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Who came up with the concept of “productive industry” and “wasteful business”?

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Veblen

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What was Progressivism?

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Fight against corruption, inefficiency, monopolies, and injustices.

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Who wrote “how the other half lives”?

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Riis

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Who were the muckrakers?

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Reformer-writers

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What did muckrakers rely on?

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Public support

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17th Amendment:

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Direct Election of Senators*

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18th Amendment:

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National Prohibition

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19th Amendment:

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Women Suffrage

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This example appointed expert-staffed commissions to manage urban affairs

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Galveston, TX example

City-manager system

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Wrenched power from monopolists and have it back to the people

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La Follette

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What did women focus on?

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Temperance and factory conditions

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Protect women from effects of factories b/c they’re fragile

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Muller v. Oregon

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10-hour law

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Lochner v. NY

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1st chief factory inspector and advocate of improved factory conditions

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Kelley

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Square Deal

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  1. ) control corporations
  2. ) conserve natural resources
  3. ) consumer protection
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Roosevelt urged Congress to make this department

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Dept of Commerce and Labor

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Heavy fines on railroads and shippers with Rebates

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Elkins Act

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Restricted bribes and free passes

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Hepburn Act

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Ensure healthiness and cleanliness of meat

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Meat Inspection Act

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He wrote this book to talk about the horrible conditions of workers, but made people aware about the horrible meat conditions

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Sinclair’s “The Jungle”

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Prevent adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals

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Pure Food and Drug Act

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Square Deal

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  1. ) control corporations
  2. ) conserve natural resources
  3. ) consumer protection
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Roosevelt urged Congress to make this department

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Dept of Commerce and Labor

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Heavy fines on railroads and shippers with Rebates

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Elkins Act

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Restricted bribes and free passes
Hepburn Act
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Ensure healthiness and cleanliness of meat
Meat Inspection Act
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He wrote this book to talk about the horrible conditions of workers, but made people aware about the horrible meat conditions
Sinclair's "The Jungle"
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Prevent adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals
Pure Food and Drug Act
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Arid land purchasers irrigate lands within 3 years
Desert Land Act of 1877
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Set aside public forests for national parks/forests
Forest Reserve Act
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Distributed federal land to the states on the condition that the land be irrigated and settled
Carey Act
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Washington could collect money from the sale of Southwestern lands and use that money for internal improvements.
Newlands Act of 1902
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A big internal improvement due to the Newlands Act of 1902
Dams
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Square Deal
1. ) control corporations 2. ) conserve natural resources 3. ) consumer protection
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Roosevelt urged Congress to make this department
Dept of Commerce and Labor
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Heavy fines on railroads and shippers with Rebates
Elkins Act
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Restricted bribes and free passes
Hepburn Act
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Ensure healthiness and cleanliness of meat
Meat Inspection Act
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He wrote this book to talk about the horrible conditions of workers, but made people aware about the horrible meat conditions
Sinclair's "The Jungle"
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Prevent adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals
Pure Food and Drug Act
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Deep division between:
Conservationists and Preservationists
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Conservations believed:
Make good use of nature
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Preservationists believed:
Leave nature untouched
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Roosevelt suffered a sharp setback and was blamed
Panic of 1907 | Roosevelt Panic
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What were the good outcomes of the Roosevelt panic?
1.) elastic medium of exchange
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Authorized national backs to issue emergency currency backed by various kinds of collateral
Aldrich-Vreeland Act
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Who did Roosevelt choose as his successor?
Taft
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Achievements of Roosevelt?
1. ) power of president went up 2. ) progressive movement 3. ) imperialism
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What did Taft try to do?
Boost American political interests abroad.
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Where did Taft want to inject the US dollar and how?
China's Manchuria by strangling Chinese economic interests. However this failed
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What split the Republican Party?
Ballinger-Pinchot affair and tariffs
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Taft signed this bill and and betrayed his party by increasing tariffs
Payne-Aldrich Bill
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Ballinger-Pinchot
Pinchot was fired for criticizing Ballinger
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This doctrine by Roosevelt urged the national government to increase its power to remedy economic and social weaknesses.
New Nationalism
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Roosevelt wanted to be the leading candidate of this third party
National progressive republican league
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Woodard Wilson was:
Democratic
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What was Wilson's progressive platform called?
New Freedom Program
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What did the New Freedom Program include?
1. ) antitrust legislation 2. ) banking reform 3. ) tariff reductions
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What guaranteed a Dem victory?
Divided Republican Party
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New Nationalism Campaign
1. ) Consolidation of trusts and labor unions 2. ) growth of powerful regulatory agencies 3. ) social welfare
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New Freedom Campaign:
1. ) small enterprise 2. ) entrepreneurship 3. ) unregulated and unmonopolized markets 4. ) competition 5. ) no welfare
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What did Wilson assault?
Tariff, trusts, banks
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Substantial reduction of rates
Underwood Tariff Bill
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Why was the Underwood Tariff Bill a landmark in tax legislation?
Led to income tax which collected more revenue than anything.

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