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

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Popularity
Proge gov ruled the country
Actually thought truests were economic progress

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Meat scandal

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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

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Preparation of meat shipped bw states would be subject to federal inspection

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Conservation

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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

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Fed gov sold land cheaply on the condition that it would br irrigated

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Forest reserve sct

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Public forests as national parks and other reserves

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Carey act

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Distributed federal land to states for irrigation

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Newland act

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Government could collect money from sale of public lands and use funds for irrigation

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Panic of 1907

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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

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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

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Not dashing
Passive towards congress
Poor judge of public opinion

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Dollar diplomacy

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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

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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

38
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Splitting thr republican party

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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

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Only reduced tariff for some items

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1912 republican candidates

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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

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Dem nominee Woodrow wildon
Platform new freedom
Repub nominee tr
Endorsed by Jane Addams
New nationalism

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New nationalism

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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

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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

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Voters proposing legislation

45
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Pure Food and Drug act

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designed to prevent the aduolteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals

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hetch hetchy valley

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dam for san frans municipal water supply

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ida turnbell

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history of standard oil company

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Henry demarest lloyd

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exposés of the Standard Oil Company

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thorstein veblen

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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

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how thr other half lives (slums)

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Robert m la Follette

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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

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he oversaw numerous progressive reforms, including the passage of woman suffrage at the state level

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florence kelley

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fought for government regulation to protect working women and children. She was the first female factory inspector

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frances e wilard

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president of Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

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gifford pinchot

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first head of the United States Forest Service

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john muir

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Father of the National Parks

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herbert croly

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“the promise of the american life”