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progressicism
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such problems aroused a spirit of reform known as this.
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1McClure's Magazine
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another nationonal magazine founded in 1893
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muckrakers
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investigative journalist group was known as this
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Lincoln Steffens
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marked the real begining of this style of journalism
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Ida Tarbell
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Ran the History of the Standard Oil Company add
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Ray Stannard Baker
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toured the nation examining the plight of African Americans
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Theodore Dreiser
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depicted workers brutalized by greedy business owners
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Edith Wharton
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Wrote about how the closedmindedness of elite society leads a good hearted heroine
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Herbert Croly
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Argued that government should use its regulatory and taxation powers
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Florence Kelley
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Worked tirelessly for this cause
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
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A womens trade union leagure organizer, argured that only a strong working class movement could bring real change to the workpleace
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Freedom of Contract
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or the freedom to negotiate the terms of their employment.
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Muller v oregon
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an employer challenged the 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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argued a big case
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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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or the system under which the government
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Samuel Gompers
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the AFL grew fourfold from 1900 to 1914
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International Ladies' Garment Workers Union
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One AFL union that tried to organize unskilled workers
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Open Shop
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or nonunion workplace
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Industrial WOrkers of the World
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opposed capitalism
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William "Big Bull" Haywood
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made claims for the working class
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Lawrence Veiller
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A settlement House
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Daniel Burnham
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a leading architect and city planner
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Prohibition
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A ban on the manufacture
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Woman's Christian Temperance
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Led the crusade agianst alchohol
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Billy SUnday
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a former ballplayer turned Presbvyterian evangelist
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Fances WIllard
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headed the Wctu from 1879 to 1898
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Eighteenth Amendment
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Which barred the manufature
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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One of the most influential African American leaders
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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an orginazation dedicated to ending racial disrimination
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Natuonal Urban League
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fought for racial equality
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Society of American Indians
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most of tehm middle class proffesionals formed this
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Americanization
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a process of preparing foreighn born residents for full U.S. citizenship
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Rose Schneiderman
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A womens trade union League organizer
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