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JP Morgan

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Most famous business man

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Lincoln Steffens

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wrote “The Shame of Cities”

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Frank Norris

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Wrote “Octopus”

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Henry D. Lloyd

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wrote “Wealth Against Commonwealth”

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Jacob Riis

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wrote “How the Other Half Lives”

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Ida Tarbell

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criticized The Standard Oil Company & wrote “A history of Standard Oil”

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Robert La Follete

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Jobs based on merit system ; people vote on candidates

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John Muirs

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Advocates the creation of National Parks

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Louis D. Brandeis

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Attorney in Muller v Oregon ; wrote “Other’s People Money and How Bankers Use It”

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Who are yellow press?

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Pulitzer & Hearst

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James G. Blaine

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Started “Big Sister Policy”

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Richard Olney

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Cleveland’s Secretary of State ; made point that if Britain wanted Venezuela, they would be violating Monroe Doctrine

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Andrew Carnegie

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US Steel & robber baron

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John D. Rockefeller

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Formed Standard Oil Company

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Social Darwinism

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“Survival of the fittest”

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William McKinley

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This Republican candidate defeated William J. Bryan in the 1896 presidential election; pushed for high protective tariffs. Under his leadership, the U.S. became an imperial world power. He was assassinated by an anarchist in 1901.

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Grover Cleveland

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Achieved the Interstate Commerce Commission ; civil service reform ; vetoed hundreds of bills

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Hiram Johnson

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Put an end of Southern Pacific Railroad power

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Elkins Act

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Looked heavy fining for of companies who used rebates & those who accepted them

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Hepburn Act

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Signed by TR ; first company given power to establish rates

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Muller v Oregon case

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Restrictions of working hours in interests of protecting women’s health

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Meat Inspection Act

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It stated that the preparation of meat shipped over state lines would be subject to federal inspection

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Pure Food and Drug Act

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It was created in 1906 and was designed to prevent the adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals. It was made to protect the consumer.

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Newlands Act

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Washington was to collect money from sales of public lands in western states and use funds for development of irrigation projects

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Josiah Strong

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wrote “Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis”

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Frederick Remington

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an artist sent to Cuba to paint the “atrocity”

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William Shafter

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American general who led the invading force in Cuba, with the intent of driving out admiral Cervera. He was so fat and gouty that he had to be carried on a door. His troops were not remotely prepared for the Cuban climate.

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David G. Phillips

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wrote “The Treason in the Senate”

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Square Deal

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“Square Deal” embraced the three Cs: control of the corporations, consumer protection, and the conservation of the United States’ natural resources.

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Election of 1900

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McKinley (Rep.) v Bryan (Dem)

McKinley won

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Election of 1904

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Roosevelt (Rep) ; Parker (Dem) ; Debs (Socialists)

Roosevelt won

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Election of 1908

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Taft (Rep) ; Bryan (Dem)

Taft won

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Open Door Notes

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By John Hay ; respect Chinese

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Platt Amendment

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Legislation that severely restricted Cuba’s sovereignty and gave the US the right to intervene if Cuba got

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Teller Amendment

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promised the US would not annex Cuba after winning the Spanish-American war

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Root Takahira Agreement

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agreement with Japan in which we pledged to respect each other’s territorial possessions and to uphold the Open Door policy in China

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Woodrow Wilson

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New Freedom

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New Freedom

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Wilson’s policy that favored the small business, entrepreneurship, and the free functioning of unregulated and unmonopolized markets.

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White Men’s Burden

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A poem by British poet Rudyard Kipling commenting on American imperialism

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referendum

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political process in which the general public votes on an issue of public concern.

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WCTU

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(Women’s Christian Temperance Union) group organized in 1874 that worked to ban the sale of liquor in the U.S.

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Progressivism originated from…

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the Green Labor party and Populists

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Thorstein Veblen

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wrote “The Theory of the Leisure Class”

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Theodore Dreiser

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wrote “The Financier” & “The Titan”

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Thomas Lawson

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wrote “Frenzied Finance”

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2 progressive goals

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use state power to curb the trusts and to stem the socialist threat by generally improving the common person’s conditions of life and labo

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