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Chapter 16: Progressivism Flashcards

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progressivism

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wide-ranging reform movement targeting problems

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muckrakes

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exposed people to awful conditions through photography and journalism

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Jacob Riis

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Danish immigrant who faced New York poverty; exposed slums through magazines and photography; How the Other Half Lies

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Ida Tarbell

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exposed corruption of standard oil

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Lincoln Steffens

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Shame of the Cities; exposed corrupt city government

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Lilian Wald

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activist; worked with public health services and created birth control

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Tenement Act

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landlords had to install lighting in public hallways and 1 toilet per 2 families

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NAACP

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; 1909; fought for rights of African Americans

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ADL

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Anti-Deformation League; Sigmud Livingston; fought anti-seminism

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Sigmud Livingston

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creator of ADL

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anti-semenism

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prejudice against Jews

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Florence Kelley

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prohibited child labor and how many hours women could work

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Cochner v. New York

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1905; court refused to uphold a law limiting bakers to 10 hour workdays

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Muller v. Oregon

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court upheld a state law establishing a 10 hour workday for women in laundries and factories

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Bunting v. Oregon

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court upheld law that extended the protection of a 10 hour workday to men working in mills and factories

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Triangle Shirtwaist company fire

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triangle shirtwaist company; small fire; 140 died; NY state passed toughest fire-safety laws in the nation; factory inspection and sanitation laws; owners fined $75 per person

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ILGWU

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international ladies garment workers union

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industrial workers of the world

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formed to oppose capitalism; wobbles

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William “Big Bill” Haywood

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used traditional tactics and engaged in racial tactics like industrial sabotage

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Tom Johnson

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mayor who set new rules for police, released debtors from prison, and supported fairer tax system

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Robert La Follet

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Wisconsin Ideas

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Wisconsin Ideas

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limited campaign spending; regulate railroads; civil service; oversee transportation; taxation

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17th amendment

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voters elect senator directly

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nurturing jobs

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teaching; nursing

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direct primary

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voters select party’s candidate for public office

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initiative

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allows citizens to propose new laws

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referendum

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allows citizens to vote on a proposed/ existing law

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secret ballot

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people vote privately without fear of coercion

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recall

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allows voters to remove an elected official from office

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18th amendment

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banned the manufacture, sell, and distribution of alcohol

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anti-saloon league

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against saloons

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women’s christian temperance union

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temperance and women’s rights

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Frances Willard

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Billy Sunday and Carry Nation

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preached against alcohol

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Carry Nation

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scary lady with hatchet

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Ida B Wells-Barnett and Margret Murray Washington

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Tuskegee Institute

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Harriet Tubman

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Underground Railroad conductor

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NWSA

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national women’s suffrage association

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Elisabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

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founded NWSA

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AWSA

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American women’s suffrage association

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Henry Ward Beecher

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president of AWSA

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Susan B. Anthony

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2 sisters registered and voted; got arrested 2 weeks later; didn’t pay fine and wanted to go to court

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Seneca Falls convention

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Lucretia Mott and Elisabeth Cady Stanton; meeting 250 women and 40 men; “all men and women created equal”

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Leon Czolgsz

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assassinated William McKinley

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bully pulpit

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publicized important issues

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Coal Strike of 1902

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PA workers; Roosevelt in office; miners and coal miners wouldn’t get along; threatened to take over mines; square deal

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square deal

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everyone’s happy and equal; Roosevelt’s campaign

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wtcu

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women’s temperance christian union

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northern security company

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dominated railroad shipping in Chicago and northwest

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NSC

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violated Sherman Antitrust Act; Roosevelt helped stop; northern security company

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Elkins Act

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prohibits railroads from accepting rebates; all customers pay the same price

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Hepburn Act

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strengthens interstate commerce commission; gives powers to set maximum railroad rates; tried to keep prices down

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Upton Sinclair

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The Jungle; meatpacking industry exposed through book

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meat inspection act

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requires federal government inspection of meat shipped across state lines

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pure food and drugs act

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outlawed food and drugs containing harmful ingredients

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John Muir

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helped protect Yosemite Park and thought entire wilderness should be preserved

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active management

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pak rangers and forestry

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New lance Reclamation Act

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reflects Roosevelt’s beliefs; government can make dry land productive and sell land to farmers to buy wilderness

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Antiquities Act

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led to creation of 18 national monuments; parks

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William Howard Taft

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friend of Roosevelt’s; became president

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16th amendment

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grant Congress the power to make income tax

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Payne-Andrich tariff

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supposed to lower income tax; too many rules and turned out raising income tax

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tariff

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tax on imports

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Richard Ballinger

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let business leaders illegally buy millions of acres of protected public land to drill for oil in Alaska

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Gifford Pinchot

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accused Ballinger; Taft fired Pinchot instead

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19tm amendment

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couldn’t deny anyone voting rights based on their sex

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Election of 1912

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3 candidates; republican had Taft; Wilson ran for democratic and won

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Bull Moose Party

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progressive party; Roosevelt candidate

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Wilson’s new freedom

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tariff reductions, banking reform; stronger antitrust regulation

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Underwood tariff act

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lowered taxes to their lowest level in 50 years

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Federal reserve act

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3 tier banking system

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1st layer: federal reserve board

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decide interest rates

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2nd layer: federal reserve banks

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banks bank

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3rd layer: private banks

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people’s bank

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Clayton antitrust act

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forbade companies from buying stock in competing companies in order to form monopolies

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federal trade commission

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FTC; enforced antitrust laws and was tough on companies that used deceptive advertising

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Alice Paul

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helped get the 19th amendment passed

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Governor Albert Roberts

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called special vote to consider the 19th amendment

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Harry Burn

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broke deadlock in favor of women’s suffrage

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perfect 36

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3/4 of states must ratify a propose amendment for it to become a law

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Brownsville Incident of 1902

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discharged 167 African Americans accused of going on a shooting spree; dishonorably discharged

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