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How did industrialization change America?
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cities were crowded w/ new immigrants, bad working conditions, political system breaking down
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Rose Winslow
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was arrested for obstructing traffic and blocking sidewalks- picketing the wite house
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17th amendment
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provides for direct election of sentators
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18th amendment
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prohobition act. outlawed alchol
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19th amendment
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womens rights
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progressivism
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not a tightly organized political movement w/ specific set of reforms.- insted a collection of different ideas and activities
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Muckrackers
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groups of crusading journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption rote about progressive ideas
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Jacob Riis
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book- about how the other half lives-1890
described the proverty, disease and crime that afflicted many immigrant neighborhoods in NYC |
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Commission Plan
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citys govt would each be divided into several departments which would each be placed under the control of an expert commissioner
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Robert La Follette
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Governer- used his office/tried to attack the way political parties ran their conventions
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Direct primary
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all party members could vote for a candidate to run in the general election- declar a party
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Referndum
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allowed proposed legislation to be submited to the voters 4 approval
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recall
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allowed voter to demand a special election to remove an elected offical from office before his or her term had expired
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suffrage
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the right to vote
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Alice Paul
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Quacker social worker who headed NAWSA'S congressional committee had organized the washington march
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Temperance
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Movement which advocated the moderation or elimination of alchol emerged from these concerns
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prohobition
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laws banning the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alchol
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socalism
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the idea that the govt should own and operate industy forth community as a hole
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Problems in society that needed progressive reform
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crime disease illiteracy oroverty social problems
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Trace the beginnings of & reactions against progressinism
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being campanded w/ both political & social reforms
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Ida Tarbell
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published a series of articles critical od standard oil company
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Lincoln Steffens
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reported on vote stealing and corrupt pracitces of urban political machienes
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why did progressives want to reorganizecity govt?
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strong faith in science and technolgy
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what where robert La follette's ideas for parties and govt?
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pressured state legislature to reqire each party to hold a direct primary
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for what elctoral changes did La Follette and other progressives push?
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-intiative- allowed a group of citizens to introduce legislation & required the legislature to vote on it
-REFERENDUM- allowed proposed legislation to be submitted to the voters 4 approval -RECALL- allowed voters to demand a special election to remove an elected officl from office before his or her term and expired |
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impact of 17th amendment
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ended corruption
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orginized 1st womens rights convention
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elizabeth cady stanton and lucretia mott
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stantons first priorty for womens convention?
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womens right to vote
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why did the suffrage movement get off to a slow start?
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accused of being unfeminine and immoral
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Mary church Terrell
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strong about womens sufferage
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How did the debate over the 14th and 15th amendments split the sufferage movement in two?
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-amendment- right to vote NWSA
-State govt right to vote-AWSA |
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Susan B Anthony
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organized NWSM attemp to change discriminatory laws in NY complained about $
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NAWSA
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NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMEN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION- women politicaly active pass labor laws incuraged middle class to vote through wilsons slection in 1916
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Carrie catt
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NAWSA leader devolped winning plan
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what did social welfare focus
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reforming political system, crime, illiteracy, alchol abuse health and saftey
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laws passed because of social welfare
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minum wages child labor education laws. prohobition healt and saftey laws woker compensation
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health and saftey codes
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fire hazards, unsafe machinery working condidtions
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WCTU- beliefs about alchol
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womens christian temerance union - should be outlawded
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what did progressives believe about business
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wealth was concentrated in the hands of too few people
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Eugene Debs- socialist pary on the 1912 election
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congress passed a # of proposals to regulate the economy under pres. rossvelt taft and wilson
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TRs beliefs in the fields od international affairs
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US was in competiton w/' other nations of the world *only the fittest would survive- socail darwinis
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domestic affaiars
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the govt. should actively balance the needs of competing groups of american groups
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name givin to reform programs why he beleved
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square deal- to maintain efficnt society that could compete sucessfully against other nations
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us steal
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americas 1st billon $ corporation
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**** how was northern securities company formed and why?
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when the nation went into reccession
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** why did tr decided the nothern seccerities company had violated the sherman anti trust act?
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stock battle led to a creation* of private intrest threating world
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rulling of nothern securtites v. the us?
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Nothern scurities had indeed wiolated the shuman antitrust act- tr called it vitory success for him called trustbuster popularity raised
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TR's job ( thought)
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keep society operating effecently by preventing conflict b/w nations diff groups & their intrest HEAD MASTER
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how did he carry out his job dealing with the 1902 coal strike
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arbitration
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ARBITRATION
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sttlement imposed by an outside party
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new department congress created in 1903
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department of commerce and labor
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*bureau of corporations- what did they investigate
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the athority to incestigate corporations & issue reports on their activites--us steal privatly
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*gentlemans agreement- tr accepted
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the company would be advised privately & allowed to correct the problem w/o having to go to court
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*expediton act
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gave federal antitrust suits precedence on dockets of circut courts
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*herpburn act
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intended to strengthen the interstate commerce commission by giving the power to railroad rates
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purpose of interstate commerce commission and how successful was it?
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early effort to regulate the ralroad industry inefective b/c lact atnonty
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2 pieces of legislation were enacted due to the facts revealed in upton sinclairs the Jungle?
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pure food &drug act-- meat inspection act
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where tr put his stamp and his attitude about it...
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enviormental conservation * natural ressorcess where being used up
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*Newlands reclamation act
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authorized the use of federal funds from public land- sales to pay 4 irrigation & land projects
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gifford pinchot job
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head of us forest service
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tr did to enviorments
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talk w/ lumber companys-- added over 1000 thousands land-- parks
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Tr's legacy
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1st modern president cause bypassed congress--- changed the role of federal govt. &nature of presidency
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william howard taft
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succeded rossevelt-- said he could follow after him...
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Joseph cannon
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speaker of the house--- leader of republican party
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payne tariff
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cutt tarrifs hard and rasied some
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Richard Ballinger
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cibsercatice corporate lawyer
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ballinger pinchot controversy
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wanted to take a million acers and cut them and sell them for pocket money
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**syndicate
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business group, for personal profit
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** insubordination
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disobedience
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** childrens Bureau
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2nd important thing behind womens rights-- s federal angency similar to roosevelts bureau of corporations-- outlawed child labor
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* Mann Elkins act
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increased the reulatory powers of ICC
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progressive party-
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- nicknames bull moose party-- taft allianated so man people that it turned into a competion b/w 2 of the progressive people
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******New nationalism-- list
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1. excepted the econmic power of trust &wanted govt. to regulate them
2. wanted laws to prtect women & children in work place 3. supported workmans compesation 4. wanted federal trade commission to regulate indutry |
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underwood tariff
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reduced average tariff on imported goods to about 30 percent of the value of the goods or about hald the tariff reate of the 1890's
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New freedom*
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wilsons demostic policy freedom was more important than efficancy
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**icome tax-- what amendment began this
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16th amendment-- direct tax on the earnings od individuals & corporations to stimulate the economy during a reccession by lowering intrestrates
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**Federal reserve act---
INFLATION |
gave the board the right to fight inflation by raising intrestrates
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* clayton antitrust act
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banned tying agreements which required retailers who bought from one company to stop selling a competors product
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* federal Trade commisson
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to monitor american bisiness independent agency of govt. issued sess& dessiss orders of unfair companys
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keating owen child labor act
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prohibited the emplyment of children under the age of 14 in the facotries
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NAACP
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NATional association for the advancement of colored people-- attemp to end lynching & racial discrimination
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** adamson act
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established 8 hour workdays 4 railroad workers
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* federal farm loan act
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created 12 federal land banks to provide farmers w/ long-term loans at low intrest rates
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*muller v. Oregon
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case on womens working hours goes to supream cort weather or not # was good..--*1st time supream court relised how important women where to the home-- ruled- women couldnt be forced to work more than 10hrs a day in a landry or factory
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*margaret sanger
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public health nerse-- founded birth control clinic-- believed familys should know how many kids they can afford
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John Dewey
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father of public education
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* louis brandeis
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the atorney who defended the women in muller v oregon. LB went on to become the 1st jewish supreame court justice
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Josephine goldmark
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LBs sister who did all the research for the case
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