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Industrialization and Progressivism Flashcards

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Social Darwinism

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Based on Darwin’s theory, survival of the fittest

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Prohibition

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Ban on production and sale of alcohol

ALCOHOL

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Referendum

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Local and state elections, people vote on issues

VOTING

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New Freedom

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Wilson’s reform program, transferring power, trusts to small businesses, restrict corporate influence, reduce corruption
PROGRESSIVE REFORM

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Federal reserve system

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Manages nations money supply, passed under Wilson

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Woodrow Wilson

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Idealist, scholarly, new freedom, Clayton antitrust act, Keating Owen child labor act, federal reserve act, 16, 18, and 19th amendments
PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENT

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Impulsive, shrewd, active, Sherman antitrust act, break monopolies, meat inspection act, pure food and drug act, national forest service, arbitration
PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENT

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William Taft

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Quiet, reserved, TR’s puppet, 90 lawsuits against trusts, children’s bureau, 17th amendment, referendum
PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENT

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William Tweed

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Political machine/boss, Tammany hall in NY

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“Mother” Jones

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Labor activist on behalf of coal miners

MUCKRAKERS

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Jacob Riis

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Journalist

MUCKRAKER

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Upton Sinclair/ The Jungle

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Wrote a book on unsanitary conditions in meatpacking plants

MUCKRAKER

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John Muir

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Preservation of wilderness

MUCKRAKER

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Jane Addams

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Social reformer who worked in Chicago, Jane Addams hull house- settlement house
MUCKRAKER

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Andrew Carnegie

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Carnegie Steel, Vertical integration, philanthropist, captain of industry,
BIG BUSINESS

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John D. Rockefeller

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Standard oil, horizontal integration, monopoly, robber Barron, bad rep
BIG BUSINESS

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Muckraker

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Brought to attention political, social, and environmental problems

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Square Deal

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Roosevelt’s reform program, regulate big business, protect workers and consumers
PROGRESSIVE REFORMS

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16th amendment

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1913, income tax

PROGRESSIVE REFORM

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17th amendment

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1913, direct election of senators, gave average citizens more influence in the senate
PROGRESSIVE REFORM

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18th Amendment

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1919, prohibiting alcohol, repealed by 21st amendment

TEMPERANCE, PROHIBITION, PROGRESSIVE REFORM

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19th amendment

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1920, women’s suffrage

PROGRESSIVE REFORM

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Extractive industry

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Businesses that take mineral resources from the earth

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Disenfranchised

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Deprive someone of a right of citizenship or privilege

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Lynching

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Hanging, especially with African Americans, Jim Crow laws

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Temperance Movement

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Called for illegalization of alcohol, people thought alcohol was the root of their problems
ALCOHOL

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Investors

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A provider of money for a corporation

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Socialism

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Means of production are owned by people rather than by capitalists and landowners
TYPES OF GOVT

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Capitalism

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Privately owned businesses, free market economy, free enterprise system
TYPES OF GOVT

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Patent

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Excludes others from making, using, selling a product

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Factors of production

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Land, labor, Capitol

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Monopoly

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A company that dominates a particular industry

BIG BUSINESS

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Trust

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A set of companies that prevents companies in the trust from competing with each other
BIG BUSINESS

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Telephone and Telegraph

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Sped up communication

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Sherman Antitrust Act

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Break monopolies and trusts, went against laissez faire, full of vague language, used by Roosevelt
BIG BUSINESS

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Robber Baron

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Some industrialists were given this name since they hurt workers, corrupted officials, and damaged the enviornment
BIG BUSINESS

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Vertical integration

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Controls each step in production and distribution of a product, used by Carnegie
BUSINESS STRATEGY

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Horizontal integration

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Merges as many firms from the same industry as possible, used by Rockefeller
BIG BUSINESS

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Laissez Faire

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Gov’t doesn’t touch free market

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Steerage

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Below main deck of a ship, most immigrants stayed here

IMMIGRATION

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Frederick Taylor

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Studied each task, and made it more efficient, increased productivity, cheaper goods

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Assembly line

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Made by Henry ford, followed Taylor’s research, increased productivity, cheaper goods

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Gilded Age

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Book by mark twain, politicians led glittering lives, but were corrupt

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Collective bargaining

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Negotiating between employers and employees

LABOR

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Yellow dog contracts

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Written pledges not to join a labor union, employers made workers sign these
LABOR

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Labor union

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A group of workers organized to protect the interests of its members
LABOR

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Corporation

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A company that exists independently from its owners

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Strike

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Employees refuse to go to work until their demands are met, most powerful tool of a labor union
LABOR

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Push factor

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Pushes people to leave home country, Irish potato famine, pogroms,
IMMIGRATION

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Pull factor

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Pulls people to us, jobs, America letters

IMMIGRATION

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Chinese exclusion act

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Prohibited immigration of Chinese laborers, Chinese in us can’t be citizens, first immigration restriction
IMMIGRATION

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Nativism

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Favoring interests of native born Americans over immigrants

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Progressive Reforms

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Used by progressive presidents to better economy, wanted progress in us

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Big business

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Increase Competition = more choice for consumers

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Labor

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Workers came together and fought for better wages, working conditions, and shorter hours

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Pendleton act

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Created civil service commission to administer exams for some gov’t jobs

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Direct primaries

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Voters decide their party’s candidates

ELECTIONS

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Recall

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Voters can remove an elected official through a direct vote

ELECTIONS

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Elections

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People would have more influence in the gov’t

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