Ch.22

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Progressivism

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This 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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Ransom E. Olds

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He used the assembly-line system that foreshadowed later techniques.

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Model T

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Ford introduced this four cylinder, 20-horsepower Tin Lizzie, that cost 840 dollars in 1908.

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Tin Lizzie

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A common model of car Henry Ford produced.

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United Fruit

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This was an empire of plantations and steamships in the Caribbean that exploited opportunities created by victory in the war with Spain.

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General Electric

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This company founded the first industrial research laboratory.

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Frederick Winslow Taylor

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He was an inventive mechanical engineer that strove to extract maximum efficiency from each worker.

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"Principles of Scientific Management"

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In this book Taylor wanted management to take responsibility for job-related knowledge and classify it. Also, he wanted management to enforce standardization of methods, adoption of the best implements and working conditions, and cooperation.

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Triangle Shirtwaist Company

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A devastating fire here caused nationwided attention on unsafe working conditions.

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WTUL

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This was a trade union that supported many major unions including the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Strike.

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RFD

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Rural free delivery began in 1896 helped diminish the farmer's sense of isolation and changed farm life.

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Rockefeller Sanitary Commission

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This was a sanitation campaign that eventually wiped out the hookworm disease.

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Newlands Act

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The secretary of the interior formed the U.S. Reclamation Service, which gathered a staff of thousands of engineers and technicians to deal with irrigation problems.

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David Graham Phillips

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A novelist troubled by the woman's problem, depicted a husband's oppression of his wife in The Hungry Heart, published in 1909.

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Sheppard-Towner Act

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This helped fund maternity and pediatric clinics.

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Margaret Sanger

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She was a major influence in the Birth Control Movement.

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Niagara Movement

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This claimed for African Americans every single right that belongs to a freeborn American, political, civil and

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NAACP

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This important civil rights organization was founded because of murders by white mobs against blacks.

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Guinn v. US

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The Supreme Court overturned a grandfather clause that kept African Americans from voting in Oklahoma.

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Buchanan v. Worley

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This struck down a law in Louisville, Kentucky, that required residential segregation.

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Padroni

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These were labor agents among the Italians, Greeks, and Syrians recruited immigrant workers, found them jobs, and deducted a fee from their wages.

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Leonidas Skliris

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He provided workers for the Utah Copper Company and the Western Pacific Railroad.

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Birds of passage

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Migrants that commuted to America and returned home every slack season.

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Americanization

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This was the attempt of companies to assimilate the new immigrants into American society.

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Coyotes

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Labor agents that recruited Mexican workers.

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Barrios

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These were enclaves in the cities that became cultural islands of family life, foods, church, and festivals.

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Samuel Gompers

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He created the American Federation of Labor.

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IWW

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This union tried to organzie the unskilled and foreign-born laborers who worked in the mass production industries.

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Bill Haywood

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He was one of the founders of the IWW.

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Five Dollar Day

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Henry Ford was the first one to start this.

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Amoskeag

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This was an enormous complex of factories, warehouses, canals, and machinery.

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Irving Berlin

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He was a famous singer during this time.

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DW Griffith

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He produced the first movie spectacular, 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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Robert Henri and the realist painters were known by their critics as this.