Progressivism Flashcards
Fredrick w Taylor
Scientific analysis of human activity offered solution to waste and inefficiency, could solve social ills
Lochner v. New York
Struck down state law limiting the working hours of bakers
Legal realism
Law should change with the times
Pragmatism
Judged ideas by their consequences and denied the existence of absolute truths. William James
Henry George
Wrote progress and poverty
Believed in single land tax
Edward Bellamy
Wrote looking backward about American socialism
Henry dearest Lloyd
Wrote wealth against commonwealth
Indictment of standard oil trust
Eugene v debs
Led socialist party
Walter Rauschenbush
Social gospel. Baptist cleric
Lincoln Steffens
Wrote about shame of cities And Tweed days in saint Louis
Ida m Tarbell
Attack to standard oil monopoly
David Graham Phillips
Wrote about how money control the Senate
William hard
Exposed industrial accidents and making steel and killing man and child labor
Josephine Shaw Lowell
Founded New York consumers league
Florence Kelly
Became powerful lobby for protective legislation for women and children
Muller v. Oregon
Upheld Oregon law limiting the work day for women to 10 hours consumer league hired Boston lawyer Louis D Brandeis to defend Oregon law
National women’s trade Union league
Organized by women workers played a role in strikes trained working-class leaders
Rose Schneiderman
Union organizer of New York garment workers
Agnes Nestor
Lead Illinois glove workers identified there cause with the broader struggle for women’s rights
Alice Paul
Organized Miltant national women’s party
Carrie Chapman cat
Took over national American women’s suffrage Association
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Advocated communal kitchens liberating women from homemaking