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Progressivism(Unit 5) Flashcards

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Rutherford Hayes

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Republican and ended reconstruction

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James a Garfield

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Republican killed by a lawyer Charles Guiteau

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Chester Arthur

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Republican created Civil Service Commission check qualifications

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Benjamin Harrison

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Republican Sherman antitrust act

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Grover Cleveland

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Democrat only president elected twice not in a row

Stops Pullman strike

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William Mc Kinley

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Why does it keep monopolies assassinated Roosevelt president

Killed by Leon czolgosz

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Progressive era

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1890 through 1920
A variety of reforms were inactive at all levels
Many Progressives believe that political action and reform or required for progress in society

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Muckrakers

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Journalist that expose turn-of-the-century problems/people

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Economic reform

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Reformers sought To curb the power and influence of wealthy interests
Stop monopolies trusts limit gap between rich and poor

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Sherman antitrust act

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Enacted in 1890
Effort by Congress to end trusts
Ineffective due to lack of enforcement

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Clayton antitrust act

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Strengthened the Sherman antitrust act
Spelled out specific activities that businesses could and could not do
Illegalized strikes

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Federal reserve system

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Regulates amount of money in circulation
Set interest rates
Regulates how much a bank can lend

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16th amendment

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Congress can levy income taxes

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Ida Tarbell

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History of standard oil exposed the practices of big business

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Social reform

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Government should be given expanded powers so that it could become more active in improving the lives of its citizens

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Woman’s rights

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Suffrage owning property divorce clothing birth control

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Woman’s reform leaders

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Susan B Anthony
Florence Kelly
Alice Paul

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Protection of the environment

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Antiquities act of 1906
Protect and preserve wildlife areas
Allows president designate national monuments

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Tenement life

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Overcrowding of cities Poor living conditions unsanitary conditions

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Unsafe working conditions in child labor

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Fewer hours higher wages safer factories unions

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Triangle shirt waist factory

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Unsafe working conditions lead to fire their locked in and jumped from windows
Led to a push for comprehensive safety and Worker’s Compensation laws

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Safer medicines

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Restriction of harmful drugs proper labeling government approval for future drugs/Medicines

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Safer food

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Government inspection of food proper labeling cleanliness

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The jungle

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Written by Upton Sinclair

Reveal horrors of the meatpacking industry

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Pure food and drug act of 1906

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Created food and drug administration prescriptions required for light since physicians label warnings of symptoms or addiction warnings

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Meet inspection of

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All animals were required an inspection
Carcasses were subject to a postmortem inspection
Cleanliness standards were established for slaughter houses and processing plants

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Civil rights movement

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African-Americans were still fighting for basic rights guaranteed to them in the Constitution

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Problems African-Americans fought against

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Poll tax paid to vote
Literacy tests prove you can read to vote
Grandfather clause

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Jim Crow laws

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System of laws that segregated public services by race

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Plessy versus Ferguson

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Separate but equal

Supreme Court ruled Homer Plessy saying segregation was legal as long as separate facilities were equal

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Lynching

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Mobs illegal seizure and execution of a person usually by hanging

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Booker T. Washington

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Encourage African-Americans to become educated and learn a trade

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W EB Dubois

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Encouraged African-Americans to attend college and become leaders
Started NAACP

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NAACP

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National Association for the advancement of colored people

Gain equal rights

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Moral reform

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End prostitution
End gambling 
End drunkenness
Education for children
Americanization and restriction of immigrants
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18th amendment

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Prohibition of alcohol

Band production distribution and transportation of alcohol

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Political reform

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Governments should become more efficient and less corupt

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Direct primaries

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Voter select their parties candidates

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17th amendment

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US senators are elected by popular vote

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Initiative

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Voters can put bills before the legislation

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Referendum

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Voters can vote on bills directly

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Recall

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Photos can remove elected officials from office

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Republican youngest president
Took office after McKinley’s shot
Trustbuster
Square deal

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William H Taft

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Republican
Promise to continue Theodore Roosevelt ideas
Slow the progressive reforms lacked Theodore Roosevelt’s energy

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Gilded

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Chief center with thin layer of gold on the top

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