Gilded Age & Progressivism Flashcards
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“Police Power”
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- US gvt trying to break up monopolies.
- Controlled Governance
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Pendleton Civil Service Act
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- Merit based federal jobs through exams
- Illegal to fire them for politcal reasons
- Wanted to break Spoils System, which had become common
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Mississippi Plan
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- (1875)
- developed by white Sn during Reconstruction
- Overthrow MS Rep Party by threat of violence and suppression of black vote
- Used poll taxes and test to disenfranchise
- Go against 15th, but SCOTUS said it was ok because it was not by race, but edu
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Jim Crow
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- “Separate but equal” laws
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Plessy v Ferguson
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- SCOTUS deciding that segregation not against US Const
- “Separate but Equal”
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Ida B. Wells
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-African-American journalist and activist
-Led an anti-lynching crusade in 1890s.
- International campaign
- Created a foundation for CR in the future.
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Panic of 1893
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- Depression from 1893 to 1897
- Led to political realignment of 1896(→ P. William McKinley)
- Led to the need to expand to find more customers and to save the economy from panic
Led to imperialism
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Eugene V. Debs
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- Socialist, Activist, Unionist
- Founder of Industrial Workers of the World
- Speech to interfere with WWI military recruitment
- Indicted for violating Espionage Act of 1917
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Progressivism
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- Political attitude for change
- Not one movement and not one goal
- Ex of people) socialist, new upper middle class, government people, social gospel, women’s suffrage, and muckraker
- Ex of goals) equalizing society + workers’ rights (socialist), helping the poor + spreading Christianity (social gospel ), moral reform (temperance), women’s suffrage, narrowing socioeconomic inequality + immigrant Americanization, exposing corruption, eugenics.
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Muckraking
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- in-depth investigative journalism
- exposed big business and govt
- increased worker and consumer protection
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“Fighting Bob” La Follette
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- American Lawyer and politician
- Championed Progressive reform
- bringing legislation possibility to the people
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Settlement Houses
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- Helped immigrants adjust to American life.
- Run by women
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Social Gospel
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- A movement in the late 1800s / early 1900s
- Emphasized Christian ethics to social problems
- Advocated by Walter Rauschenbusch
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Booker T Washington
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- Dominant African-American leader
- Ideas:
- Hard work will lead to change - accept small changes for white support
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WEB Du Bois
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- American Sociologist, socialist, historian, CR activist
- “Appeal to the World”: Voting rights, civic and education equality
- To the UN by the NAACP - Opposite to Booker T Washington
