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35 Cards in this Set
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progressivism
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•the political orientation of those who favor progress toward better conditions in government and society
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R.E. Olds
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a pioneer of the American automotive industry, for whom both the Oldsmobile and Reo brands were named. He claimed to have built his first steam car as early as 1894, and his first gasoline powered car in 1896.
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Model T
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•the first widely available automobile powered by a gasoline engine; mass-produced by Henry Ford from 1908 to 1927
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Tin Lizzie
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an automobile that was produced by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company from 1908 through 1927. The Model T set 1908 as the historic year that the automobile became popular
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United fruit
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a United States corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas and pineapples) grown on Third World plantations and sold in the United States and Europe.
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General Electric
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is a multinational American technology and services conglomerate incorporated in the State of New York
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•Frederick Winslow Taylor
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an American mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency. He is regarded as the father of scientific management, and was one of the first management consultants.
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"principles of scientific management."
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a monograph published by Frederick Winslow Taylor in 1911. This influential monograph is the basis of modern organization and decision theory and has motivated administrators and students of managerial technique.
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Triangle Shirtwaist Co.
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caught nationwide attention on unsafe working habits when fire broke out.
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WTUL
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a U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women formed in 1903 to support the efforts of women to organize labor unions and to eliminate sweatshop conditions
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RFD
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•rural free delivery: free government delivery of mail in outlying country areas
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Rockefeller Sanitary Commission
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a sanitation campaign that eventually wiped out the hookworm disease.
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Newlands Act
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a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 17 states in the American West.
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David Graham Phillips
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an American journalist and novelist.
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Sheppard-Towner Act
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a U.S. Act of Congress providing federal funding for maternity and child care
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Margaret Sanger
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United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
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Niagara Movement
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a black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group led by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter. It was named for the "mighty current" of change the group wanted to effect and Niagara Falls, which was near where the first meeting took place in July 1905
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NAACP
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one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality
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Guinn v US
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the Supreme court over turned the "grandfather clause" in Oklahoma.
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Buchanon v Worley
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struck down a law that required residential segregation in Kentucky.
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padroni
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labor agents that recruited immigrants and found them jobs. took some of their paycheck.
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Leonidas Skliris
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"czar of the Greeks" provided workers for the Utah Copper Company and the Western Pacific Railroad.
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Birds of Passage
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The migrates who came over for a little, and then returned home every slack season.
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Americanization
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the influence of the United States of America on the culture of other countries. It refers to the globalization of American businesses, culture, lifestyle and technology
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coyotes
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labor agents that recurited Mexican workers.
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barrios
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a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city (especially in the United States)
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Samuel Gompers
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president of the American Federation of Labor from 1886 to 1924
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IWW (wobblies)
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a former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States; founded in Chicago in 1905 and dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism
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Bill Haywood
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Big Bill Haywood, 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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Five Dollar Day
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Garentees 5 dollars a day for work.
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Amoskeag
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an enormous complex of factories, warehouses, canals, and machinery.
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Irving Berlin
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wrote "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and set off a nationwide dance craze.
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D.W. Griffith
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a talented and creative director.
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ASCAP
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a not-for-profit performance rights organization that protects its members' musical copyrights by monitoring public performances of their music, whether via a broadcast or live performance, and compensating them accordingly
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Ashcan School
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•A group of US painters of the early 20th century who painted realistic scenes of everyday urban life. The work depicted such subjects as the streets and inhabitants of big cities with a vigorous sense of realism.
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