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34 Cards in this Set
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progressivism
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an era where people wanted to reform their lives, this had alot to do with the industrial revolution
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RE olds
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big name in the automotive business
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model t
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aka tin lizzie created by henry ford first car to be sold largely to the people
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united fruit
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fruit company grown on third world countries fromed by merger
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general electric
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electric compmay created in new york, first electric company
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frederick winslow taylor
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big on management ,wrote a sort of set of guidleines managers should follow
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"principles of scientific management"
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written by frederick taylor, theories of organization and management of big companies
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triangle shirtwaist co.
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shirt company, had a fire on top floors and many kids died because they were locked up in the work rooms, this created conflict among child labor.
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WTUL
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made to help support efforts of women to create labor unions.
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RFD
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first from of mailmen prety much. delivered mail out to rural parts of country
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rockefeller sanitary commision
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got rid of hookworm a dsease whcih haunted rural towns
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newlands act
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funded irrigation in the west
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david graham philips
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journalist
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sheppard towner act
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created funding for maternal and child care.
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margaret sanger
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birth control activist
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niagara convention
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black civil rights organization led by web dubois and william trotter
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NAACP
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anopther blacks civil rights org. led by booker t washington
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guinn vs u.s.
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court case that set qualifications for voters
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buchanon vs warley
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addressed racial segregation in reesidental areas
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padroni
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what italians called labor agents they recruited immigrant workers
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leonidas skliris
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labor agent,provided workers for utah copper company and the western pacific railroad
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birds of passage
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immigrants who did not permanently stay in the U.S
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americanization
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term used to describe the influence america had on pop culture business, technoology, politics and even other countries
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coyotes
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coyote labor agents recruited mostly mexican workers
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barrios
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labor agenmts that went into mexico and central america to recruit workers.
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samuel gompers
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leader of AFL labor union
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IWW
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like the knights of labor, took everyone and anyone
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bill haywood
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founded IWW
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five dollar day
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idea created by henry ford, double wage of most his workers brought more workers to ford became profitable
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amoskeag
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largest cotton plant in world
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irving berlin
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composer seen as one of greatest song writers in history
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DW griffith
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one of first and greatest film directors
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ASCAP
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american society of composers artists and publishers protect all from copyright, it monitors their members
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ashcan school
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realist artist movement did many works of poor neighborhood life
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