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19 Cards in this Set
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"muckrakers"
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journalists and novelists who wrote about urban corruption and wrongdoing
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Robert La Follette
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progressive politician; won Wisconsin governorship as independent and oversaw several reforms; later a US senator
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Anti Saloon League
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political advocacy group founded in 1895; signaled a new phase in the movement to ban the sale of alcohol
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Ida Wells-Barnett
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eloquent speaker, writer, and civil rights activist who championed anti-lynching legislation
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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African-American scholar and civil rights leader; author of The Souls of Black Folk
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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major civil rights organization founded during the progressive era
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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leader of the women's movement; drive for women's suffrage in the early 20th century
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Margaret Sanger
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founder of birth control movement; leading feminist
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Industrial Workers of the World
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occasionally radical union discredited by use of violence
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Eugene V. Debs
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socialist labor leader whose surprising showing in the 1912 presidential election illustrated the growing frustration of many workers
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"muckrakers"
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journalists and novelists who wrote about urban corruption and wrongdoing
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T. Roosevelt
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youthful successor to William McKinley in 1901; pushed an agenda of progressive reform
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W. Taft
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Roosevelt’s hand-picked successor for president; later served as Supreme Court justice
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Hepburn Act
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legislation that strengthened government power to regulate railroads
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National Reclamation Act
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sold public land and used the revenues for water management and dam projects
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Progressive Party
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national third-party formed around Roosevelt’s presidential candidacy in 1912
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W. Wilson
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Democratic president whose election in 1912 ushered in a second wave of progressive reforms on the national level
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Federal Trade Commission
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agency to ensure fair trade and practices
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Louis Brandeis
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jurist who pioneered use of sociology and other social sciences in arguing legal cases
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