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35 Cards in this Set
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Progressivism
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Reflected worry about the state of society, the effects of industrialization and urbanization, social disorder and political corruption.
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RE Olds
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Used assembly line system to turn out five thousand old runabouts.
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Model T
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First car turned out by ford motor company.
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Tin Lizzie
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Model T.
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United Fruit
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An empire of plantations and steamships in the Caribbean.
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General Electric
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Developed first lab for industrial research.
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Frederick Winslow Taylor
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Innovative mechanical engineer wrote the principles of scientific management.
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Principles of Scientific Management
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Management must take responsibility for job-related knowledge and classify it into rules, laws, and formulae. Management should control the workplace.
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Triangle Shirtwaist Co.
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Fire in New York killed many employees.
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WTUL
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Lobbied for federal bureau of labor to investigate conditions in which women and children worked.
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RDF
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Rural Free Delivery mail delivery in farms.
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Rockefeller Sanitary Commission
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Began sanitation campaign that eventually wiped out hookworm disease.
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Newlands Act
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Formed the us reclamation service.
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David Graham Phillips
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Wrote Hungry Heart. Troubled by womens problems.
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Sheppard-Towner Act
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Helped fund maternity and pediatric clinics.
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Margret Sanger
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Led a campaign to give physicians broad discretion in prescribing contraceptives.
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Niagra Movement
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Claimed African Americans every single right that belongs to a freeborn American.
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NAACP
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Organized for African American rights.
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Guinn vs US
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Supreme court overturned grandfather clause.
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Buchsnon vs Warley
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Struck down law that required residential segregation.
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Padroni
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Labor agents.
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Leonidas Skliris
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Provided worker for the Utah Copper company and western pacific RR.
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Birds of Passage
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Immigrants who came to the US only temporarily.
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Americanization
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An attempt to ease the difference in the workplace between old and new immigrants.
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Coyotes
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Labor agents who worked for large corporations or ranchers to recruit mexicans.
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Barrios
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a group of immigrants within a city, usually from same homeland.
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Samuel Gompers
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Founder of the AFL.
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IWW
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Industrial Workers of the World. Aimed to unite American working class to promote labor's interest.
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Bill Haywood
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Founder of IWW.
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Five Dollar Day
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Introduced by Henry Ford, doubled common wage rate of time.
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Amoskeag
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An enormous network of factories, warehouses, canals, and machinery. Put out about 50 miles of cloth a day.
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Irving Berlin
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Wrote Alexander's Ragtime Band. Set off ragtime music.
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D.W. Griffith
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Created first movie spectacular.
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ASCAP
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American Society for Composers, Authors, and Publishers.
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Ashcan School
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Defined as a realist artistic movement that came into prominence in the United States during the early twentieth century, best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York's poorer neighborhoods.
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