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13 Cards in this Set
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International Workers of the World (IWW)
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Radical union its opposition to WWI led to its destruction by the federal government under the Espionage Act
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Muckrakers
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Writers that exposed corruption and abuses in politics, business, meatpacking, and child labor
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Ellis Island
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Reception center in NY harbor through which most European immigrants to America were processed
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Fordism
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Economic system pioneered by Ford Motor Company based on high wages and mass consumption
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Socialist Party
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Political Party demanding public ownership of major economic enterprises in the US as well as reforms like recognition of labor unions and woman's suffrage
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Emma Goldman
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Toured the country lecturing on subjects from anarchism to the need for more enlightened attitudes towards homosexuality
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Margaret Sanger
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Made sure that girls and everyone else know about sex ed and the importance of birth control
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Jane Addams
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Resented the prevailing expectation that woman's life should be governed by her "family claim"- must devote herself to her husband, parents, and children
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17th Amendment
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2 senators shall be chosen per state by electors
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Muller v. Oregon
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Claim that because women were more fragile than men they couldn't work as many hours as women, the court agreed
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16th Amendment
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Congress can collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived
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Theodore Roosevelt
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President that tried to distinguish the "good" corporations v. the "bad" corporations and pushed for more federal regulations on the economy
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William Henry Taft
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Pursued the Anti Trust Act. And said that John D. Rockefeller's oil company was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust act
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