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Progressivism Flashcards

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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

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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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Arid land purchasers irrigate lands within 3 years

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Desert Land Act of 1877

29
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Set aside public forests for national parks/forests

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Forest Reserve Act

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Distributed federal land to the states on the condition that the land be irrigated and settled

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Washington could collect money from the sale of Southwestern lands and use that money for internal improvements.

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Newlands Act of 1902

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A big internal improvement due to the Newlands Act of 1902

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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

A

Hepburn Act

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Ensure healthiness and cleanliness of meat

A

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

A

Sinclair’s “The Jungle”

39
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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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Deep division between:

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Conservationists and Preservationists

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Conservations believed:

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Make good use of nature

42
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Preservationists believed:

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Leave nature untouched

43
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Roosevelt suffered a sharp setback and was blamed

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Panic of 1907

Roosevelt Panic

44
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What were the good outcomes of the Roosevelt panic?

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1.) elastic medium of exchange

45
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Authorized national backs to issue emergency currency backed by various kinds of collateral

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Aldrich-Vreeland Act

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Who did Roosevelt choose as his successor?

47
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Achievements of Roosevelt?

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  1. ) power of president went up
  2. ) progressive movement
  3. ) imperialism
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What did Taft try to do?

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Boost American political interests abroad.

49
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Where did Taft want to inject the US dollar and how?

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China’s Manchuria by strangling Chinese economic interests. However this failed

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What split the Republican Party?

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Ballinger-Pinchot affair and tariffs

51
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Taft signed this bill and and betrayed his party by increasing tariffs

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Payne-Aldrich Bill

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Ballinger-Pinchot

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Pinchot was fired for criticizing Ballinger

53
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This doctrine by Roosevelt urged the national government to increase its power to remedy economic and social weaknesses.

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New Nationalism

54
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Roosevelt wanted to be the leading candidate of this third party

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National progressive republican league

55
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Woodard Wilson was:

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Democratic

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What was Wilson’s progressive platform called?

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New Freedom Program

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What did the New Freedom Program include?

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  1. ) antitrust legislation
  2. ) banking reform
  3. ) tariff reductions
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What guaranteed a Dem victory?

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Divided Republican Party

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New Nationalism Campaign

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  1. ) Consolidation of trusts and labor unions
  2. ) growth of powerful regulatory agencies
  3. ) social welfare
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New Freedom Campaign:

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  1. ) small enterprise
  2. ) entrepreneurship
  3. ) unregulated and unmonopolized markets
  4. ) competition
  5. ) no welfare
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What did Wilson assault?

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Tariff, trusts, banks

62
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Substantial reduction of rates

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Underwood Tariff Bill

63
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Why was the Underwood Tariff Bill a landmark in tax legislation?

A

Led to income tax which collected more revenue than anything.

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