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Fredrick w Taylor

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Scientific analysis of human activity offered solution to waste and inefficiency, could solve social ills

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Lochner v. New York

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Struck down state law limiting the working hours of bakers

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Legal realism

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Law should change with the times

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Pragmatism

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Judged ideas by their consequences and denied the existence of absolute truths. William James

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Henry George

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Wrote progress and poverty

Believed in single land tax

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Edward Bellamy

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Wrote looking backward about American socialism

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Henry dearest Lloyd

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Wrote wealth against commonwealth

Indictment of standard oil trust

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Eugene v debs

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Led socialist party

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Walter Rauschenbush

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Social gospel. Baptist cleric

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Lincoln Steffens

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Wrote about shame of cities And Tweed days in saint Louis

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Ida m Tarbell

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Attack to standard oil monopoly

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David Graham Phillips

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Wrote about how money control the Senate

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William hard

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Exposed industrial accidents and making steel and killing man and child labor

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Josephine Shaw Lowell

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Founded New York consumers league

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Florence Kelly

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Became powerful lobby for protective legislation for women and children

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Muller v. Oregon

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Upheld Oregon law limiting the work day for women to 10 hours consumer league hired Boston lawyer Louis D Brandeis to defend Oregon law

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National women’s trade Union league

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Organized by women workers played a role in strikes trained working-class leaders

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Rose Schneiderman

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Union organizer of New York garment workers

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Agnes Nestor

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Lead Illinois glove workers identified there cause with the broader struggle for women’s rights

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Alice Paul

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Organized Miltant national women’s party

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Carrie Chapman cat

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Took over national American women’s suffrage Association

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Advocated communal kitchens liberating women from homemaking

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Margaret Sanger

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Birth control

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Charles J Bonaparte

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Governor of Maryland got opposition to his bill for women’s industries by suffragists objecting to the idea that women needed special care protection privileges

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Robert la follette
Governor of Wisconsin wanted to go back to the first principles of democracy go back to the people led reforms and railroad regulation and political reform
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John Patterson
National Paksh register company model for municipal reformers
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Urban liberalist
Advocate of active intervention by the state and uplifting the laboring masses of American cities
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Triangle shirt waist company
Led to laws dealing with fire hazards unsafe machines industrial homework and wages and hours for women and children there Chamin was Robert F Wagner
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Victor Berger
First socialist congressman
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Anti-saloon league
Fought for prohibition in many states
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Immigration restriction league
Led to end of open door policy
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Danbury hatters case
Supreme Court declared a boycott by hatters Union against antiunion DE Loewe and Company to be a conspiracy and restraint of trade under the Sherman act awarding triple damages to the company and signaling the vulnerability the trade unions to crushing antitrust suit
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Bill of grievances
Written by the American Federation of labor demanded that Congress grand union immunity from antitrust suits and injunctions
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D w Griffith
Made a film called birth of a nation was about moral struggle between rampaging blacks and chivalrous KKK
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Niagara movement
To encourage black pride by all possible means and uncompromising demand for full political and civil equality and above all the resolute denial that African-American ascends to inferiority is submissive under oppression and apologetic before
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National urban league
Led social welfare interracial including Ovington and William Lewis Bulkley
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Leon f czolgsz
Shot McKinley | Anarchist
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New lands reclamation act
Designated proceeds from public land sales for irrigation of arid regions expanded nations forest upgraded land management prosecuted violators of federal land laws
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United mine workers
Led by John Mitchell Pres. invited them to White House to talk with owners of mine
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Bureau of corporations
And power to investigate business practices and bolster Justice Department's capacity to mount antitrust suit
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Trans-Missouri decision
Supreme Court abandoned rule of reason holding now that actions that restrained or monopolized trade regardless of the public impact automatically violated the Sherman act
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Elkins act
Prohibited discriminatory rates that gave an unfair advantage to preferred or powerful customers
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Hepburn Railroad act
Empowered ICC To set max shipping rates and prescribed uniform method of bookkeeping
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Upton Sinclair
Wrote the jungle wrote about meat packing plants
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Pure food and drug act and Meese inspection act and food and drug administration
Passed by Roosevelt after Sinclair's novel
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Square deal
Roosevelt initial program target of federal government as new economic order when companies abused their corporation power government would intercede to assure ordinary Americans square deal
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Antitrust doctrine
Enforce competition seemed inadequate when economies tendency was toward industrial concentration
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Payne Aldrich tariff
Raised the Tariff. sheltered eastern industries from foreign competition
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Pinchot ballenger affair
Taft fires Pinchot after he accuses Ballenger of conspiring To transfer Alaskan public land to private syndicate
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Standard oil decision
Supreme Court reasserted rule of reason courts would distinguish between good and bad trusts George W Wickersham now made antitrust decisions
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New nationalism
Roosevelts new plan property had to be controlled to whatever degree public welfare required it
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New freedom
Wilson's program
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Underwood tariff of 1913
Lowered the rates targeted trust dominated industries expected it to spare competition and reduce prices
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Federal Reserve act
Gave banking system that was resistant to financial panic delegated financial function to 12 district reserve banks that would be controlled by their member banks
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Clayton antitrust act
Amended Sherman act definition of illegal practices was left flexible subject to the test of whether it lessened competition or created monopoly
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Seamens act
Eliminated age old abuses of sailors aboard ship
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Federal Farm loan act
Gave low interest Rural credit system

AP US History (13 decks)

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