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42 Cards in this Set
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Thorstein Veblen
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He wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class in 1899 where he presented a new view of the parasitic leisure class engaging in making money for money's sake rather than making goods to satisfy real needs.
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“rule of reason”
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The doctrine that held that only those combinations that "unreasonably" restrained trade were illegal.
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recall
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A system which allowed voting citizens to remove elected, corrupt officials from office.
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Ballinger-Pinchot affair
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An affair between Gifford Pinchot, the Forest Service Chief, and Richard Achilles Ballinger, the Secretary of the Interior, which left the Republican Party split, contributing to their defeat in the election of 1912.
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Eugene V. Debs
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An American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial workers of the World (IWW), as well as candidate for President of the United States as a member of the Social Democratic Party in 1900, and later as a member of the Socialist Party of America in 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920.
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Pure Food and Drug Act
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A United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines.
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Gifford Pinchot
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The chief of the Forest Service under Roosevelt who helped to create and preserve national parks and forests.
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The Jungle
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A book written in 1906 by author Upton Sinclair that brought to light the terrible working conditions of the meat packing industry. The subject matter of this book initiated government actionin addressing these conditions.
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Lincoln Steffens
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A brilliant New York reporter who published a series of articles unmasking the corrupt alliances between big businesses and municipal government in the magazine,'McClure', which hoped to expose the evils in American society.
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Seventeenth Amendment
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Two senators shall be elected by popular vote by their state for six years, and shall have one vote in the senate. This was change brought about by the increasing pressures by the people who wanted popular voting.
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Hiram Johnson
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Hiram W. Johnson was elected the Republican governor of California in 1910. He helped break the dominant grip of the Southern Pacific Railroad on California politics, and then set up a political machine of his own.
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Northern Securities case
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When Roosevelt, as a trust buster, attacked the Northern Securities Company, a railroad holding company. The railway promoters appealed to the Supreme Court, which upheld Roosevelt's antitrust suit and ordered the Northern Securities Company to be disbanded. The decision angered big business but enhanced Roosevelt's reputation as a trust buster.
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John Muir
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A Naturalist who advised President T.R.. Was One of the first naturalists who influenced policy.
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Triangle Shirtwaist fire
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Accident that occurred that killed 146 workers due to violations in fire code.
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conservation
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philosophy that supports preservation of the heritage of a nation or culture.
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Old Guard
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Frances Willard
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Was elected president of the United States Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1879, a position which she held for life. She created the Formed Worldwide W.C.T.U. in 1883, and was elected its president in 1888.
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Women's Trade Union League
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A U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women formed in 1903 to support the efforts of women to organize labor unions and to eliminate sweatshop conditions.
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Theodore Dreiser
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As a novelist, he used his blunt prose to batter promoters and profiteers.
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Eighteenth Amendment
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Passed in 1919, this would temporarily floor demon rum.
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initiative
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Direct primary elections in order to undercut pary bosses and bypass corrupt state legislatures. A main objective of progressives.
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dollar diplomacy
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Taft's approach to foreign policy. Using American investments to boost American political interests abroad. Replaced big stick policy and was especially used in the Caribbean and Manchuria.
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Richard Ballinger
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Yosemite National Park
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Robert M. La Follette
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a progressive politician who served as governor of Wisconsin in 1901-1905, and during this time he instituted many progressive reforms.
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Hepburn Act
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the act which gave the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to control railroad rate, inspect company books, and assign uniform standard bookkeeping.
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Jacob Riis
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Journalist for the New York Sun, wrote How the Other Half Lives, depicting the lives of those that lived in the new york slums.
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Muckrakers
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a term used by President Roosevelt to describe sensationalistic journalists and authors who's writing won wide circulation due to the content of scandalous schemes and other stories writting purely to win circulation.
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Ida Tarbell
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One of the most eminent women in the muckraking movement and one of the most respected business historians of her generation. She published a history of the Standard Oil Company, the “Mother of Trusts” in 1904. She also joined others to purchase the American Magazine.
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Elkins Act
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The beginning of a effective railroad legislation. It was aimed primarilt at the rebate evil. Heavy fines could now be imposed both on the railroads that gave rebates and on the shippers that accepted them.
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Upton Sinclair
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His works reflect socialistic views. Upton Sinclair stated in 1903 that "My Cause is the Cause of a man who has never yet been defeated, and whose whole being is one all devouring, God-given holy purpose". Among Sinclair's most famous books is THE JUNGLE (1906). It launched a government investigation of the meatpacking plants of Chicago, and changed the food laws of America. Sinclair's works are still read, although writers with political and social ideals are not popular in the West - or East.
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Lochner v. New York
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pitted a conservative activist judiciary against a reform-minded legislature, remains one of the most important and most frequently cited cases in Supreme Court history. In this concise and readable guide, Paul Kens shows us why the case remains such an important marker in the ideological battles between the free market and the regulatory state.
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referendum
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New Nationalism
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Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive political philosophy during the 1912 election. The central issue he argued was human welfare versus property rights. He insisted that only a powerful federal government could regulate the economy and guarantee social justice. Roosevelt believed that the concentration in industry was not necessarily bad, if the industry behaved responsibly. He wanted executive agencies (not the courts) to regulate business. In terms of policy, the New Nationalism supported child labor laws and minimum wage laws for women.
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Nelson W. Aldrich
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A Rhode Island Senator who led the senatorial reactionaries whom added hundreds of upward tariff revisions to the moderately reductive bill passed by the House.
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Newlands Act
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Passed in 1902, it authorized Washington to collect money from the sale of public lands in the west and use these funds for the development of irrigation projects.
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William Howard Taft
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The only former president to serve on the supreme court, he made federal courts more powerful in shaping national policy.
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Sierra Club
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The oldest and largest environmental organization in the U.S., founded in 1892. It aided in the establishment of many national parks, including Glacier, Mount Rainier, and Yosemite valley.
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Florence Kelley
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Muller v. Oregon
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Henry Demarest Lloyd
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He wrote Story of a Great Monopoly and Wealth Against Commonwealth against the Railroads and Oil company.
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preservationism
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To preserve a historic structure from demolition.
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