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Chapter 16: Progressivism Flashcards

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progressivism

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wide-ranging reform movement targeting problems

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muckrakes

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exposed people to awful conditions through photography and journalism

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Jacob Riis

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Danish immigrant who faced New York poverty; exposed slums through magazines and photography; How the Other Half Lies

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Ida Tarbell

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exposed corruption of standard oil

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Lincoln Steffens

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Shame of the Cities; exposed corrupt city government

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Lilian Wald

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activist; worked with public health services and created birth control

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Tenement Act

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landlords had to install lighting in public hallways and 1 toilet per 2 families

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NAACP

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; 1909; fought for rights of African Americans

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ADL

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Anti-Deformation League; Sigmud Livingston; fought anti-seminism

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Sigmud Livingston

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creator of ADL

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anti-semenism

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prejudice against Jews

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Florence Kelley

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prohibited child labor and how many hours women could work

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Cochner v. New York

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1905; court refused to uphold a law limiting bakers to 10 hour workdays

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Muller v. Oregon

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court upheld a state law establishing a 10 hour workday for women in laundries and factories

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Bunting v. Oregon

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court upheld law that extended the protection of a 10 hour workday to men working in mills and factories

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Triangle Shirtwaist company fire

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triangle shirtwaist company; small fire; 140 died; NY state passed toughest fire-safety laws in the nation; factory inspection and sanitation laws; owners fined $75 per person

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ILGWU

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international ladies garment workers union

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industrial workers of the world

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formed to oppose capitalism; wobbles

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William “Big Bill” Haywood

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used traditional tactics and engaged in racial tactics like industrial sabotage

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Tom Johnson

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mayor who set new rules for police, released debtors from prison, and supported fairer tax system

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Robert La Follet

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Wisconsin Ideas

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Wisconsin Ideas

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limited campaign spending; regulate railroads; civil service; oversee transportation; taxation

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17th amendment

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voters elect senator directly

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nurturing jobs

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teaching; nursing

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direct primary
voters select party's candidate for public office
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initiative
allows citizens to propose new laws
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referendum
allows citizens to vote on a proposed/ existing law
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secret ballot
people vote privately without fear of coercion
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recall
allows voters to remove an elected official from office
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18th amendment
banned the manufacture, sell, and distribution of alcohol
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anti-saloon league
against saloons
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women's christian temperance union
temperance and women's rights
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Frances Willard
WCTU
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Billy Sunday and Carry Nation
preached against alcohol
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Carry Nation
scary lady with hatchet
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Ida B Wells-Barnett and Margret Murray Washington
Tuskegee Institute
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Harriet Tubman
Underground Railroad conductor
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NWSA
national women's suffrage association
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Elisabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
founded NWSA
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AWSA
American women's suffrage association
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Henry Ward Beecher
president of AWSA
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Susan B. Anthony
2 sisters registered and voted; got arrested 2 weeks later; didn't pay fine and wanted to go to court
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Seneca Falls convention
Lucretia Mott and Elisabeth Cady Stanton; meeting 250 women and 40 men; "all men and women created equal"
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Leon Czolgsz
assassinated William McKinley
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bully pulpit
publicized important issues
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Coal Strike of 1902
PA workers; Roosevelt in office; miners and coal miners wouldn't get along; threatened to take over mines; square deal
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square deal
everyone's happy and equal; Roosevelt's campaign
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wtcu
women’s temperance christian union
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northern security company
dominated railroad shipping in Chicago and northwest
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NSC
violated Sherman Antitrust Act; Roosevelt helped stop; northern security company
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Elkins Act
prohibits railroads from accepting rebates; all customers pay the same price
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Hepburn Act
strengthens interstate commerce commission; gives powers to set maximum railroad rates; tried to keep prices down
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Upton Sinclair
The Jungle; meatpacking industry exposed through book
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meat inspection act
requires federal government inspection of meat shipped across state lines
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pure food and drugs act
outlawed food and drugs containing harmful ingredients
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John Muir
helped protect Yosemite Park and thought entire wilderness should be preserved
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active management
pak rangers and forestry
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New lance Reclamation Act
reflects Roosevelt's beliefs; government can make dry land productive and sell land to farmers to buy wilderness
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Antiquities Act
led to creation of 18 national monuments; parks
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William Howard Taft
friend of Roosevelt's; became president
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16th amendment
grant Congress the power to make income tax
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Payne-Andrich tariff
supposed to lower income tax; too many rules and turned out raising income tax
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tariff
tax on imports
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Richard Ballinger
let business leaders illegally buy millions of acres of protected public land to drill for oil in Alaska
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Gifford Pinchot
accused Ballinger; Taft fired Pinchot instead
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19tm amendment
couldn't deny anyone voting rights based on their sex
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Election of 1912
3 candidates; republican had Taft; Wilson ran for democratic and won
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Bull Moose Party
progressive party; Roosevelt candidate
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Wilson's new freedom
tariff reductions, banking reform; stronger antitrust regulation
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Underwood tariff act
lowered taxes to their lowest level in 50 years
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Federal reserve act
3 tier banking system
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1st layer: federal reserve board
decide interest rates
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2nd layer: federal reserve banks
banks bank
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3rd layer: private banks
people's bank
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Clayton antitrust act
forbade companies from buying stock in competing companies in order to form monopolies
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federal trade commission
FTC; enforced antitrust laws and was tough on companies that used deceptive advertising
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Alice Paul
helped get the 19th amendment passed
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Governor Albert Roberts
called special vote to consider the 19th amendment
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Harry Burn
broke deadlock in favor of women's suffrage
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3/4 of states must ratify a propose amendment for it to become a law
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Brownsville Incident of 1902
discharged 167 African Americans accused of going on a shooting spree; dishonorably discharged

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