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27 Cards in this Set
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The 2 leaders of the Social Gospel movement
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Washington Gladden & Walter Rauschenbusch
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Middle & upper class response to the Industrial Revolution
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Progressivism
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Safe residences in poor neighborhoods where reformers could study local condtions & residents could hold meetings & recieve free healthcare
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Settlement Houses
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Jane Addams' Chicago settlement house.
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hull house
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citizens could advocate a specific idea & introduce it on the ballot
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initiative
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devastating hurricane (the name of the city it was in)
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Galveston hurricane
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citizens could collect a few thousand signatures on a petition in order to advance a specific idea and introduce it on the ballot
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referendum
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A preliminary election designed to let voters choose which political candidates will run for public office
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primary
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device by which petitioning citizens can vote to dismiss state officers, governors, & judges who are deemed to violate the popular interest
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recall
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Commision set up by congress in 1903 to examine the conduct of businesses
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Bureau of Corporations
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Passed in 1890, the federal government's first attempt to break up monopolies
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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Limited prices that railroads could charge & allowed the federal government to monitor the financial books of the large railroad companies
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Hepburn Act of 1906
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Those in government advocating antitrust laws
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trustbuster
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Government agency created by Roosevelt to preserve land & protect local animal species
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National Forest Service
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Political party created by Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 to win back the presidency from Taft
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Progressive Party
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Woodrow Wilson's platform message pledging him to use government power to destroy big businesses & give smaller ones greater ability to compete
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The New Freedom
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Established a regional banking system under the control of the federal government
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Federal reserve act of 1913
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Massive tariff reduction included in the federal reserve act of 1913
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Underwood Tariff
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1914- outlawed unfair practices among businesses
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Clayton Antitrust Act
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Govt agency charged with investigating unfair business practices
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Federal Trade Commission
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Prevented employment of children under 16
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Keating- Owen Child Labor Act
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Investigate writers who exposed bad conditions in American factories, political corruption in city machies, & the financial deceit of corporations.
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muckrakers
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1906- 2 acts that gave federal government responsibility for ensuring meat would reach its customers fresh & disease free.
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Pure Food & Drug Act & the Meat Inspection Act
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1919- supported & advocated for education reforms that taught children to make good moral & political choices
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Progressive Education Association
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the detailed study of the best ways to schedule, organize & standardize work tasks.
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Scientific Management
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Who pioneered Scientific Management?
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Frederick W Taylor
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The study of exactly how factory jobs function, using minute scrutiny
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time-and-motion studies
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