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35 Cards in this Set
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progressivism
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Reflected worry about the state of society, the effects of industrialization and urbanization, social disorder, political corruption, and a host of other issues.
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RE Olds
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Automobile maker
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Model T
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First commercially available vehicle
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Tin lizzie
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Model T
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United Fruit
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One of the trusts that was rampant
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General Electric
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Another trust
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Frederick Winslow Taylor
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Wrote Principles of Scientific management
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Principles of Scientific Management
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Principals of enforcement
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Triangle Shirtwaist Co.
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Where the big fire was. Showed how bad working conditions were
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WTUL
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Women's Trade Union League, pushed for women's rights in working place
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RFD
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The postal system for the farmers.
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Rockefeller Sanitary Commission
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Began a campaign in 1909 that wiped out the hookworm disease
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Newlands Act
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Formed the US Reclamation Service
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David Graham Phullips
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Wrote about female oppression in The Hungry Heart
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Sheppard-Towner act
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Gave health benefits to newborns and pregnant women
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Margaret Sanger
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Advocated for birth control.
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Niagara Movement
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Formed the NAACP
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NAACP
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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Guinn V US
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Overturned the Grandfather Clause
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Buchanon v Worley
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Struck down law in Louisville that required segregation
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padroni
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Recruited immigrants and took their money
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Leonidas Skliris
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Provided workers for the Utah Copper Company
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Birds of Passage
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Immigrants who came to work and get money to return home
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Americanization
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The process of becoming an American
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Coyotes
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recruited Mexican Workers
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barrios
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Mexican communities that harbored their heritage
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Samuel Gompers
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Founder of the AFL
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IWW (Wobblies)
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Like the Knights of Labor, but never got a lot of members
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Bill Haywood
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Was part of the IWW
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Five Dollar Day
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The guaranteed wage for a worker. Revolutionary
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Amoskeag
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Textile mills
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Irving Berlin
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Composer
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DW Griffith
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Film Director
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ASCAP
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Music and arts
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Ashcan School
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School to get ASCAP guys.
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