Progressive Era

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Progressive movement

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And early 20th century reform movement seeking to return control of the government to the people, to restore economic opportunities, and to correct injustices in American life

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Florence Kelley

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“became an advocate for improving thelives of women and children. She was appointed chief inspector of factories for Illinois after she had helped to win passage of the Illinois Factory Act in 1893. The act, which prohibited child labor and limited women’s working hours, soon became a model for other states”

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Prohibition

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The banning of selling, making, and buying alcohol

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Muckrakers

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Magazine journalist who exposed the corrupt side of business on public life

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Scientific management

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The application of scientific principles to increase efficiency in the workplace

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Robert M. La Follette

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Major target was the railroad industry
“served three terms as governorbefore he entered the U.S. Senate in 1906. He explained that, asgovernor, he did not mean to “smash corporations, but merely to drive‑them out of politics, and then to treat them exactly the same as other people are treated

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Initiative

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Procedure by which the legislative measure can be originated by the people rather than the lawmakers

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Referendum

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Your procedure by which a proposed legislative measure can be submitted to a vote of the people

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Recall

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A procedure for removing a public official from office by the vote of the people

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17th amendment

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Can amendment adopted in 1913 that provides for the election of the US senators by the people rather than state legislatures

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Jacob Riis

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Wrote picture books, presented how dangerous monopolies are, took pictures in the slums and presented them to the people

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Ida B Wells

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Wrote about African-American lynching

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Ida Tarbell

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• wrote about oil

- “Ida M. Tarbell described the company’s cutthroat methods of eliminating competition.

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Uptown Sinclair

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“focus was the human condition in the stock yards of Chicago. Sinclair intended his novel to reveal “the breaking of human hearts by a system [that] exploits the labor of men and women for profits.