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34 Cards in this Set
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Progressivism
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Spirit of reform
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Mclure's Magazine
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Magazine made by a reform minded Scot
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Muckrakers
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"Raked" the muck of society
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Lincoln Steffens
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Journalist that exposed the politcal corruption
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Ida Tarbell
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Wrote about the many injustices of business
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Ray Stannard Baker
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Wrote about African-American injustice
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Theodore Dreider
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Wrote about work conditions
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Edith Wharton
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Elite society blocks out people not like them
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Herbert Croly
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Wrote how the government should help its people
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Florence Kelley
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Wrote against chile labor
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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Fire that killed over 140 people in a clothing factory
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Rose Schneiderman
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Women's right Union leader
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Freedom of contract
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Freedom to negotiate terms of employment
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Muller v. Oregon
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Case that had to do with a 10 hour work day
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Louis D. Brandeis
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Lawyer that argued in the Muller v. Oregon case
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Closed shop
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Place where all employees must be in a union
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Socialism
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Government owns the jobsites
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Samuel Gompers
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Led the American Federation of Labor
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International Ladies' Garment Workers Union
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Unionized women mostly in textile factories
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Open shop
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Nonunion workplace
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Industrial Workers of the World
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Opposed capitalism
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William "Big Bill" Haywood
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Leader of IWW
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Lawrence Veiller
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Attacked irresponsible tenement owners
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Daniel Burnham
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Leading architect that made a plan for Chicago
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Prohibition
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Ban on alcohol
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
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Spoke out against alcohol
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Billy Sunday
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Spoke against alcohol
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Frances Willard
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Led the WCTU
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Eighteenth Amendment
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Stopped distribution of alcohol
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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African- American leader
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Organization dedicated to ending racial discrimination
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National Urban League
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Fought for racial equality
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Society of American Indians
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Discussed rights of American Indians
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Amercanization
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Preparing immigrants for for U.S. citizenship
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