Chapter 22 Vocab

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progressivism

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lasted from the mid-1890s through World War 1. Reflected worry about the state of society, the effects of industrialization and urbanization, social disorder, political corruption, etc.

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RE Olds

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used an assembly line system to turn out five thousands Olds runabouts in 1904.

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Model T

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A four-cylinder, 20 horse-power car costing $850 and available only in black. Produced by Henry Ford

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Tin Lizzie

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known as a car type, referred to the Model T

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United Fruit

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an empire of plantations and steamships in the Caribbean

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General Electric

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founded the first industrial research lab in 1900, housed in a barn. It attracted experts who designed improvements in light bulbs, invented the cathode-ray tube, worked on early radio, and even tinkered with atomic theory

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Frederick Winslow Taylor

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An inventive mechanical engineer who strove to extract maximum efficiency from each worker. Wrote The Principles of Scientific Management. He proposed two management plans. One was the management must take responsibility for job-related knowledge and classify it into rules and laws. The second one was that management should control the workplace through enforcement of standardization and working conditions.

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"Principles of Scientific Management"

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Written by Taylor, He proposed two management plans. One was the management must take responsibility for job-related knowledge and classify it into rules and laws. The second one was that management should control the workplace through enforcement of standardization and working conditions.

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Triangle Shirtwaist Co.

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focused on nationwide attention on unsafe working conditions.

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WTUL

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Women's Trade Union League. Run by ROse Schneiderman who told New York's civic and religious leaders that they had not done enough and that nobody cared.

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RFD

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mailing route in which one billion newspapers and magazines were delivered over.

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Rockefeller Sanitary Commission

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Began a sanitation campaign that wiped out the hookworm disease

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Newlands Act

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The secretary of interior formed the US Reclamation Service which gathered a staff of thousands of engineers and technicians.

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David Graham Phillips

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A novelist troubled by the woman's problem and who depicted a husband's oppression of his wife in The Hungry Heart.

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Sheppard-Towner Act

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Passed in 1921, helped fund maternity and pediatric clinics. It provided a precedent for the Social Service Act of 1935 and demonstrated the increasing effectiveness of women reformers in the Progressive Era

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Margaret Sanger

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a nurse and outspoken social reformer who led a campaign to give physicians broad discretion in prescribing contraceptives.

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Niagara Movement

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led by W.E.B. Du Bois, claimed for African American rights. It focused on equal rights and the education of African American youth.

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NAACP

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became the important civil rights organization in the country. Pressured employers, labor unions, and the government on behalf of African Americans

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Guinn v US

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Supreme Court overturned a "grandfather clause" that kept African Americans from voting in Oklahoma

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Buchanon v Worley

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Supreme Court struck down on a law in Kentucky that required residential segregation.

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padroni

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Labor agents responsible for recruiting immigrant workers, finding them jobs and deducted a fee from their wages

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Leonidas Skliris

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The "czar of the Greeks" who 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

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Americanization

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designed to assimilate Immigrants into American society

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coyotes

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Labor agents usually in the employ of large corporations or working for ranchers. Recruited Mexican workers

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barrios

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became cultural islands of family life, foods, church, and festivals

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Samuel Gompers

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leader of the American Federation of Labor.

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IWW (Wobblies)

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attracted by far the greatest attention. Welcomed everyone and tried to organize the unskilled and foreign born laborers who worked in the mass production industries

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Bill Haywood

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one of the founders of the IWW. He went on in his speeches to say he knew nothing of a worker could do that "will 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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When Henry Ford doubled the wage rate for common labor, reduced the working day from nine to eight hours, and established a personnel department to place workers in appropriate jobs.

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Amoskeag

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Produced nearly 50 miles of cloth an hour, more cloth each day than any other mill in the entire world. The company hired and fired at will.

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Irving Berlin

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a Russian immigrant who wrote "Alexander's Ragtime Band". Created the faster rhythms of syncopated ragtime.

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DW Griffith

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A talented and creative director and racist who produced the first movie spectator, Birth of a Nation.

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ASCAP

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American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. Formed by Victor Herbert and others who wanted to protect musical rights and royalties.

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Quadratus femoris

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Origin: lateral aspect of ischial tuberosity
Insertion: quadrate line (along posterior aspect of femur and intertrochanteric crest)
Action: laterally rotates femur
INN: Femoral nerve