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34 Cards in this Set
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Progressivism
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A spirit of reform.
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McClure's Magazine
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A national magazine that was founded in 1893 by the reform minded Scots-Irish immigrant s.s. McClure.
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Muckrakers
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They "raked up" and exposed the muck, or filth, in society.
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Lincoln Steffens
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He was a journalist for McClure's Magazine and he wrote "Tweed Days in St. Louis".
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Ray Stannard Baker
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He was a writer who toured the nation examining the plight of African Americans.
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Theodore Dreiser
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He depicted workers brutalized by greedy business owners.
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Edith Wharton
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She wrote about how the closed mindedness of elite society leads a good-darted heroine to social isolation and despair.
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Herbert Croly
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He argued that the government should use its regulatory and taxation powers to promote the welfare of all its citizens.
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Florence Kelley
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She worked tirelessly for the cause of labor laws.
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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It killed 140 workers who were locked inside the building working when the fire broke out in the building.
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Rose Schneiderman
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She was a women's trade league organizer who argued that only a strong working-class movement could bring real change to the workplace.
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Freedom of Contract
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The freedom of employees to negotiate their terms of employment.
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Muller v. Oregon
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An employer challenged teh 10-hour-workday law that Florence Kelley had helped push through the Oregon legislature.
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Louis D. Brandeis
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He was the layer who argued the case of Muller v. Oregon.
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Closed shop
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A workplace where all the employees must belong to a union.
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Socialism
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The system under which the government or worker cooperatives won most factories, utilities, and transportation and communications systems.
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Samuel Gompers
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He was the leader of the AFL who used organizational structure as trusts.
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International Ladies' Garment Workers Union
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It sought to unionize workers employed in sewing shops.
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Open Shop
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A nonunion workplace.
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Industrial Workers of the World
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It was a union opposed to capitalism.
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Wiliam "Big Bill" Haywood
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He led the IWW and made claims for the working class.
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Lawrence Veiller
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A settlement-house worker attacked irresponsible tenement owners.
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Daniel Burnham
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A leading architect and city planner who produced a magnificent plan for redesigning Chicago.
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Prohibition
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A ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. It closed most of the nations saloons. DRY TOWNS
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
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It led the crusade against alcohol.
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Billy Sunday
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A former ballplayer turned Presbyterian Evangelist, who preached that saloons were the parent of crimes and the mother of sins.
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Frances Willard
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She headed the WCTU and eventually made it a powerful national force for temperance.
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Eighteenth Amendment
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It batted the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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He was one of the most influential African American leaders to emerge during this period.
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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It was an organization that was dedicated to ending racial discrimination.
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National Urban League
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It also fought for racial equality.
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Society of American Indians
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They discussed ways to improve civil rights, education, health, and local government.
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Americanization
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It was a process of preparing foreign-born residents for full U.S. citizenship.
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Ida Tarbell
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She wrote for McClure's and wrote the first installment of the history of the standard oil company.
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