Chapter 17 test

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Progressivism

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Urban reform movement that addressed social problems created by industrialization

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Progressive

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Movement that sought to enact political, corporate, and social reforms

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In the early 20th century, reform work attracted

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College-educated women seeking career opportunities

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Many women in the Progressive movement worked for

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Reform through volunteer organizations

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Muckrakers

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Journalists who exposed social ills and political and business corruption

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Ida Tarbell

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Wrote a series of articles exposing corruption within the Standard Oil Company

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S.S. McClure

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Publisher who encouraged writers to investigate corruption

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Lincoln Steffens

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Journalist who documented political corruption in The Shame of the Cities

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One of the few white progressives to focus on racial justice was

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Ray Stannard Baker

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Solutions to social problems in the early 1900’s were proposed by

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Writers such as Theodor Dreiser

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Progressive writers and intellectuals offered theories on how to solve social problems

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Such as corporate greed

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Florence Kelley

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Helped organize the National Labor Committee

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Reformer Florence Kelley helped

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Establish child labor laws

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The event that brought the need for workplace reform in the public eye was

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The Triangle fire of 1911

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The workplace issues progressives targeted for reform was

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1. Low wages and long hours
2. Child labor
3. Unsafe working conditions

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Supreme Court

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Opposed a number of progressive laws on the grounds of property rights and freedom of contract

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Supreme Court

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Struck down progressive legislation on the grounds that the laws denied workers freedom of contract and deprived business owners of their property

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Louis Brandeis

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Lawyer whose legal brief persuaded the Supreme Court to uphold a progressive Oregon Child Labor Law

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Louis Brandeis

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Prepared a legal brief containing extensive social research to defend legislation for working women

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Closed shop

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Workplace in which only union members are hired

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The Industrial Workers of the World

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Labor organization that welcomed unskilled workers and immigrants

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Under the leadership of “Big Bill” Haywood, the Industrial Workers of the World sought to

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Overthrow the capitalist system

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Industrial Workers of the World

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Labor organization that collapsed due to public mistrust, internal disagreements, and government crackdowns

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The American Federation of Labor did 3 things

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1. Work within the capitalistic system
2. Focus on skilled workers
3. Represent the minority of America’s industrial laborers

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Under the leadership of Samuel Gompers

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The American Federation of Labor supported reforms from within

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The New York Settlement-house worker who pushed for new guidelines for tenement construction was

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Lawrence Veiller

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Veiller believed that big city housing problems were caused by

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Owners of tenement buildings

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Progressives wanted to clean up cities by

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Increasing the role of local governments

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Women’s Christian Temperance Union

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Organization that promoted passage of the 18th Amendment

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Women’s Christian Temperance Union

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Organization that crusaded for the prohibition of alcohol

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The Eighteenth Amendment prohibited

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The manufacture or importation of alcoholic beverages

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Progressives concerned about American social ills and morals worked for all of the following

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1. Prohibition 2. Temperance 3. Censorship of movies

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W.E.B. Dubois

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Black leader who urged African Americans to become politically active

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W.E.B. Dubois

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African American leader who urged them to become politically active

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NAACP

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Organization that began African American’s long legal fight for racial justice

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Formed to help solve the problems of Native Americans, the Society of American Indians sought to

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Improve the public image of Native Americans

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Many progressives felt that immigrants should

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Be Americanized as quick as possible

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Immigrants supported progressives who fought for

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Reforms in public health and welfare

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During the early 1900s, the immigrant poor living in cities supported

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Progressive housing and public health reforms

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Jane Addams

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Settlement-house worker whose Hull House playground served as the model for many city playgrounds