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Progressivism
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Reform movement of the early 1900s concerned with curing problems of urbanization and industrializatn.
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Muckrakers
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Investigate journalists who wrote about corruption in business and politics, hoping to bring about reform
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McClure's Maganzine
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Progressive magazine that explored corruption in politics and business
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Lincoln Steffens
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A journalist who wrote "Tweed days in St. Louis"
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Ida Tarbell
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Was the daughter of an independent oil producer
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Ray Stannard Baker
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Leading national journalist
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Theodore Dreiser
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Son of a German immigrant and novelist
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Edith Wharton
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Was an American author who wrote The House of Mirth
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Herbert Croly
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Intellectual leader of the Progressive Movement
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Freedom of contract
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Freedom of workers to negotiate the terms of their employment
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Closed shop
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Work place in which all employees must belong to a union
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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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Open shop
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Nonunion workplace
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Florence Kelly
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Was an american social and political reformer
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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(1911) incident that resulted in the deaths of some 140 garment workers
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Rose Schneiderman
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Prominent labor leader and socialist
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Muller vs. Oregon
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(1908) Supreme Court case that upheld protective legislation for female workers in Oregon
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Louis D. Brandis
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Associate justice of the Surpreme Court
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Samuel Gompers
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Cigar maker and labor union leader
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International Ladies' Garment Workers Union
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(ILGWU) influenced union established in New York City in 1900 to organize workers in sewing shops
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Industrial Workers of the World
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an international revolutionary federation of industrial unions founded in Chicago in 1905
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William "Big Hill" Haywood
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was a founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and a member of the Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of America.
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Prohibition
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Complete ban on the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcohol
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Lawrence Veiller
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Social worker
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Daniel Burnham
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Architect and urban planner
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Women's Christian Temperance Union
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(WCTU) reform organization that led the fight against alcohol in the late 1800s
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Billy Sunday
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Popular american athlete
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Frances Willard
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American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist.
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Eighteenth Amendment
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(1919) Constitutional amendment that barred the manufacture sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages in the United States
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W. E. B. Du Bois
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an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor
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National Association for the Adventure of Color People
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(NAACP) Group founded by W. E. B. Du Bois and others in 1909 to end racial discrimination
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National Urban League
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a nonpartisan civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States.
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Society of American Indians
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progressive group formed in Columbus, Ohio in 1911 by 50 Native Americans
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Americanization
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The process of preparing foreign-born residents for full US citizenship
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