Chapter 9 Flashcards

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Florence Kelley

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A woman advocate for improving the lives if women and children.

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Progressive movement

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Aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct injustices in American life.

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Prohibition

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The banning off alcoholic beverages.

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Muckrakers

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Journalists who wrote about the corruption side of business and public life in mass circulation magazines.

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Scientific management

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Studies to see how quickly manufacturing tasks could be preformed.

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Robert La Follete

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Progressive republican governor from Wisconsin who fought corporate corruption.

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Initiative

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A bill originated from the people rather than lawmakers.

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Referedum

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A vote on a intitiative.

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Recall

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Enabled voters to move public officials from office by facing another election before their term ended.

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Seventeenth amendment

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Senetors elected directly from citizens, not politicitians.

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Carry Nation

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A radical Prohibitionist who often vandalized and destroyed bars and pubs.

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NAWSA

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National American woman suffer eagle association.

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Suffrage

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The right to vote.

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Susan b anthony.

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A leader of the woman suffrage movement.

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Elizabeth cady Stanton

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Co founder of national woman suffrage Association.

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Seneca falls convention of 1848

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A convention causing a split within women suffragists about the 14th and 15th amendments.

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Uptown Sinclair THE JUNGLE

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A book about the unsanitary stockyards and meat packing plants of Chicago.

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Theodore Roosevelt.

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A progressive president who introduced many reforms and conservation practices.

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The Square Deal

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The various progressive reforms sponsored by the Roosevelt advministration.

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Meat inspections act.

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Dictated strict cleanliness requirements for meat packers.

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Pure food and drugs act

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Halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling.

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Conservation.

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The preservation of certain wilderness areas.

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John Muir

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A naturalist and writer who convinced Roosevelt to set aside 148 million cadres of forest reserves.

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Booker t Washington.

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A civil rights cat driving who believed that African americans would gradually prove their value to society.

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W E B Du Bois
Civil rights activist who established the NAACP and called for immediate social and economic equality for African Americans.
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NAACP
national association for the advancement of colored people.
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Muckrakers.
Coined by Theodore Roosevelt. Journalists who raked the muck to reveal what was beneath.
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Lincoln Steffens.
Muckraker who published exposés of business and political corruption such as the shame of the cities, and the struggle for self government.
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Ida Tarbell.
A journalist that published the History if the standard oil company, revealing Rockefeller's ruthlessness.
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Jacob Riis.
Muckraker famous for his photography of poverty and child labor, such as his publication , how the other half lives.
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William Howard Taft
Former Roosevelt secretary of war and following president.
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Payne Aldrich tariff
A compromise for tariffs that only moderated high rates of the Aldrich bill.
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Bull moose party
Alternative name for progressive party coined by teddy Roosevelt courage and strength
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Woodrow Wilson.
Democratic president who won the 1912 election.
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Gifford Pinchot
Head of us forest service under Roosevelt.
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Carrie chapman act
President of NAWSA when suffrage amendment was passed.
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Clayton-antitrust act
Strengthened Sherman antitrust act of 1890. Sought to stop monopolies from forming.
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Federal trade commission
A watchdog agency that investigated corporate corruption and violations.
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Federal reserve system
The acquiring of Americas banking system by the government the serves as the banking system today.
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18t amendment
Prohibition
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19th amendment.
Women suffrage amendment.
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Frank Lloyd wright
An architect who designed orderly efficient and natural buildings.