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progressive era

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a time of widespread social, political, and economic reforms to address the ills of society in the US.
1897-1920

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immigration

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national origins act of 1924

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created a quota system that only allowed entry to 2% of the total number of people of each nationality in America.
This information was based of the 1890 national census.
This system favored immigrants from Western Europe and prohibited immigrants from Asia

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jane adaams

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injustice: immigrant rights, living and working conditions, child labor

ideology: quaker, equality

actions: founded Hull House (settlement house with job opportunities, basic needs, english classes, daycare, young edu. it helped immigrants start life in america, it did not provide housing)

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quotas

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a fixed share of something that a person or group is entitled to receive
ex: The national origins system created a quota

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upton sinclair

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injustice: chicago meatpacking industry, dangerous working conditions, exposing market economy

ideology: muckracker (exposing), socialist, Christian, democrat

actions: wrote The Jungle (book exposing bad conditions in meat packing industry, it created a labor reform and ended up helping pass the Food and Drug Act)

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muckracker

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a person who searches for and tries to expose corruption, scandal, or other wrongdoing. they ‘rake up the muck’ or ‘dig up the dirt’
examples: upton sinclair

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labor unions

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an organized group of workers, often with shared trade, whose goal it is to protect interests and rights of workers.

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skilled labor

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highly trained, experienced, and educated part of workforce

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unskilled labor

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work that does not require experience or intense training
ex: assembly line, factory work

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socialism

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clara lemlich

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injustice: women’s suffrage, worker’s rights (textile factories)

ideology: communist, men and women equal, progressive

action: international ladies’ garment workers union, speech, inspired uprisings and strikes, stirred up trouble in factories = got blacklisted

uprising of 20,000
- strike of garment workers
- in NYC
- better working conditions and wages for women in factories

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eugene debs

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injustice/ideology: helped unskilled workers, no capitalism, socialist

actions: pullman strike (train workers), founded International Workers of the World (IWW)

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knights of labor

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labor union for better working conditions

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AFL

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American Federation of Labor
- organized labor unions
- advocated for skilled workers
- started by samuel gompers

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Samuel Gompers

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injustice: skilled workers rights

ideology: pro capitalism for fair wages and conditions (negotiating)

actions: founded AFL

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Mother Mary Jones

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injustice: better working conditions

ideology: socialist, more gov’t oversight, liberal, use voice

actions:
- lead the march of the millchildren (PA to NY)
- helped organized the International Workers of the World (IWW)
- part of the knights of labor (left)

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jim crow

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booker t. washington

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injustice: racism, AA being economically unequal

ideology: economic equality over social equality

actions:
- founded tuskegee university (hands on, not liberal arts, reenforced ideology, all african american)
- published 1901 his autobiography call Up From Slavery
- gave speech to white people at convention called Atlanta Compromise

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NAACP

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founded by Ida B. Wells-barnett in 1909

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WEB DuBois

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ideology: more communism, african americans need better traditional education (liberal arts), talented tenth would need community, fight racism now/head on

actions:
founding member of NAACP - - writer for ‘Crisis’
Niagara Movement
- precurser to NAACP

pan africanism
- why should we try to get into a society that doesn’t want us?

  • legal work
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Niagara Movement

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Ida B Wells-Barnett

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injustice: civil rights, women’s suffrage, anti lynching, racial equality

ideology: journalist, african american

actions:
founded NAACP in 1909
wrote “Red Record’
- account of murders by lynching
- eye opening book
faced discrimination
- tried to sue a train company

march of 1913
- suffrage parade
- refused to go to back b/c of race

‘Free Speech’
- newspaper

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lynching

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African person does something or nothing socially not ok, then are killed (mob)
- no gov’t involved or court case

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segregation

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jim corw laws, separate, discriminate
- the separation of people

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assimilation

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being the same and blending into the dominant culture/changing yourself

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19th amendment

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ratified 1920, the right for women to vote

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NAWSA

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national american women suffrage association
- formed by elizabeth cady stanton, lucy stone, susan b anthony
- combined two groups
- goals: womens suffrage, womens support

actions: winning plan, society plan, helped ratify the 19th amendment

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suffrage

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the right to vote

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alice paul

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injustice: gender equality

ideology: quaker, liberal, fight on federal level

actions:
-picketted white house often
- called ‘Silent Sentinals’
- created NWP
- arrested and force fed
- helped pass the 19 amendment
drafted ERA

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carrie chapman catt

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injustice: women’s suffrage

ideology: liberal, participated in marches, thought gov’t should use power to help women, became Jewish advocate

actions:
- pres. of NAWSA
- created the Winning Plan
- traveled the world to edu
- conventions
- suffrage = state by state basis
- believed we didn’t need ERA

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margaret sanger

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injustice: women’s health

ideology: nurse, edu/knowledge at body

actions:
- wrote ‘Women Rebel’
- pamphet/book
- abt reproductive health/system
- Cornstock Laws
- postal service cant deliver pamphets bc to riske

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New Women

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temperance

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18th amendment
1919 ratified
Began prohibition
Alcohol illegal in US

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trust busting

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Sherman Antitrust Act
July 1890 passed by congress
Trusts and monopolies illegal - hard to enforce

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conservation

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President Teddy Roosevelt
Concerned for envirn.
Inspo. By US naturalists

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