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21 Cards in this Set
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Progressivism |
Believed in the idea of progress. Believed that society was capable of improvement and improvement=their destiny |
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Antimonopoly |
A reform impulse. Fear of concentrated power and the urge to limit and disperse authority and wealth |
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Faith in knowledge |
Many reformers believed education was more important than anything |
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Muckrakers |
Crusading journalists who began to direct public attention toward social, economic, and political injustices |
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Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens |
Ida: studied oil trust Lincoln: exposed boodlers in cities |
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The social gospel |
Concerned with redeeming the nation's cities. Popular with American protestanism |
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Father John Ryan |
Catholic liberal. Worked to expand the scope of Catholic social welfare organizations |
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Settlement house movement |
Helped make immigrant neighborhoods better. |
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Jane Adams and Hull House |
Hull House was a settlement house result of efforts of Jane Addams social worker |
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American Medical Associations |
Called for strict, scientific standards for admission to the practice of medicine, with doctors themselves serving as protectors of the standards |
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National Association of Manufacturers |
National organizations whose creation was supported by businessmen |
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Female dominated professions |
Settlement houses, social workers, teaching |
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General Federation of Womens Clubs |
Coordinated the activities of local organizations. Club movement allowed women to define a space for themselves in the public world without openly challenging the male dominating order |
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Women's trade union league |
Committed to persuading women to join unions. Raised money to support strikers, marched, bailed striking women out of jail |
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National Woman Suffrage Association |
For women suffrage |
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Nineteen Amendment |
Guaranteed political rights to women throughout the nation |
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Commission Plan |
Idk |
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City Manager Plan |
Where elected officials hire an outside expert to be city governor. To avoid corruption |
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Tom Johnson |
Reform mayor of Cleveland. Fought to lower street car cost to 3 cents |
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Initiative and referendum |
I:allowed reformers to turn around the state legislatures by submitting new legislation chosen by people R: provided a method by which actions of legislature could be returned to the electorate for approval. |
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Robert la Follette |
Governor of Wisconsin. Used his personal magnetism to widen public awareness of progressive goals. |
