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35 Cards in this Set
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Progressivism
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Refers to the era where much of America changed due to industrialization.
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R.E. Olds
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Car manufacturer
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Model T
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Also known as the Tin Lizzie, one of the most famous cars built by Henry Ford and his company.
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Tin Lizzie
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Also known as the Model T, one of the most famous cars built by Henry Ford and his company.
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United Fruit
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A corporation that traded in tropical fruit grown in third world plantations and sold in Europe and America.
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General Electric
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Formed by Thomas Edison.
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Frederick Winslow Taylor
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Created the theory of scientific management.
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"Principles of Scientific Management"
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Written by Frederick Winslow Taylor and argues for different methods in management to increase the productivity of workers.
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Triangle Shirtwaist Company
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A company famous for the fire that killed many workers. Only a short time before workers striked and fought to unlock the doors. Unfortunately the company refused to unlock the doors and when a fire occured, many workers died.
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Women's Trade Union League
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A trade union specifically for women. Never had many members but was a first because other Unions did not allow women to join.
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RFD (Rural Free Delivery)
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a System organized for the farmers in the United States. Better connected them to the cities and gave them access to more tools and supplies that they wanted or needed.
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Rockefeller Sanitary Commission
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An organization that removed several diseases form certain areas of the United States by removing unsanitary conditions.
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Newlands Act
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Funded irrigation projects in the west
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David Graham Phillips
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Was an American Journalist who was a progressivist and a Muckraker, exposing the corruption and crimes that were hidden within the businesses and governments.
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Sheppard-Towner Act
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Protected the rights of mothers and infants by providing federal funds them and their health.
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Margaret Sanger
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Favored birth control as a method to control poverty.
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Niagara Movement
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A movement by african americans to fight for rights. Was not too successful however the grandfather clause in several states was overturned.
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NAACP
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An African American group that fought for their rights.
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Guinn vs US
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Found literacy tests and the grandfather clause unconstitutional.
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Buchanan vs Worley
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Prevents segregation in residential neighborhoods.
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Padroni
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A name for the Italians who came to the United States.
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Leonidas Skliris
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A labor agent who was famous mostly for his role with the Greeks of Salt Lake City.
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Birds of Passage
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Immigrants who commuted to the United States. They came only to work and went home every off season.
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Americanization
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Refers to trying to make the immigrants more like natural Americans.
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Coyotes
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Smugglers of workers in the southwest. Recruited Mexicans to work in factories.
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Barrios
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Neighborhoods of Mexicans.
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Samuel Gompers
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Founded the American Federation of Labor and argued for the benefit of the workers.
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Industrial Workers of the World
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An international union that argued that the workers should be a class and the wage system should be stopped.
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Bill Haywood
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Founded the Industrial Workers of the World
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Five Dollar Day
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A system that raised the wages at Ford's factories to $5, an amount unheard of in terms of wages.
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Amoskeag
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Was a textile mill that became the largest in the world. Had many new features for the workers like company owned schools and playgrounds.
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Irving Berlin
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A composer in the Progressive Era.
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DW Griffith
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An American director who made the film, Birth of a Nation.
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ASCAP
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An organization which protects the copyrights of Authors, Publishers, and Composers.
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Ashcan School
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An Art movement best known for portraying the daily life of New Yorks poorer citizens.
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