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Chapter 28 Flashcards

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Causes of progressivism

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Roots in greenback labor party and populists
Social gospel movement
Literature
Industrialization
Immigration

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Goals

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Get rid of trusts
Improve thr common persons life and labor conditions
Women’s suffrage
No more laissez Faire
Rooting out graft
Regain their power
Direct election of senators

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Muckrakers

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Editors financed research and combative writing by their young reporters
Counted on publicity and the pivlix conscience, mot drastic political change

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Muckrakinf issues

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Malpractice of life insurance companies and tariff lobbies
Trusts
Government officials favoring big business over the people
Immoral white slave traffic of women
Slums
Industrial accidents
Subjugation of blacks
Child labor
Patent medicines

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Who

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Midfle class under pressure from big business , immigrants and labor unions
Protestan chruxt leaders
Politicians
Union leaders women
African as

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Regaining their power

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Both parties
Favored thr initiative so voters could propose legislation themselves
Referendum
Recall

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Referendum

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Place lawas on the ballotnl for final approval by thr people

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Recall

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Enable voters to remove elected officials

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Rooting out graft

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State legislatures passed acts limiting the money candidates could spend on the election
Australian ballot

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Australian ballot

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Introduced more widely to counteract boss rule

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Direct elections of srnators

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Const ammendment eventually passed after local legislatures applied pressure

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Women’s suffrage

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Believed women’s votes would elevate political tone
More liberal states gave suffrage

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Progressivism in cities

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City manager system
Commissions to manage affairs
Attacked slumlords, juvenile delinquency and prostitution
Cleaned up watersupplies, lit their streets and ran trolley cars

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Progressivism in states

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Regulate rr trusts
Wrested control from crooked corporations and gave it back to thr people

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Women

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Settlement houses exposed women to as problems
Women’s club movement brought even more to the reform movement
Defended their activism as an extension jot rejection of traditional roles
National consumers league, woments trade union league, children’s bureau, women’s bureau
Focused more on protecting women and children than granting benefits to everyone

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Muller v Oregon

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Louis d brandies preloaded ussc to accept thr const of laws protecting protecting women workers
Presented evidence of harmful effects of factory work on women’s weaker bodies

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Lochner v new york

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Invalidated ny law establishing a 10 hr work dat for bakers

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Teiangle shirt waist company

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Fire bc of locked doors

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Alcohol

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Women’s antiliquor campaign against saloons
Women’s Christian temperance union
Anti saloon league
Dry laws

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Square deal

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Trs domestic policy cor capital, labor and thr public

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3 cs

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Conservation of natural resources
Consumer protection
Control over corporations

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Coal strike

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Demanded 20^% pay increase
Mine owners did nothing, thinking Publix would support them
Coals supplies dwindled and hospitals and schools closed
Tr summoned all to white house and threatened to seize mines
Owners fave in with 10% pay boost
Created department of commerce and labor
Buruea of corporations

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Controlling thr corporations

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Interstate commerce commission inadequate and had to expand to include expressing sleeping car companies and pipelines
Elkins act of 1903
Hepburn act
Attacked northern securities company
Ussc declared beef trust illegal

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Elkins act

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Fines could be imposed on rr that fave rebates and on shippers that accepted them

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Why tr trust busted
Popularity Proge gov ruled the country Actually thought truests were economic progress
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Meat scandal
Upton Sinclair thr jungle Tr created special investigating commission Meat inspection act Pure good and drug act
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Meat inspection act of 1906
Preparation of meat shipped bw states would be subject to federal inspection
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Conservation
Desert land act of 1877 Forest reserve scy of 1891 Catey act of 1894 Newland act of 1902 Roosevelt dam Federal resevrce for 125 mil acres Books abt nature Boy scouts, Sierra club Preservationists lost when gov allowed dan Fran to build a dam for its water supply caller betcha hetechy valley in Yosemite Multiple use resource management New agencies: forest service and bureau of reclamation
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Desert land axt
Fed gov sold land cheaply on the condition that it would br irrigated
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Forest reserve sct
Public forests as national parks and other reserves
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Carey act
Distributed federal land to states for irrigation
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Newland act
Government could collect money from sale of public lands and use funds for irrigation
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Panic of 1907
Short panic in wall street Runs on bankable, suicides. And criminal indictments against speculators Blames tr bh saying he unsettled industry Tr said certain rich deliberately caused thr panic yo force gov to relX on trusts Aldrich Freeland act which allowed national banks to issue emergency currency
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Tr legacy
Fought many sham battles Cowboy Enthusiastic and youthful Protected capitalists against socialism Conservation Enlarged lower and prestige of presidential officr Big stick Shaped progressive movement
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Taft handicaps
Not dashing Passive towards congress Poor judge of public opinion
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Dollar diplomacy
Tafts foreign policy Gov encouraged Wall Street banks to invesy their surplus money in areas of strategic concern yo us Ny bankers would strengthen a defenses and forgiveness policies and bring further prosperity to us Knox tried to buy rr in Manchuria but failed and Taft was ridiculed
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Trust buster taft
90 suits Usssc Ordered thr dissolution if standard oil company but also said only restrained trade was illegal and created a hole Suit against us Steel corporation
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Splitting thr republican party
Taft signed Payne Aldrich bill angering progressives Bullinger opened public lands for corporations Citizen by pinch of hut dismissed by Taft
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Payne Aldrich bill
Only reduced tariff for some items
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1912 republican candidates
National progressive republican league formed w la follete as candidate Tr said he would run and la follete cast aside Tr delegates challenged tafts delegates
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Election of 1912
Dem nominee Woodrow wildon Platform new freedom Repub nominee tr Endorsed by Jane Addams New nationalism
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New nationalism
Both fabor3d more gov in economic and social affairs Tr favors continued consolidation of trusts and labor unions Woman's suffrage and social welfare
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New freedom
Favored small enterprise. Entrepreneurship, and free function or unregulated and unmonoplized markets Shunned social welfare Pinned economic faith on completion Naking reform Reduction of tariffs Fragmentation of big business
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Initiative
Voters proposing legislation
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Pure Food and Drug act
designed to prevent the aduolteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals
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hetch hetchy valley
dam for san frans municipal water supply
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ida turnbell
history of standard oil company
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Henry demarest lloyd
exposés of the Standard Oil Company
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thorstein veblen
popular and witty critic of capitalism, as shown by his best known book The Theory of the Leisure Class
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jacob a riis
how thr other half lives (slums)
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Robert m la Follette
Progressive Republican Governor of Wisconsin, this man wrested control from the corporations and gave it back to the people
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hiram w johnson
he oversaw numerous progressive reforms, including the passage of woman suffrage at the state level
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florence kelley
fought for government regulation to protect working women and children. She was the first female factory inspector
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frances e wilard
president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union
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gifford pinchot
first head of the United States Forest Service
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john muir
Father of the National Parks
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herbert croly
"the promise of the american life"

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