American History Progressive Era Flashcards

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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

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March 25, 1911, the ___________ in New York City caught fire. Many were trapped inside due to unsafe working conditions. This tragedy prompted New York to pass a series of laws regulating factories and protecting workers.

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Jane Adams

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Leader of the settlement house movements; created Hull House.

She argued for worker's rights and said that each individual's well-being depends on the well-being of all. Urged the privileged middle class to take the lead in demanding better conditions in factories and immigrant slums.

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John Dewey

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A philosopher who believed the public school could provide social order. He saw the schools as potent engines of social change.

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Robert La Follette and the "Wisconsin Idea"

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_________ was a governor of Wisconsin, who with his administration adopted the direct primary system, set up a railroad regulatory commission, increased corporate taxes and limited campaign spending. He also set up a legislative reference library so lawmakers wouldn't be solely dependent on corporate lobbyists for factual information.

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Booker T. Washington in Contrast to William Monroe Trotter, Ida Wells Barnett, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Niagara Movement

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Washington was an accomodationist, was for patience and emphasis on manual skills.

Du Bois demanded full racial equality, including educational opportunities open to whites and called on blacks to resist all forms of racism.
Ida Wells was a crusader against lynching.

Blacks led under Du Bois would have conferences at Niagara falls and those participating in the movement eventually formed the NAACP.

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Alice Paul and the Woman's Party

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______ took on the strategies of militant British suffragists and in 1913, founded the Congressional Union, later renamed the Woman's party to pressure Congress to enact a woman's suffrage amendment.

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William Hayward and the Industrial Workers of the World

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Founded in 1905 by _________, a compelling orator and hardworking miner. They were a union that targeted the most exploited workers and led mass strikes. "Wobblies"

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Theodore Roosevelt and the coal miner's strike of 1902

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The United Mine Workers Union called a strike to gain higher wages, shorter hours and recognition as a union.

After five months, _________ acted. He summoned both sides to the white house and threatened to take over the mines. _________used ________ as strikebreakers.

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Pure food and Drug Act

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outlawed the sale of adulterated foods or drugs and required accurate ingredient levels.

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Meat Inspection Act

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Imposed strict sanitary rules on meat packers and set up a federal meat-inspection system.

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Gifford Pinchot and the conservationists

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Was for the planned, regulated use of forest lands for public and commercial purposes. Many wilderness advocates warned his approach would despoil wilderness areas.

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New Nationalism and New Freedom

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__________ proposed by Teddy Roosevelt to engage the federal government in reform. New corporate order would be here to stay, but big business would be strictly regulated in the public interest.

_______, proposed by _______, was against the new corporate order. He wanted to evoke an era of small government, small business, and free competition.

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Louis Brandeis and Muller V. Oregon

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The supreme court held up this law for women laundry workers. Lawyer ____________ defended he constitutionality of it and offered economic, medical and sociological evidence of how long hours harmed women workers. Later nominated by Wilson to the supreme court.

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Sixteenth Amendment
Nineteenth Amendment
Seventeenth Amendment
Eighteenth Amendment

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Gives congress the authority to impose income tax

Grants women the right to vote

Requires the direct election of U.S senators by voters

Prohibits the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors.

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Margret Sanger and Birth Control

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Began her crusade for birth control in 1914. She coined the term birth control and opened the nation's first birth control clinic in Brooklyn and founded the American Birth control League.