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28 Cards in this Set
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Progressivism
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Focused on reforming urban problems including working conditions
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Muckrakers
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Early investigative journalists
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McClures magazine
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National magazine founded by reformist
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Lincoln Steffens
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Wrote a article that exposed the corruption of the political machine in St. Louis
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Ida Tarbell
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Became known as the terror of the trusts because she would expose all bad things about any company
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Ray Stannard Baker
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Wrote a book describing the lynchings in Springfield Ohio
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Theodore Dreiser
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Depicted workers brutalized by greedy business owners
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Edith Wharton
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Wrote about the closed minded ness of elite society
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Herbert Croly
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Argued the government should use its powers of regulatory taxation for welfare for all citizens
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Freedom of Contract
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Freedom to negotiate terms of there employment
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Closed shop
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A workplace were all employees must belong to a union
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Socialism
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System were the government or worker coops own most factories, utilities and transportation
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Open shop
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Nonunion workplace
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Florence Kelley
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worked to limit child labor
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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A fire were over 140 people were killed motly women because they could not get out of the factory
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Rose Schneiderman
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Women's trade labor union league organizer
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Muller vs. Oregon
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Tried to challenge the ten hour workday law
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Louis D. Brandeis
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Goldmarks brother a brilliant lawyer who argued the case for the ten hour work law
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Samuel Gompers
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AFL leader who qua drooped membership
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International ladies garment factory workers union
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Established in 1900 to unionize workers
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William "Big Bill" Haywood
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Made claims for the working class
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Prohibition
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Complete ban on alcohol
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Lawrence Veiller
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Settlement house worker
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Daniel Burnham
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Produced plans for redesigning Chicago
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
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Led the crusade against alcohol
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Billy Sunday
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Former ball player that preached
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France's Willard
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Head of the WCTU
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Eighteenth Amendment
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Complete legal ban on alcohol that was hard to enforce and repeal
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