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16 Cards in this Set
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Henry Demarest Lloyd |
"Wealth Against Commonwealth" anti Standard Oil Book |
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Thorstein Veblen |
"Theory of the Leisure Class" Anti corruption and wastefull business |
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Jacob A. Riis |
"How the Other Half Lives" (1890) |
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Lincoln Steffens |
"The Shame of the Cities" (1902) showed alliance between big biz and municipal gov |
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Ida M. Tarbell |
Wrote McClure's exposé on the Standard Oil Company- female business historian |
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Thomas W. Lawson |
"Frenzied Finance" 1905-06 Ratted out corrupt stock trading partners |
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David G. Phillips |
"The Treason of the Senate" (1906) 75 of 90 senators represented rails not the people |
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Dr. Harvey W. Wiley |
Chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture and had a famous "Poison Squad" |
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17th Amendement |
Direct election of U.S. Senators (1913) |
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18th Amendment |
Banned alcohol (1920) |
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Political reform of progressives: |
-"Recall" voters remove bad officials -"Referendum" people get final approval of laws -"Australian Ballot" anonymous voting -Direct Election in Senate -"Corrupt Practices Acts" limited money candidates can spend on election |
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Robert M. LaFollette |
Republican reform leader and governor of Wisconsin |
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Hiram W. Johnson |
California governor that broke the grip of the Southern Pacific Railroad |
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Charles Evan Hughes |
Republican governor of New York- gained fame as a malpractices investigator |
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Florence Kelly |
Illinois's first chief factory inspector- founded the National Consumer's league and fought for working rights |
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Louis D. Brandeis |
Attorney that won Muller v Oregon (1908) |
