Chapter 22

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progressivism

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is a political attitude favoring or advocating changes or reform.

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RE Olds

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Eurpoean immigrants from the first wave of immigration

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Model T

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It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that opened travel to the common middle-class American;

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Tin Lizzie

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Model T

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United Fruit

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a United States corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas) grown on third world plantations and sold in the United States

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General Electric

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was formed by the 1892 merger of Edison General Electric of Schenectady, New York and Thomson-Houston Company of Lynn, Massachusetts,

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Frederick Winslow Taylor

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an American mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency.

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"Principles of Scientific Management"

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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. Fire

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was one of the largest industrial disasters in the history of the city of New York, causing the death of 146 garment workers, most of them women, who either died from the fire or jumped from the fatal height.

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WTUL

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is a progressive/alternative FM radio outlet in New Orleans, Louisiana,

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RFD

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the postal system to rural areas of the United States

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Rockefeller Sanitary Commission

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for the Eradication of 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 20 states in the American West

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David Graham Phillips

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is known for producing one of the most important investigations exposing details of the corruption by big businesses of the Senate, in particular, by the Standard Oil Company.

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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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was an American birth control activist and the founder of the American Birth Control League.

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Niagara Movement

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was a black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group led by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter.

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NAACP

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP (play /ˈɛn ˌdʌbəlˈeɪ ˈsiː ˈpiː/), is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States. [3] Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination"

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Guinn v US

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an important United States Supreme Court decision that dealt with provisions of state constitutions that set qualifications for voters. It found grandfather clause exemptions to literacy tests to be unconstitutional.

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Buchanon v Worley

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a unanimous United States Supreme Court decision addressing racial segregation in residential areas. The Court held that a Louisville, Kentucky, ordinance requiring residential segregation based on race violated the Fourteenth Amendment.

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padroni

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were labor broker s, sometimes immigrants themselves, who recruited Italian immigrants for large employers

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Leonidas Skilris

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Birds of Passage

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immigrants that didn't stay full-time in America and only came to make money and leave

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Americanization

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is the term outside the U.S. used to describe the influence of the United States on the popular culture, technology, business practices, political techniques or language, of other countries

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coyotes

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is a species of canine found throughout North and Central America,

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barrios

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is a surname of Basque origin.

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Samuel Gompers

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an English-born American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history.

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IWW or the Wobblies

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The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union.

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Bill Haywood

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was a founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW),

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Five Dollar Day

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daily wage of five dollars

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Amoskeag

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it grew throughout the 19th century into the largest cotton textile plant in the world.

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Irving Berlin

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was an American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in history.

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DW Griffith

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was a premier pioneering American film director.[1] He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance (1916).[2]

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ASCAP

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The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (commonly known as ASCAP) is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) 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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also called the Ash Can School, is 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.