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Progressivism
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A spirit of reform which was aroused by such problems
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McClure's magazine
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A National Magazine that had been founded in 1893 by the reform-minded Scots-Irish immigrant S.S McClure
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Muckrakers
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The vivid image stuck, and investigative journalists
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LIncoln Steffens
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Journalist who published "McClure'' which marked the real beginning of this style
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Ida Tarbell
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"history of the standar oil" she was Born in western Pennsylvania in 1857 . She was the Daughter of an oil producer
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Ray standard baker
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Tourned the nation examining the plight of African Americans. Published in 1908 described a lynching in Springfield , Ohio
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Theodore Dreiser
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He depicted workers brutalized by greedy business owners.
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Edith Wharton
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He wrote about how the closed-mindeless of elite society leads a good-hearted heroine to social isolation and despair
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Herbert Croly
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Political theorist who agued that the government should use its regulatory and taxation power to promote the welfare of all it's citizens
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Florence Kelley
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Reformer who worked tirelessly for this cause , she helped persuade the Illinois legislature in 1893 to prohibit child labor and to limit the number of hours women could work
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Triangle Shirtwaist fire
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By the time firefighters gained control of the laze and more than 140 workers had perished in that
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Rose Schneiderman
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A women's trade union league organizer, argued that only a strong working class movement could bring real change to the workplace
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Freedom of contract
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Or the freedom to negotiate the terms of their employment . The court also ruled that some social legislation violated the constitution by denying workers their freedom of contract
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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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Kelley asked Goldmark's brother in law a brillnt lawyer, to argue the case
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Closed shop
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A workplace where all employees must belong to a union
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Socialism
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The system under which the government or worker cooperatives own most factories, utilities, and transportation and communication systems
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Samuel Gompers
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He led the AFL favored working within the system
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International Ladies' garment workers Union
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ILGWU , established in 1900 in NYC , unskilled workers
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Open Shop
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Nonunion work place. Most employers were determinated to run it.
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Industrial Workers of the world
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(IWW) opposed capitalism , founded in Chigao in 1905.
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William "Bug Bill" Haywood
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IWW's leader who made claims for the working class
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Lawrence Veiller
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A settlement house worker, who 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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Daniel Burnham
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In 1909 a leadIng architect and city planner, produced a magnificent plan redesigning Chicago.
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Prohibition
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A ban on manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages
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Woman's Christian temperance Union
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WCTU , led the crusade against alcohol
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Billy Sunday
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A former ball player turned Presbyterian evangelist, preached that saloons were " the parent of crimes and the mother of sins"
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Frances Williard
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Headed the WCTU from 1879 to 1898.
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Eighteenth Amendment
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Which barred the manufacture, sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages.
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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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