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Muckrakers

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Journalists who exposed scandels=

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Unique traits to reformers of this period

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Acceptance of foreign ideas and urban operation (fast communication technology)

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The Shame of the Cities, The Jungle, the story of life insurance, and treason of the senate

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Muckraker works b

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The initiative

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voters directly propose laws; progressive reform

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The referendum

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Voters can accept or reject a law; progressive reform

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Recall

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Voters can recall officials; progressive reform.

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Settlement houses

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areas in big cities for diverse people to mutually mitgate social problems; adopted from England

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Florence Kelley

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Investigation into child labor; appointed state factory inspector; founded national consumers league

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Lillan Wald

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Increased respect for nursing; founded NAACP

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Jane Addams

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Noble peace price 1931

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Bread and Butter reform

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Reforms to benefit urban workers

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Social Gospel

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“What would Jesus do”? Progressive reform.

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Socialist party

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Led by Eugene V Debs; not widely accepted

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Robert M. La Follette

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Progressive republican elected governor; rejection of social darwinism; equitable taxes + regulation of railroads

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17th amendment

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Direct election of senators

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16th amendment

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Income tax

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Labor reforms

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Compensation for injuries, age min, limit hours, aid to low income mothers

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American Association for Old Age

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Reform: Aid for old people

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Anti-Saloon League

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Allied with WCTU; passed 18th amendment 1919

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Mann Act

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Prohibited transport of female for immoral purposes 1910

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John Dewey

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Part of reform of education; thought school should be about experience rather than memorization

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Education reforms

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Train select few -> more available; segregated black schools; higher female enrollment

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Louis D. Brandeis

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Judges opinions should be based on scientifically gathered information; upheld oregon’s ten hour limit on wormen’s workday with evidence; appointed to SC by Wilson (first jewish)

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Lochner v. New York

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Court aruged that 14th amendment protect an individual’s right to make employment contracts

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NCL
protection of female/child laboroers; elimination of health hazards in marketplace; collaborated with women's clubs; urged cities to fund clinics
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Francis Galton
Founded eugenics
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Booker T. Washington
Argued for accommodation with whites to regain rights
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Niagara movement
Anti-booker; led by Du bois
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Du Bois
Talented Tenth; Radical; involved in the founding of NAACP
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SAI
Scoiety of American Indians; Red progressives; faltered in realization
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The Woman Movement
Argued that rights are indispensable to moving from household to higher education and paid professions
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Social Housekeeping
Idea that women's skills in management of hone and family can be used to reform society
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National Association of Colored Women
First AA social service organization; social service such as black churches
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"Woman and Economics" argued against men's monopoly in jobs; wanted women to have access
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Margaret Sanger
American Birth Control league; eugenist
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Harriot Stanton Blatch
Linked voting to improving women's working conditions; Equality league of self-supporting women (1907)
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Carrie Chapman Catt
Leader of National American Women Suffrage åssociation
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Alice Paul
Leader of National Women's party with Blatch
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19th amendment
Result of women contribution in WWI; national suffrage
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TR's rise to power
Mckingly assassinated in 1901; repub bosses mad at him for showing sympathy for regulatory legislation so they pushed him into national politics
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Northern securities company
Considered by TR to be a bad trust; owned by J P Morgan; other bad trusts are railroad, meatpacking, oil
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Bureau of Corpoations
worked with TR to help businesses merge and expand
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Hepburn act (1906)
TR; strengthen ICC; prove not guilty rather than prove guilty
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Meat Inspection act
Upton Sinclair's the Jungle inspired TR to make this act; government monitor quality of processed meat
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Pure food and drug act
1906; required products to list ingredients
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Pennslyvania coal mine strike
1902; compromise: workers get 8 hour and higher wages, management does not have to recognize union; TR threated to use federal troops to reopen mines
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Brownsville shooting
TR discharged AA soldiers without pay without evidence due to a shooting
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TR: Conservation over preservation
Created reserves; Conservation = use wisely; transfer ownship to state/private -> federal management over land that remains public domain
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Gifford Pinchot
Chief forester; advocate of wise use policy
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Panic of 1907
Reckless speculation caused NY banks to close to stop depositors from withdrawing money; Morgon helped convince people to stop dumping stocks; TR responded by allowing US Steel to absorb Tennesse Iron and Coal company
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Payne Aldrich Tariff
Only did some tariff cuts that progressives wanted
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Mann-Elkins Act (1910)
Bolstered ICC
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16th and 17th were made in __'s presidency
Taft
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National Progressive Republican League
Rallied behind Robert La follette for 1912; broke off from repub because did not like Taft
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Bull moose party
Roosevolt mad at taft for firing Pinchot, claimed he was strong as a bullmoose and ran again
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New Nationalism
proposed by TR; an era of unity in which gov regulates
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New Freedom
proposed by Wilson; break up monopolies but do not restore laz
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Clayton Anti-trust act and Federal Trade commission
Sherman anti trust but better; outlawed price discrimmination; enforced by FTC
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Federal reserve act
1913; banks in districts made money more fair for small borrowers
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Underwood tariff
1913; lowered tariff, raised income tax
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Federal Far mLoan Act
12 fed banks that loans to farmers; kinda like subtreasury
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Adamson Act
Eight hour workdays + overtime pay for railroad laborers
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Wilson racism
Fired several black officials, preserved segregation
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Charles Evans Hughs
ran against Wilson in 1916

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