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Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
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the first African American to receive a doctorate at Harvard; believed that education was meaningless without equality; supported political equality for African Americans by helping to form the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
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What is the Supreme Court case "Plessy vs. Ferguson"?
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Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" did not violate the 14th amendment, thus upholding the Jim Crow laws of the era
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What is the Progressive Movement?
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it used government to reform problems created by industrialization; aimed to return control of the government to the people, restore economic opportunities, and correct injustices in American life
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What were the progressive reforms at the city government level?
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council-manager type of government where a manager would run each of the city's departments; city councils were replaced with commissions
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What were the progressive accomplishments at the state government level?
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a movement to protect workers and end child labor; limited working hours to 10 hours per day for men and women; reformed electionsby adopting the referendum, the initiative, and the recall
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Define initiative, referendum, and recall
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initiative - a bill originated by the people rather than lawmakers, that could be placed on the ballot through petition.
referendum - a vote on the initiative, where the voters, not the lawmakers, accepted or rejected the initiative. recall - enabled voters to remove public officials from elected positions by forcing them to face another election before the end of their term, if the voters asked for it |
