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Chapter 8- Progressive Era Flashcards

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Square Deal

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Theodore Roosevelt’s program to work for the needs of the people

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Trusts

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A group of companies who stock is controlled by central Board of Directors

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Trust-busting

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Term for Theodore Roosevelt breaking up of trusts

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Elkins act

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1903 it prevented railroads from giving refunds two favorite customers

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Hepburn act

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1906 it gave the government the power to cut railroad rates it felt were too high and to regulate pipelines

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Coal strike of 1902

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Theodore Roosevelt help settle the strike and for the first time a presidential concerned for the demand of working people instead of just for the rich business owners

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Meet inspection act of 1906

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This law was passed because of an expose on the filthy conditions in the meatpacking industry exposed in the book the jungle setting up a program a federal me inspections

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Pure food and drug act

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The federal government took the first steps toward banning Bally prepared foods and dangerous drugs

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William Howard Taft

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The man Theodore Roosevelt picked to replace him in the 1908 presidential election he won easily

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Tariff issue

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Progressives wanted tariffs reduced so prices for American consumers would go down but the government refused to do it and Taft went along

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Man Elkins act

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1910 the federal government through the interstate commerce commission gain the power to regulate telephone, telegraph, cable and wireless companies

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New nationalism

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After Taft anger the progressives Theodore Roosevelt emerged to run for a third term on this platform. Theodore Roosevelt’s new philosophy was far more liberal and pro reform in the old square deal. He wanted more safety and welfare lots more taxation of business and more regulation of large corporations

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Republican convention of 1912

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Theodore Roosevelt who is unhappy with tabs conservationism decided to run for president again but the Republicans chose Taft

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Bullmoose party

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Theodore Roosevelt and his supporters started this new party and ran theater Roosevelt for president in 1912 against a Republican Taft in the Democrat Wilson

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Election of 19

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There were four candidates the Democrat Wilson one and the Democrats also one control of Congress

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Woodrow Wilson

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28th president of the US had been president of Princeton University and governor of New Jersey before you became president

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Underwood tariff

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1913 1st Terrace since the Civil War that lower tariff duties to make good cheaper for the American people

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Federal Reserve act

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1913 I three-level federal system designed to improve the economy and control the money supply still important today

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Clayton antitrust act

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1914 law against monopolies, spelled out in clear terms what corporations could not do

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Federal trade commission

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Government agency designed to hold unfair practices by businesses

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Conservation

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The preservation and wise use of natural resources

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John Muir

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Famous conservationist and friend of Theodore Roosevelt’s who wanted lands protected from development completely

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Sierra Club

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Conservationist organization founded by John Muir in 1892 that is still active today and preserving Americas natural heritage

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Yellowstone

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Worlds first national park founded in 1872

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Gifford Pinchot

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A leading conservationist who tried to teach lumber companies how to harvest trees without destroying the forest

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Theodore Roosevelt on conservation

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He made conservation a national issue making all the people aware of the eventual disappearance of our natural resources

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Antiquities act

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1906 allow the president to set landmarks of greatest oracle importance as national monuments

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National reclamation act

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1902 money from the sale of government land could be used to build dams in other irrigation projects

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National conservation commission

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Theodore Roosevelt set this up to encourage the governors of all states to implement conservation programs in their own

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Ballinger-Pinchot controversy

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This sword relations between Theodore Roosevelt and Taft and conservationists Pinchot believed that ballin get was an enemy of conservation

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National Park Service

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Created by Wilson to oversee and manage the nations federal parks

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Jane Addams

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Pioneer in the field of social work who founded the settlement house movement through the establishment of whole house in Chicago Illinois

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Margaret Sanger

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Medicated urban poor about the benefits of family planning for birth control. She found in the organization that became planned parenthood

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Booker T. Washington

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Former slave who founded the Tuskeegee Institute that focused on teaching African-Americans trade skills to earn a living and gain the trust of white society

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WEB Dubois

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Founder of the NAACP and a Harvard educated professor who focused on the need for traditional liberal arts education for African-Americans who could then insist upon equal treatment and rights for white society

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Thomas Nast

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Made political cartoons, his subject was political crap shouldn’t buy New York City’s political machine Tammy Hall, led by boss Tweed

Tweed was convicted of embezzlement and died in prison

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Jacob Riis

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How the other half lives-he studied living conditions of the urban tour, focus on tenements

Nyc passed building codes to promote safety and health

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Ida B Wells

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A red record, provided statistics on the lynching of African Americans

NAACP join the fight for federal anti-lynching legislation

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Frank Noris

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The octopus, this fictional book exposed monopolistic railroad practices in California

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Ida Tarbell

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History of standard oil company, exposed the Rufus tactics of the standard oil company through a series of articles published in McLarens magazine

Standard oil company was declared a monopoly and broken up

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Lincoln Steffans

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Examined political corruption in cities across the United States

Cities began to use city commissions and city managers

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Upton Sinclair

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The jungle, investigated dangerous working conditions and unsanitary procedures in the meatpacking industry

In 1906 they meet inspection act and pure food and drug act will pass

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City commissioner plan

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Cities hired experts in different fields to run a single aspect of city government. For example the sanitation commissioner would be in charge of garbage and sewage removal

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City manager plan

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A professional city manager is hired to run each department of the city and report directly to the city Council

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Secret ballot

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Privacy at the ballot box ensures that citizens can cast votes without party bosses knowing how they voted

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Initiative

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Allows voters to petition the state legislatures in order to consider a bill desired by citizens

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Referendum

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Allows voters to decide if a bill or proposed amendment should be passed

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Recall

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Allows voters to petition to have an elected representative removed from office

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Direct primary

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Ensures that voters elect candidates to run for office rather than party bosses

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16th amendment 1913

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Granted Congress the power to tax income

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17th amendment 1913

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Provided for the direct election of US senators

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18th amendment 1919

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Prohibition making, selling, or transporting alcohol

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19th amendment 1920

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Provided woman suffrage

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Social gospel

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Blended ideas from German socialism and American progressivism into a plan for building a better society

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Theodore Roosevelt

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26th president of the US, took over after McKinley was assassinated in 1901

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Progressivism

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Emerged in the 1890s Progressives believe that new ideas and honest efficient government could bring about social justice

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Settlement house

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Community center that provided social services to the urban poor

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Florence Kelly

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Believe that woman or hurt by the unfair prices of goods they had to buy to run their homes she helped found the national consumers league

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National consumers league

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Founded by Florence Kelly the NCL gave special labels to goods produced under fair safe and healthy working conditions and herbs women to buy them and avoid products that do not have these labels

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Temperance movement

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Is group promoted temperance the practice of never drinking alcohol

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Carrie Chapman cat

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Traveled around the country urging women to join the national American woman suffrage Association she became president of the NAWSA

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Alice Paul

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Formed the national woman’s party which used public protest marches. The first group to march with picket signs outside the White House

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Mutualistas

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Groups that made loans and provided legal assistance

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