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Positives of progressivism

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The place is growing and moving forward

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What is progressivism

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A belief by mainly middle class Americans that social, economic and political progress of the nation required the intervention by concerned citizens willing to initiate reforms at local, state, and national level

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Conservative view of progressivism

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You are letting the government take complete control of you

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How long did progressivism last?

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1890’S to the end of WWI

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The issues progressivism wanted to solve

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Fair business practices, public health, honesty in government, women’s suffrage,

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Where/what were the settlement house movements?

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Established in poor neighborhoods, only living with the poor= bridge class divide, women formed the backbone, and this is a secular movement

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What is the social gospel

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Christian vision of reforming individuals & society

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What belief does the social gospel connect with?

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Social Darwinism/ gospel of wealth

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Founder of social gospel?

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Washington Gladden

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Beliefs and goals of the temperance/prohibition

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Attacks on alcohol, hand in hand with social purity, element of nativism, and environment, not heredity= human behavior

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What was sympathetic to the settlement houses

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Labor

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What was the alliance?

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Cross- class alliance ?

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What did the WTUL

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Working and middle class women unite, under American Federation of Labor

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What happened to the triangle shirt waist company after the public outcry over building safety codes and when?

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1911, 146 women died, brown building (NYU Science Lab)

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Who is Jane Addams?

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Pioneer in th settlement house movement, founded Hullhouse in Chicago

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Lillian Wald

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“Mother of public health nursing” founded the henry street settlement

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Who is Florence Kelley

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Led the National consumer league to protect women and children

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Progressivism problem solutions

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Government should be more active, social problems are impacted by government action & legislation, money is needed to fix problems, reliance upon scientific investigation and academic expertise

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What did the reform of Darwinism and social engineering do?

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Questioned survival of the fittest and use intellect to reform environment

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What are technocrats?

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Scientific bureaucrats who attempt to control social change

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Who said blind natural forces in society must give way to human foresight?

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Frank ward a sociologist

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In 1900 progressivism won elections in both what?

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Local and state government

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Who was the progressive crusader from 1899-1909?

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Tom Johnson, Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio

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What was the issue did Tom Johnson have and what was it called?

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Mayor Tom Johnson v. Streetcars; wanted to lower prices of fares from 5 cents to 3 cents; he did this by instituting a new tactic of municipal ownership

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How many times did Tom Johnson get reelected and why?

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Reelected 4 times, but lost eventually because of reforms like the streetcars

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What is a referendum?

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The practice of submitting a measure passed or proposed by legislature to the citizens for their approval

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What is a recall?

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The removal of a public official from office taken by a vote of the people after a petition drive has been certified

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Initiative

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A procedure by which citizens propose an ordinance or an amendment and bring it to a popular vote for approval or rejection

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Progressive crusader from 1911-1917

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Hiram Johnson, Governor of CA and one of the founders of the progressive party

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Who kills McKinley and who becomes president after him ?

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Anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan American Exposition and Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

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What did TR suffer from

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Asthma

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What are three professions of TR?

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Politician, author, soldier and youngest man to move into the White House

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What were TR political views

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Republican and leader of progressives

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Who was the first president to have secret service?

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TR

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What did TR do as president ?

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Strengthened government, anti- laissez faire, viewed wealthy capitalist as criminals

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What was the name of Roosevelt’s campaign slogan?

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The Square deal

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What did the campaign slogan of TR consist of ?

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Natural resources, control of big business, consumer protection and believed in the stewardship theory, and presidency was a bully pulpit

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What was the trust buster of 1904

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Northern Securities S.C. Case

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What did the arbitrator cause

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The United mine workers strike

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What did the square include?

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Roosevelt threatened seize of mines, 1906, “meat inspection act and pure food and drug act are signed into law by TR, ban mislabeled food products, eventually leads to the FDA

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What are Muckrakers?

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People that had a style of journalism that exposed corruption of big business and government

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What book was most important from the Muckrakers

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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

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What was roosevelts contribution to conservation

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He went from 43 million acres of forest in government resources to 194 million acres

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Who was Gifford and what did he do?

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Headed the national forest service and was the chief forester

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Who was John Muir and what did he do?

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Helped establish Yosemite National park founded and head by Sierra club

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TR view of foreign policy

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Involved and aggressive

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What did TR support

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Monroe doctrine and the idea of supremacy of the civilized nations

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What happened for the Panama Canal to be built

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Colombians reject 10 million dollar and 250 k yearly , Panama Canal took ten years to build and costed 350 million, 5,500 american lives lost

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TR wielded what?

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The big stick in the Western Hemisphere

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What was the Monroe doctrine?

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European powers should stay out of the Western Hemisphere and we stay out of European affairs

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What is the Roosevelt Corollary?

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In order to prevent such intervention, the U.s. Was justified in acting first (Latin American must act with decent to prevent brutality)

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What prize does TR win and why?

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Nobel peace prize after helping Japan and Russia negotiate the treaty of Portsmouth

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