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35 Cards in this Set
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Progressivism
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-A political attitude favoring or advocating changes or reform.
-Often viewed in opposition to conservative or reactionary ideologies. -Progressive Movement began in cities with settlement workers and reformers who were interested in helping those facing harsh conditions at home and at work. |
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RE Olds
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-Was 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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Modle T
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-An automobile that was produced by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company from 1908 through 1927.
-Set1908 as the historic year that the automobile became popular. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that opened travel to the common middle-class American; some of this was because of Ford's innovations, including assembly line production instead of individual hand crafting |
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Tin Lizzie
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-Aka: The Ford Modle T
-Nickname for this revolutionary car |
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United Fruit
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-An empire of plantations and steamships in the Caribbean that exploited opportunities created by victory in the war with spain.
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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,
-Both plants remain in operation under the GE banner to this day -The company was incorporated in New York, with the Schenectady plant as headquarters for many years thereafter. |
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Frederick Winslow Taylor
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-Widely known as F. W. Taylor, was 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 Shirtwast Co.
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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.
-Most women could not escape the burning building because the managers would lock the doors to the stairwells and exits to keep the workers from stealing linen from the factory. -Women jumped from the ninth and tenth stories as the ladders on the fire trucks could not reach these floors. -The fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, |
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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.
-Played an important role in supporting the massive strikes in the first two decades of the twentieth century |
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RFD
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-The delivery of mail in what are traditionally considered rural areas. In the United States, rural letter carriers began service with the introduction of Rural Free Delivery in 1891
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Rockefeller Sanitary Commision
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-Was organized on October 26, 1909, as a result of a gift of $1,000,000.00 from John D. Rockefeller, Sr. who hoped that a five-year campaign against the disease would lead to the "adoption of well-considered plans for a cooperative movement of the Medical Profession, Public Health Officials, Board of Trade, Churches, Schools, the Press, and other agencies.
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Newlands Act
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-funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West
-The act set aside money from sales of semi-arid public lands for the construction and maintenance of irrigation projects. The newly irrigated land would be sold and money would be put into a revolving fund that supported more such projects |
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David Graham Philips
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-David Graham Philips 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. He was among a few other writers during that time that helped prompt President Theodore Roosevelt to use the term “Muckrakers
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Shepard-Towner Act
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-A U.S. Act of Congress providing federal funding for maternity and child care. It was sponsored by senators Morris Sheppard and Horace Mann Towner, and signed by President Warren G. Harding on November 23, 1921.
-The act was a response to the lack of adequate medical care for women and children. |
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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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Niagra 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.
-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. -The Niagara Movement was a call for opposition to racial segregation and disenfranchisement as well as policies of accommodation and conciliation |
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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 of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination" -Its name, retained in accordance with tradition, is one of the last surviving uses of the term colored people. |
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Guinn v. U.S
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-Was 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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-Was a unanimous U.S 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 Amendme |
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Padroni
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-Recruited immigrant workers, founded them jobs, and dected a fee from their wages
-Usually used among Italians |
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Leonidas Skliris
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-The "czar of Greeks" provided workers for the Utah Copper Company and the Western Pacific Railroad
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Birds of Passage
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-Temporary migrants who came to the U.S to work and save money and then returned home to their native countries during the slack season
-World War 1 interrupted the practice, trapping thousands of migrant workers in the U.S |
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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.
-The term has been used since 1907. -Inside the U.S. the term most often refers to the process of acculturation by immigrants to American customs. |
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Barrios
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-More commonly, however, in the United States, barrios refer to lower-class neighborhoods with largely Spanish-speaking residents, basically the Latino equivalent of a "ghetto".
-The word often implies that the poverty level is high in such a neighborhood |
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Coyotes
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-As "the facilitation, transportation, attempted transportation or illegal entry of a person or persons across an international border, in violation of one or more countries laws
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Samuel Gompers
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-Was an English-born American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor
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Wobblies
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-The Industrial Workers of the World
-The IWW contends that all workers should be united as a class and that the wage system should be abolished.[ -They may be best known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which workers elect recallable delegates |
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Bill Haywood
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-Better known as 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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-Ford astonished the world in 1914 by offering a $5 per day wage, which more than doubled the rate of most of his workers
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Amoskeag
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-In 1807, Samuel Blodgett started a canal and lock system at the river to help vessels navigate around the falls, opening the area to development. This soon led to the use of the falls to provide water power for Manchester's 19th century industrial development
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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.
His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous. The song sparked an international dance craze in places as far away as Russia, which also "flung itself into the ragtime beat with an abandon bordering on mania |
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DW Griffith
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-was a premier pioneering American film director.
-He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance |
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ASCAP
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-is an American 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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-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
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