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31 Cards in this Set
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Progressivism
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wanting to cure problems of urbanization and industrialization
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Muckrackers
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raked up mud and exposed muck or filth from the streets.
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Lincoln Steffens
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journalist who wrote some of the real first peices of real journalisim.
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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 Wharthton
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closed mindedness of elite society leads a good hearted heroine to soial isolation.
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Herbert Croly
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argued that the gov should use its regulatory and taxation powers to promote the welfare of all its students.
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Ida trumbell
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wrote history of the standard oil company.
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Theodore Dreiser
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depicted brutalized workers by greedy business owners.
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Edith Wharthon
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wrote about closed minded society leaders.
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Herbert Croly
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argued that the gov should use its power to look out for welfare of all citizens.
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Florence Kelly
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reformer for women working conditions.
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Freedom of contract
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10 hour work, better conditions
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Muller v Organ
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sup court case
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Louis D Brandeis
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lawyer
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Closed shop
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union
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socialism
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gov ownes every thing, (no small business)
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Samuel Gompers
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AFL founder
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ILGWU
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union for women workers.
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open shop
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nonunion work place
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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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made clames for the working class
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lawrence veiller
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attached tentement owners
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Daniel Burnham
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anchitect and city planner.
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Billy Sunday
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former ball player.
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Frances willard
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creater of the WCTU
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18th ammendment
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prohebition
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NAACP
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national association for the advance placement of colored people
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National Urban League
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fought for = race rights.
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Society of American Indians
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wanted basic rights
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Americanization
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forigners wanting citezship.
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