. Flashcards

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term used by reformers from Republican and Democratic Parties in 1912 they formed their own party.

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Progressivism

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fed public tastes for scandal by exposing social, economic, and political
wrongs.

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Muckrakers

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muckraker who wrote disparaging history of Standard Oil (first published in McClure’s, 1902–1904).

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Ida Tarbell

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  • hoped his exposés of bosses’ misrule in McClure’s (later published as The Shame of the Cities in 1904) would inspire mass outrage and reform
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Lincoln Steffens

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muckraker who wrote The Jungle

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Upton Sinclair

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a fictionalized exposé of Chicago meatpacking plants

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The Jungle

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passed by Roosevelt, This law required government agents to monitor the quality of processed meat

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Meat Inspection Act

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passed by Roosevelt, . The law required that labels list the ingredients—a goal consistent with Progressive confidence that with the truth, people would make wiser purchases.

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Pure Food and Drug Act

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largest womans organization of its time

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Women’s Christian Temperance Union

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A response to social Darwinism

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social gospel

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the American Railway Union organizer who drew nearly 100,000 votes as the Socialist presidential candidate in 1900

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Eugene Debs

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was one of the most dynamic Progressive governors. A small-town lawyer, he rose through the state Republican Party to become governor in 1900. There, he initiated direct primaries, more equitable taxes, and railroad regulation. After three terms as governor, he became a U.S. senator

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Robert La Follette

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CA governor who fought for regulation of children’s and women’s labor, workers’ compensation, a pure food and drug act, and education reform.o

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Hiram Johnson

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permitted voters to propose laws

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Initiative

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enabled voters to accept or reject a law

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Referendum

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allowed voters to remove offending officials from office

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Recall

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to assist companies in merging and expanding

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Department of Commerce and Labor

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legalized the federal income tax (Taft)

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16th Amendment

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provided for direct election of U.S. senators, were initiated during Taft’s presidency (and ratified in 1913)

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17th Amendment

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ratified in 1919 and implemented in1920), outlawing the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors, embodied the Progressive goal to protect family and work-
place through reform legislation

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18th Amendment

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women’s suffrage amendment-gave women the right to vote

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19th Amendment

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1913 establishes the central banking system

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Federal Reserve Act

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is created to investigate unfair trade practices.

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Federal Trade Commission

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asserted that schools needed to prepare children for a modern world by making personal development the focus of the curriculum

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John Dewey

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not only wanted to ensure that children were exposed to age appropriate materials, but they also focused on preparing children for the modern world by teaching them to use their ingenuity to solve real-life problems
John Dewey
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philosopher who worked with john dewey
G. Stanley Hall
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believed that the Constitution was a flexible document. His Economic Interpretation of the Constitution (1913) argued that a group of merchants and business-oriented lawyers created the Constitution to defend private property
Charles Beard
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associate justice of the Supreme Court between 1902 and 1932, led the attack on the traditional view of law as universal and unchanging. Their argument that law should reflect society’s needs challenged the practice of invoking inflexible legal precedents
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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a lawyer who later joined Holmes on the Supreme Court, insisted that judges’ opinions be based on scientifically gathered information about social realities. he collected extensive data on the harmful effects of long working hours to convince the Supreme Court, in Muller v. Oregon (1908), to uphold Oregon’s ten-hour limit to women’s workday
Louis Brandeis
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application of biological natural selection and survival of the fittest to human interactions.
Social Darwinism
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planned parenthood and birth control controversy, In 1921 she formed the American Birth Control League, supported eugenics
Margaret Sanger
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gives Atlanta compromise speech, articulated self help strategy
Booker T. Washington
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1895 Atlanta Exposition
Atlanta Compromise
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In 1905 a group of anti-Bookerites convened near Niagara Falls and pledged militant pursuit of unrestricted voting, economic opportunity, integration, and equality before the law. Representing the Niagara movement was_____________
W. E. B. Dubois
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The organization aimed to end racial discrimination, prevent lynching, and obtain voting rights through legal redress in the courts
NAACP
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term used to describe those who were concerned with womans place in society, woman right to citizenship
Feminism
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assumes the presidency after McKinley is assassinated, organized a volunteer cavalry brigade, called the Rough Riders, to fight in Cuba, formed a third party—the Progressive, or Bull Moose, Party
Theodore Roosevelt
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Central to Theodore Roosevelt’s campaign it envisioned an era of national unity in which government would coordinate and regulate economic activity
New Nationalism
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principal advocate of the wise use policy, promoted scientific management of the nation’s woodlands
Gifford Pinchot
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a financial panic caused by reckless speculation forced some New York banks to close to prevent frightened depositors from withdrawing money. J. P. Morgan helped stem the panic by persuading financiers to stop dumping their stocks
Panic of 1907
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easily defeated three-time Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan
William Howard Taft
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the party that Roosevelt ran under
Progressive Party
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aka the progressive party/Roosevelt
“Bull Moose” Party
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won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1912. Established FTC/FRA)
Woodrow Wilson
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- central to Woodrow Wilson’s campaign, argued that concentrated economic power threatened individual liberty and that monopolies should be broken up to ensure a free marketplace
New Freedom