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33 Cards in this Set
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What is progressivism?
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Reform movement of the early 1900s concerned with cursing problems of urbanization and industrialization.
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What is McClure's Magazine?
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Progressive magazine that exploded corruption in politics and businesses.
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What are muckrakers?
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Investigative journalists who wrote about corruption in business and politics, hoping to bring about reform.
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Who is Lincoln Steffens?
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marked the real beginning of this style of journalism.
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Who is Ida Tarbell?
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In November 1902 McClure's ran the first installment of "History of the Standard Oil Company" by Ida Tarbell.
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What is Ray Standard Baker?
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toured the nation examining the plight of African Americans.
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Who is Theodore Dreiser?
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depicted workers brutalized by greedy business owners.
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Who is Edith Wharton?
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wrote about how the closed- mindedness of elite society leads a good hearted heroine to social isolation and despair.
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Who is Herbert Croly?
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argued that the government should use its regulatory and taxation powers to promote the welfare of all its citizens.
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Who is Florence Kelley?
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Reformer Florence Kelley worked tirelessly for this case.
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What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
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Rose Schneiderman, a women's Trade Union League organizer, argued that only a strong working class movement could bring real change to the workplace. (1911) Incident that resulted in the deaths of some 140 garment workers; led to increased safety regulations for businesses.
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What is freedom of contract?
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is the freedom to negotiate the terms of their employment.
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Who is 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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Who is Louis D. Brandeis?
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Kelley asked Goldmark's brother- in- law, a brilliant lawyer named Louis D. Brandeis, to argue the case.
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What is closed shop?
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a workplace where all the employees must belong to a union.
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What is a socialism?
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Economic system in which the government or the workers own most factories, utilities, and transportation and communications systems.
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Who is Samuel Gompers?
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the AFL grew fourfold from 1900 to 1914.
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What is the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU)
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Influential union established in New York City in 1900 to organize workers in sewing shops.
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What is open shop?
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Nonunion workplace.
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What is Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW)?
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Founded in Chicago in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World I(IWW) opposed capitalism.
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Who is William"Big Bill" Haywood?
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made claims for the working class.
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What is a Lawrence Veiller?
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a settlement house worker, attacked irresponsible tenement owners "who for the sake of a large profit on their investments sacrifice the health and welfare of countless thousands.
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Who is Daniel Burnham?
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a leading architect and city planner, produced a magnificent plan for redesigning Chicago.
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What is a prohibition?
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a ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages- and the closing of the nation's saloons.
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What is Women's Christian Temperature Union ( WCTU)?
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led the crusade against alcohol.
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Who is Billy Sunday?
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a former ballplayer turned Presbyterian evangelist, preached that saloons were "the parent of crimes and the mother of sins"
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Who is Frances Willard?
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headed the WCTU from 1879 to 1898.
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What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
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(1919) Constitutional amendment that barred the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages in the United States; repealed in 1933.
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Who is W.E.B. Du Bois( doo boys)?
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one of the most influential African American leaders to emerge during this period was W.E.B. Du Bois.
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What is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP)?
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an organization dedicated to ending racial discrimination.
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What is National Urban League?
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Group founded in 1911 to fight for racial equality.
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What is Society of American Indians?
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Organization formed in 1911 by middle-class American Indians to address Indian problems.
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What is Americanization?
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a process of preparing foreign-born residents for full U.S. citizenship.
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