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35 Cards in this Set
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Northern Securities Company
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an important United States railroad trust formed in 1902 by E. H. Harriman, James J. Hill, J.P. Morgan, J. D. Rockefeller, and their associates
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Hepburn Act
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gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum railroad rates which led to the discontinuation of free passes to loyal shippers.
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The Jungle
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a 1906 novel written by author and journalist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote this novel to highlight the plight of the working class and to remove from obscurity the corruption of the American meatpacking industry during the early-20th century.
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Payne Aldrich Act
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helped discredit Taft and revealed the tensions in the Republican party.
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“Bully Pulpit”
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a forum of ideas and leadership for the nation.
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Ballinger – Pinchot Controversy
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the conservation issue dealt another blow to relations between Roosevelt and Taft.
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Social Justice Movement
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it focused on the need for tenement house laws, more stringent child labor regulations, and better working conditions for women.
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“Bull Moose”
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the Progressive Party of 1912 was a political party created by a split in the Republican Party in the presidential election of 1912
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New Freedom
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the government could best serve the public interest and provide social justice by breaking up the trusts and restoring competition to the economy.
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The New Nationalism
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It called for expanding federal power to regulate big business and provide social-justice legislation.
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How the Other Half Lives
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Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s
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WCTU
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•The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is the oldest continuing non-sectarian women's organization worldwide. Founded in Evanston, Illinois in 1873,> the group spearheaded the crusade for prohibition.
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Anti-Saloon League
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non-partisan organization established in 1893 that focused on the single issue of prohibition
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“Brandeis Brief”
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a pioneering legal brief that was the first in United States legal history to rely not on pure legal theory, but also on analysis of factual data. It is named after litigator Louis Brandeis, who collected empirical data from hundreds of sources in the 1908 case Muller v. Oregon
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Muller v. Oregon
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Louis Brandeis, lawyer for the National Consumers' League, prepared a brief stuffed with economic and sociological evidence showing that long working hours were dangerous to the health of women and society
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Pragmatism
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a philosophical movement that includes those who claim that an ideology or proposition is true if it works satisfactorily, that the meaning of a proposition is to be found in the practical consequences of accepting it, and that unpractical ideas are to be rejected
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Oswald Garrison Villard
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an American journalist. He provided a rare direct link between the classical liberal anti-imperialism of the late 19th century and the conservative Old Right of the 1930s and 1940s.
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Underwood Tariff
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reduced the rates of the earlier Payne-Aldrich Tariff and initiated a graduated income tax made constitutional by the Sixteenth Amendment.
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Meat Inspection Act
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Provided for government supervision of meatpacking operations; it was part of a broader “Progressive” reform movement dedicated to correcting the negative consequences of urbanization and industrialization in the United States.
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Pure Food and Drug Act
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•Passed in response to exposés on the patent medicine business and in response to Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle (1906) which had offered graphic descriptions of the horrors of the meat-packing plants in Chicago and the living conditions of the laborers who worked there.
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FDA
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•Food and Drug Administration: a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products
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Clayton Anti-Trust Act
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Passed during Wilson's first administration, this Act amended the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. The definition of what constituted “unlawful practices” was non-specific
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Mann-Elkins Act
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gave the Interstate Commerce Commission authority to regulate telegraph and telephone companies, and expanded its authority to regulate railroads
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“Wisconsin Idea”
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•Progressive governor Robert La Follette called on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin to offer its expertise to help him bring progressive change to the state. A widely copied legislative reference library was one of their notable accomplishments
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Tom Johnson
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mayor of cleveland. demonstrated an innovative approach to city government.
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Joe Cannon
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speaker of the house. "uncle joe" setted house procedures, appointed committees, and virtually dictating legislation
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Federal Trade Commission
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•an independent agency of the United States federal government that maintains fair and free competition; enforces federal antitrust laws; educates the public about identity theft
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Interstate Commerce Commission
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•The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) was a regulatory body in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, which was signed into law by President Grover Cleveland.
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Keating-Owen Act
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•The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 also known as Wick's Bill, was a statute enacted by the U.S. Congress which sought to address the perceived evils of child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods manufactured by children
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1910 midterm elections
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Taft attempted to defeat the progressive Republicans
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1912 Presidential election
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offered competing philosophies of government. Wilson won.
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Dr. Alice Hamilton
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devoted her life to helping the less fortunate. choosing medicine, she became a doctor.
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1902 Coal Strike
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a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania.
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John Dewey
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an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been very influential to education and social reform.
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Thorstein Veblen
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a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist and a primary mentor, along with John R. Commons, of the institutional economics movement.
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