators be elected by popular vote

~Adopted in 1913 by the federal government

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Initiative

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Method by which voters could compel the legislature to consider a bill

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Referendum

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A method that allowed citizens to vote on proposed laws printed on the ballot

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Recall

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Enabled voters to remove a corrupt or unsatisfactory politician from office by majority vote before that official’s term had expired

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Commission Plans

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Voters elected the heads of city departments (fire, police, and sanitation) not just the mayor

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Became president after President McKinley’s assassination
~Progressive president
~Responsible for the “square deal” as well as many other reforms

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“The Square Deal”

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The deal that favored neither business nor laborer, but both
~Worked on a compromise that helped both parties
~Started by Theodore Roosevelt

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Anthracite Coal Mine Strike (1902)

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On coal, many Americans feared that they would freeze that winter
~Roosevelt stepped in with is “Square Deal”

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Elkins Act (1903)

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Gave the ICC greater authority to stop railroads from granting rebates to favored customers

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Hepburn Act (1906)

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The commission (ICC) could fix “just and reasonable” rates for railroads

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“The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair

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A muckraking book that described in horrifying detail the conditions in Chicago stockyards and the meat packing industry
~Led to improvements by Congress enacting two regulatory laws: The Pure Food and Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act

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Meat Inspection Act (1906)

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Provided that federal inspectors visit meat packing plants to ensure that they met minimum standards of sanitation

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Newland Reclamation Act (1902)

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A law providing money from the sale of public land for irrigation projects in Western States

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Pinochet-Ballinger Controversy

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When Chief of the Forrest Service, Gifford Pinochet criticized Secretary of the Interior, Richard Ballinger
~Taft stood by his cabinet member and fired Pinochet for insubordination
~Conservatives applauded, Progressives protested

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William Howard Taft

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Republican nominee for president after Roosevelt refused nomination
~Continued Roosevelt’s Progressive policies

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Mann-Elkins Act (1910)

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Gave the ICC the power to suspend new railroad rates and oversee telephone, telegraph and cable companies

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16th Amendment

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Gave the U.S. government to collect an income tax
~Approved by Progressives
~At first, the tax only applied to the wealthy
~Originally suggested by e Populists

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Payne-Aldrich Tariff (1909)

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Raised the tariff on most imports

~Angered Progressives in the Republican party

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Eugene Debs

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One of the founders of the socialist party
~Former railroad union leader, jailed for Pullman Strike
~Presidential nominee in 5 elections

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Election of 1912

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Dominated by reform efforts
~President Taft renominated, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Eugene Debs
~Came down to a battle between Roosevelt and Wilson
~Wilson won 435 electorals

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Bull Moose Party

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Nickname given to the new Progressive party

~Roosevelt claimed he was as strong as a Bull Moose

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New Nationalism

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Roosevelt’s basis for his campaign

~More government regulation of business and unions, women’s suffrage, and more social welfare programs

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New Freedom

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Wilson’s basis for his campaign
~Limit both big business and big government, reform by ending corruption, and revival of competition by supporting small business

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Underwood Tariff (1913)

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Substantially lowered tariffs for the first time in over 50 years
~Included graduated income tax rate from 1-6%

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Federal Reserve Act (1914)

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Americans use Federal Reserve Notes (dollar bills) to purchase goods and services

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Clayton Anti Trust Act (1914)

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Generally strengthened the provisions in the Sherman Anti Trust Act for breaking up monopolies
~Contained a clause for exempting unions from being prosecuted as trusts

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Federal Trade Commission

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The new regulatory agency
~Empowered to investigate and take action against any “unfair trade practice” in every industry except banking and transportation

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Federal Farm Loan Act (1916)

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12 regional banks established to provide farm loans at low interest rates

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Child Labor Act

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Prohibited the shipment in interstate commerce of goods manufactured by children under the age of 14
~Supreme Court found this unconstitutional

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Niagara Movement

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A program of protest and action aimed at securing equal rights for blacks
~Started by W.E.B. Du Bois at Niagara Falls

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Booker T. Washington

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Intellectual who argued that blacks need for education and economic progress were of utmost importance
~Said that only after establishing a secure economic base could African Americans hope to realize their other goal of political and social equality

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W.E.B. Du Bois

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A distinguished scholar and writer. Criticized Washington’s (Booker T.) approach and demand equal rights for African Americans
~Argued that political and social rights were a prerequisite to economic advancement

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NAACP

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
~Mission: to abolish all forms of segregation and increase educational opportunities for African American children
~Started by W.E.B Du Bois

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Carrie Chapman Catt

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President or the NAWSA group
~Argued for the vote as the broadening of democracy, which would empower women, thus enabling them to more actively care for their families in an industrial society

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NAWSA

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National American Women’s Suffrage Association
~Headed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony taken over by Carrie Chapman Catt
~Fought for equal rights for women and the right to vote

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National Women’s Party

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A more militant approach to gaining the vote, started by Alice Paul
~Hunger strikes, pickets, and parades
~Focused on winning the support of Congress and the President for an amendment to the constitution
~Broke from NAWSA

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19th Amendment (1920)

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Guarantees a women’s right to vote in all elections at the local, state, and national level

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League of Women Voters

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Organized by Carrie Chapman Catt

~A civic organization dedicated to keeping voters informed about the candidates and the issues

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