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35 Cards in this Set
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Progressivism
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reflected worries about state of society
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R.E. Olds
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automotive entrepreneur, responsible for oldsmobile
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Model T
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introduced 1908, first affordable car
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Tin Lizzie
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nickname for the Model T
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United Fruit
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empire of plantations and steamships in the Carribean
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General Electric
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founded first industrial research lab in 1900
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Frederick Winslow Taylor
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innovative mechanical engineer, extracted maximum efficiency from each worker
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"Principles of Scientific Management"
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Book by Taylor, 1922, management responsible for job knowledge and controlling workplace
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Triangle Shirtwaist Co.
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factory which fire occurred, 146 dead due to doors being locked and single fire escape
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WTUL
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Women's Trade Union League, organized women
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RFD
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rural free delivery, routes that delivered mail to rural areas
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Rockefeller Sanitary Commission
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1909, made sanitation campaign that wiped out hookworm disease
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Newlands Act
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1902, formed US Reclamation Service
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David Graham Phillips
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author concerned about women's problems, wrote The Hungry Heart (1909)
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Sheppard-Towner Act
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funded maternity and pediatric clinics
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Margaret Sanger
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nurse and social reformer, promoted birth control
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Niagara Movement
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led by Du Bois, wanted political and economic equality and integration for all
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NAACP
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, pressured employers and the government for rights for blacks
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Guinn v US
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overturned grandfather clause
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Buchanon v Worley
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struck down law requiring racial segregation
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Padroni
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Italian word for labor agents
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Leonidas Skliris
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"czar of the Greeks," provided workers for the Utah Copper Company and the Western Pacific Railroad
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Birds of Passage
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immigrants who went back and forth between their home land and America
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Americanization
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process of stripping immigrants of their culture and assimilating them into American culture
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Coyotes
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Spanish name for labor agents
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Barrios
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enclaves of Mexican-Americans in cities
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Samuel Gompers
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union leader, American Federation of Labor
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IWW (Wobblies)
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Industrial Workers of the World, radical, socialists leaning, worked for overthrow of Capitalism
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Bill Haywood
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one of IWW's founders
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Five Dollar Day
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done by Ford, double workers' wages, cut work day, created personnel department
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Amoskeag
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extremely successful textile company that produced more than others in the world
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Irving Berlin
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famous composer and lyricist
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DW Griffith
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directed Birth of a Nation
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ASCAP
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American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, protected musical rights and royalties
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Ashcan School
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school of art, realism
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