Ch. 22 Flashcards

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progressivism

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A movement to reform society to treat corruption, industrialization, and other social ills.

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RE Olds

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Created the first assembly-line, churning out five thousand automobiles a year.

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Model T

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The model Ford produced in 1908. Would be the model that made him famous.

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TIn Lizzie

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The name for the Model T. Was part of the attempt to democratize the automobile, making sure that everyone had the oppurtunity to buy one.

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United Fruit

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An organization of plantations and steamships that used the victory in the war against Spain for economic benefit.

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General Electric

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Established an industrial research laboratory which attracted experts. Led to the improvement of light bulbs, the cathrode-ray tube, early radio, and atomic theory.

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Frederick Winslow Taylor

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Though management should use a scientific approach to work managing. Worked to extract maximum efficiency from each worker.

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"Principles of Scientific Management"

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Taylor's proposed system. Management must take responsibility for job-related knowledge and classify it into rules. Second, management should standardize and control the workplace.

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Triangle Shirtwaist Co.

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Served as a prime example of the cost of industrialization. 146 people were killed in a fire because the manager locked the doors to keep unions out.

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WTUL

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Created to counter the business-sponsored English lessons, which taught people to obey the factory rules.

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RFD

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Rural Free Delivery was established to make farmers feel less isolated.

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Rockefeller Sanitary Commission

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Using new scientific knowledge, it launched a campaign that wiped out the hookworm disease.

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Newlands Act

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The government helped create massive irrigation systems across many western states. Places that used to be deserts were now blooming and adding produce to the national market.

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David Graham Phillips

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Published the novel, The Hungry Heart, to help women get their message across.

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Sheppard-Towner Act

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Provided funding for pediactric and materanl clinics.

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Margaret Sanger

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Promoted contraceptives, and was the prominent figure in the Women's Birth Control Movement.

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Niagara Movement

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Set in motion to work for equal rights and education for African Americans.

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NAACP

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Important civil rights organization that won a number of court cases which helped African Americans.

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Guinn v. US

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The Supreme Court ruled that the "grandfather clause", which limited blacks voting rights, was unconstitutional.

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Buchanon v. Worley

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The Supreme Court brought down a law in Louisville, Kentucky that required residentail segregation.

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padroni

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Labor agents that found immmigrant workers jobs and then deducted a fee from their pay checks.

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Leonidas Skliris

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The "czar of the Greeks" who found workers for the Utah Copper Company and the Western Pacific Railroad.

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Birds of Passage

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Temporary immigrants who would come to the United States to work and then return home every season with the money.

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Americanization

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Programs that employers put in place to erase the differences of immigrants by teaching them English.

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coyotes

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Labor agents that worked for corporations and ranches to find Mexican immigrants to employ.

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barrios

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Cultural centers for family life, foods, church, and festivals in the cities for Mexicans.

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Samuel Gompers

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Created the American Federation of Labor, the largest Union organization in the country. Focused on skilled male workers.

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IWW

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Attracting the greatest attention, the Industrial Workers of the World was open to everyone, regardless of skill, class, or race.

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Bill Haywood

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One of the founders of the IWW. Thought that workers could get their message across with a little sabotage.

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Five Dollar Day

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Henry Ford's idea to pay everyone 5 dollars one day out of the week in order to promote attendence and work ethic.

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Amoskeag

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A massive textile company that built its complex like a self-contained town so that nobody would every have to leave.

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Irving Berlin

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Russian immigrant who created ragtime music. Ragtime would set off a dance craze across the nation.

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DW Griffith

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Director who created the first movie spectacular, The Birth of a Nation.

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ASCAP

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The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. Protected musical rights and royalties.

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Ashcan School

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Realist painters who wanted "to paint truth and to paint it with strength and fearlessness and individuality".