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What does YMCA stand for

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Young mens christian association

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What were the two major aims of the progressive movement

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to restore economic oppurtunity

to correct injustice in American life

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What 3 things did salvation army provide to the poor and immigrants

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Fed the poor in soup kitchens
openeded nurseries
sentout the “slum brigade” to instruct poor immigrants in middle class values

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What were 2 provisions of the Illionois Factory act

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prohibited child labor

limited the number of hours women could work

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Who was responsible for gathering information that led to the passafe of the Illionios Factory act

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Florence Kelly

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What was the purpose of the temperance movement

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Banning of alcoholic beverages

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Who were the two woman that led the WCTU

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Frances willard

Carrie Nation

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Why did the Anti Saloon league come into conflict with immigrants

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They were accustomed to drinking alcohol. Saloons provided other sercics such as cashing paychecks and serving meals

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Who was the founder of the American Socialist party

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Eugene V Debs

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Why did people join the Socialist Party

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They saw the truth of many of Debs criticisms

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What was a muckracker and who gave them this label

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Crusading journalists. By theodore Roosevelt

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What was the scientific managament that was fostered by Frederick Winslow Taylor

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He broke manufacturing tasks into simpler parts. Used studies to show how quickly a task could be performed

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Describe the production line that was developed by Henry Ford

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Workers were in a long line working on seperate parts to make the process go faster

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Why did wokers hate Henry Ford

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They all were so tired bc of the many hours they worked

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What is the background of the new Commision Form of government

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  • Made up of experts and each took over a department under his expertise
  • they had no political tie to anyone
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Who was the governor of wisconsion that became the “poster boy” for the state progressive movement

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Robert M La Follette

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What is the name for the secret ballot

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Australian Ballot

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a vote on an intitiive. Also a vote on a bill proposed by a state legislature

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Referendum

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A bill is producedd by the people rather than the legislature and is placed on the ballot in a general election

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Initiiative

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Voters could remove an elected official from office by forcing them to face a special elction before their term ended

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recall

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Who wrote “The History of the Standard Oil Company”

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Ida Tarbell

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what was outlawed by the Keating-Owen Act

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Prohibited the transportation accross state lines of goods produced with child labor

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election of 1900

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rep: Pres- william Mckinely
Vp
Dem-Pres- William Jennings Bryan

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What was name of TR’s program

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The savere deal

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Who was the author of the jungle

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Upton Sinclair

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what was the meat inspection act

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Dictated strict cleanliness for meatpackers and provided for federal inspections of plants

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what was the pure food and drug act

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stopped the source of contaminated foods and meats

required manufactures label their medicines with their ingredients

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what type of story was printed in Collier’s magazine

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Muckracker stories

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why was president theodore roosevelt nicknamed a truckbuster

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when he took on the nothern securities company, that had a railroad monopoly over north western railroads. He then sued themm under the sherman act

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what types of trusts did he bust

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ones that drove their competition out of business with cutthroat competition

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How did president roosevelt propose to end the coal strike in pennyslvania if the owners did not agree to settle it

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he threatened to take over the mines with the army

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A naturalist, writer that compared for a week with TR outwest

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John Muir

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Who wrote the souls of black folk

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W.E.B Dubois

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What does NAACP stand for

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National association for the advertisement of colored people

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Election of 1904

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Rep: Tr
Dem: Alton B. Parker

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election of 1908

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Dem: William Bryan
rep: William Taft

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What was the nickname of roosevelts progressive party

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Bull Moose party

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Election of 1912

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Dem Woodrow Wilson
Rep William Taft
Progressive T R
Socialist Eugene Debs

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Progressive Platform- reduced tarrifs/banking reform/ stronger anti trust laws

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New Freedom

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Labor did have right to exist/strike/ could not be prosectued under anti law

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magna carta of labor

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Set up the federal income tax

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16th amendment

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divided the nation into 12 districts

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federal reserve act

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women had federal voting rights only in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, washington, and Idaho

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womens suffrage

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Lead for womens rights and suffrages

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sus b anthony and carrie chapman catt

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formed a radical fgorup

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alice paul

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