Chapter 22 Flash Cards

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progressivism

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A movement in the early twentieth century that was based off concern for society and fixing them.

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RE Olds

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Ransom Eli Olds. A pioneer of the transportation industry who built first steam powered, then gas powered cars.

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Model T

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A car made by Henry Ford that was the first "car for the people" that was marketed to the middle class.

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Tin Lizzie

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An alternative name for the Model T.

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United Fruit

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Formed in 1899, it was a united states company that traded tropical fruit, most of which came from US colonies.

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General Electric

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Formed when Edison General Electric merged business with the Thomas-Huston electric company. It made the first assembly line.

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Frederick Winslow Taylor

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A mind in this era who supported "scientific" labor management. In short, that the labor would come after the system.

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"Principles of Scientific Management"

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A book by Fredrick Winslow Taylor that said that management should be the ones to know things and all things should be things enforced by management.

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Triangle Shirtwaist Co.

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A factory that housed a fire that killed workers due to locked doors and small fire escapes that brought attention to labor conditions.

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WTUL

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A union formed by women for women in the early twentieth century.

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RFD

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Rural Free Delivery. it was a service that would deliver to isolated farmers and other rural peoples that diminished their sense of isolation.

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Rockefeller Sanitary Commission

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A group that acted on scientific discoveries that wiped out hookworm in cities.

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Newlands Act

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An act passed in 1902 that assembled engineers and technicians to irrigate arid states.

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David Graham Phillips

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A writer who , in his book "The Hungry Heart," depicted the oppression of the woman by her husband.

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Sheppard-Towner Act

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An act passed in 1911that helped to fund maternity and pediatric clinic.

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Margaret Sanger

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A nurse and social reformer who pushed for discretion in prescribing contraceptives. Her involvement in the birth control movement helped a great deal.

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Niagra movement

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Headed by W.E.B Du Bois, it was a civil rights group that focused on equality in education.

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NAACP

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An important civil rights group that joined with The National Urban League to push for equal work rights for African Americans.

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Guinn vs. US

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A supreme court case that overturned the grandfather clause.

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Buchanan v. Worley

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A supreme court case that overturned a law in Kentucky that required residential segregation.

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padroni

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labor agents who found jobs for immigrants and deducted their fee from their wages.

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Leonidas Skliris

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A padroni called the "czar of the greeks" who provided jobs in Utah for the Utah Copper Company and the Western Pacific Railroad

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Birds of Passage

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Immigrants who would come to America for a wage and job, then leave for their homeland when they've made money.

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Americanization

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The process immigrants went through to become one in the "melting pot" where they were taught English and the ins and outs of American society.

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coyotes

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labor agents who recruited Mexican laborers

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barrios

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Small villages of Mexican-Americans that were hubs for culture for these mexican americans

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Samuel Gompers

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The man who founded the American Federation of Labor, a large labor union.

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IWW (Wobblies)

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A very large and very radical labor union who stressed labor solidarity. It welcomed all and organized them according to labor.

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Bill Haywood

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one of the founders of the IWW who said in a speech that nothing a worker could do "would bring as much anguish to the boss as a little sabotage in the right place."

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Five Dollar Day

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a revolution by Henry Ford in which he would pay each worker five dollars a day, but he got his choice of workers, and so labor union power plummeted.

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Amoskeag

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A textile mill that was enormous and produced a lot of cloth. They demanded work relentlessly. It was a self-contained system and the workers all were like family to another, but not to the administration.

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Irving Berlin

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A songwriter who wrote "Alexander's Ragtime Band." This song set off a national ragtime phenomenon.

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DW Griffith

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A director who produced the first movie spectatular: "Birth of a Nation," in 1915. He introduced many new techniqued.

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ASCAP

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The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. Founded to protect musical rights and royalties.

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Ashcan School

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A bunch of painters in Greenwich Village, New York who painted using realism.