Chapter 17 Vocabulary

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Progressivism

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a broad school of international social and political philosophies .

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Florence Kelley

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social and political reformer from Philadelphia. Her work with children's rights is widely regarded today

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Prohibition

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legal prevention of the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages

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Women's Christian Temperance Union

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Founded in Fredonia, New York in 1873, the group spearheaded the crusade for prohibition. Members advanced their cause by entering saloons, singing, praying, and urging saloonkeepers to stop selling alcohol.

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Frances Willard

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American temperance leader and reformer, b. Churchville, N.Y., grad. Northwestern Female College, 1859. She was president of Evanston College for Ladies and dean of women at Northwestern Univ. After leaving the university, she helped organize (1874) the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and in 1879 became its president.

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Carry Nation

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American temperance advocate

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Anti-Saloon Lague

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U.S. organization working for prohibition of the sale of alcoholic liquors

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Henry George

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an American political economist and the most influential proponent of the "Single Tax" on land, also known as the land value tax. He was the author of Progress and Poverty, written in 1879

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Edward Bellamy

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Bellamy himself founded and edited the New Nation (1891-94), a weekly. Equality, a sequel to Looking Backward, appeared in 1897.

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muckracker

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a group of American investigative reporters, novelists and critics from the late 1800s to early 1900s, who investigated and exposed societal issues such as conditions in slums and prisons, factories, insane asylums (as they were called at the time), sweatshops, mines, child labor and unsanitary conditions in food processing plants.

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Fredrick WInslow Taylor

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an American mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency

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Maria Mitchell

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American astronomer and educator, b. Nantucket, Mass. Mitchell taught school in Nantucket, and later became a librarian.

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National Association of Colored Women

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established in Washington, D.C., USA, by the merger in 1896 of the National Federation of Afro-American Women, the Women's Era Club of Boston, and the National League of Colored Women of Washington, DC, as well as smaller organizations that had arisen from the African-American women's club movement.

Founders of the NACW included Harriet Tubman, Frances E.W. Harper, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, and Mary Church Terrell. Its two leading members were Josephine Ruffin and Mary Church Terrell.

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Upton Sinclair

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The Jungle

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The Jungle

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Upton Sinclair

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Square Deal

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President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program primarily aimed at helping middle class citizen

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Trust-Buser

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government activities designed to break up trusts or monopolies.

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Elkins Act

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strengthened the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 by imposing heavy fines on railroads offering rebates and on the shippers accepting them.

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Meat Inspection Act

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a United States federal law that authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to inspections and condemn any meat product found unfit for human consumption.

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Fighting bob la follette

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n American politician who served as a U.S. Congressman, the 20th Governor of Wisconsin (1901-1906), and Republican Senator from Wisconsin (1905-1925). He ran for President of the United States as the nominee of his own Progressive Party in 1924, carrying Wisconsin and 17% of the national popular vote.

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keating-Owen Act

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Wick's Bill, was a statute enacted by the U.S. Congress which sought to address the perceived evils of child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods manufactured by children.

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Louis D Brandeis

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an American litigator, Supreme Court Justice, advocate of privacy, and developer of the Brandeis Brief.

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initiative

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the originating of a law or constitutional amendment by popular petition.

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referendum

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the principle or practice of referring measures proposed or passed by a legislative body to the vote of the electorate for approval or rejection.

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recall

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to bring back from memory; recollect; remember

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Susan B Anthony

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National American Woman Suffrage Association

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National American Woman Suffrage Association

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Susan B Anthony