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23 Cards in this Set
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Progressivism
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The movement in the late 1800s to increase democracy in America by curbing the power of the corporation.
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Populism
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Farm-based movement of the late 1800s that arose mainly in the area from Texas to the Dakotas and grew into a joint effort between farmer and labor groups against big business and machine-based politics.
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Jacob Riis
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A Danish immigrant, he became a reporter who pointed out the terrible conditions of the tenement houses of the big cities where immigrants lived during the late 1800s. He wrote How The Other Half Lives in 1890.
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Muckrakers
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This term applies to newspaper reporters and other writers who pointed out the social problems of the era of big business. The term was first given to them by Theodore Roosevelt.
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Ida Tarbell
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A leading muckraker and magazine editor, she exposed the corruption of the oil industry with her 1904 work A History of Standard Oil.
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Lincoln Steffens
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Writing for McClure's Magazine, Steffens criticized the trend of urbanization with a series of articles under the title Shame of the Cities.
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The Jungle
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This 1906 work by Upton Sinclair pointed out the abuses of the meat packing industry. The book led to the passage of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act.
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Robert "Battling Bob" La Follette
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Member of the House, senator and Governor of the state of Wisconsin
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Direct Primary
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An election that is open to all votes and all parties, which decides on the candidates of a party.
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Referendum
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When the voters decide on an issue that was previously rejected by the state's lawmakers.
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Initiative
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Citizens can develop and vote on a law that the state legislature chooses not to consider.
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Recall
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When the citizens decide to remove a public official from office due to incompetence or failure to do the job.
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Secret Ballot
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Voters do not reveal who they vote for or how they vote on an issue because their decision is made in private. This keeps the election fair and free from threat or intimidation.
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Seventeenth Amendment
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Passed in 1913, this amendment to the Constitution calls for the direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures.
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National Woman Suffrage Association
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From 1869, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded the ____________________________________________________. Cady Stanton served as its president until 1892.
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Booker T. Washington
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Author of Up from Slavery (1901), he led the Tuskegee Movement, which stressed economic progress for blacks instead of pursuing civil rights
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William E. B. Du Bois
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Editor of The Crisis and author of The Souls of Black Folk (1903), _________________ was one of the most influential civil rights leaders of the early 1900s. He urged blacks to stand up for civil rights as part of the Niagara Movement
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NAACP
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Founded by W.E.B. Du Bois, The ___________ ________________ _______________ ______________ ________________ emerged out of the Niagara Movement in 1909. It worked for equal rights for all Americans, but it failed to achieve lasting civil rights legislation during the early 1990s.
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United Mine Workers
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A 1902 coal worker's strike called for an eight-hour work day and higher wages. Theodore Roosevelt stepped in and threatened the use of troops to settle the strike. It was the first time the government stepped in a labor dispute.
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Pure Food & Drug Act
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This law requires manufacturers to tell the truth about their food and drug products.
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Bull Moose Party
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The Republicans were badly split in the 1912 election, so Roosevelt broke away forming his own Progressive Party (or __________ ________ __________ because he was "fit as a ______ _________..."). His loss led to the election of Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson, but he gained more third party votes than ever before.
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Federal Reserve Act
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Sparked by the Panic of 1893 and 1907, the 1913 ________ _____________ _____ created a Banking System, which issued paper money controlled by government banks.
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Clayton Anti-trust Act
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- The law allowed President Wilson greater trust-busting powers than any president before him.
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