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32 Cards in this Set
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Social Problems in the early 20th century
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-Child Labor
-Undemocratic political process -Alcohol and morality -Unregulated urban growth -Monopolized corporate industry |
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Who were the muckrakers?
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Journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life.
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What was the Meat Inspection Act?
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Act that enforced the sanitary act of meat packing. Required inspectors to look over factories.
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What was the Pure Food and Drug Act?
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Act banning the manufacture and sale of unsanitary food, and of drugs not prescribed by a doctor.
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What is Progressivism?
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A broad program of reforms that involved almost every facet of american life and touched most classes of people
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Point of democratic reform
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to take control of the political process away from the bosses and return it to the people
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Direct Primary
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democratic reform that allowed for the people to choose candidates for public through a special election
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Initiative
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a bill originated by the people rather that the lawmakers placed on a ballot
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Initiative Referendum
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A vote of the initiative
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Recall
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a democratic reform allowing for voters to remove public officials from elected positions by forcing them to face another election before the end of their term
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17th Amendment
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allows voters to nominate senatorial candidates in direct primaries
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what is Taylorism
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the breaking of manufacturing tasks into smaller parts
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4 goals of Progressivism
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-social welfare
-moral improvement -economic reform -fostering efficiency |
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Social Welfare Groups
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-YMCA
-Salvation Army |
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What did the Social Gospel and settlement house aim to do?
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help the poor through community centers, churches, and social services
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Florence Kelley
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chief inspectors of factories in Illinois who helped pass the Illinois Factory Act
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What was the Illinois Factory Act
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act prohibiting child labor and limiting women's working hours
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what was prohibition
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the banning of alcoholic beverages
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what is municiple government
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government in which experts run the city government
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what was scientific management
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the study of new methods to improve efficiency in factories
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Progressive republican governor of Wisconsin also known as "fighting bob" who targeted the railroad industry
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Robert M. La Follette
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Texas governor who drove illegal insurance companies from the state
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James S. Hogg
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what was the Sherman Antitrust Act
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act that made monopolies illegal
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Woman who took a hatchet with her into saloons and condemned those inside and smashed their bottles
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Carrie Nation
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Leader of the Womens Christian Temperance Union
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Francis Willard
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made the sell and consumption of alcohol illegal with exception of religious ceremonies
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18th Amendment
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amendment that repealed the 18th amendment
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21st Amendment
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trade that carried about half of all women industrial workers
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garment trade
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Leading proponent of womens suffrage
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Susan B. Anthony
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3 part strategy for suffrage
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-convince legislatures
-court cases testing 14th amendment -push for a national constitutional amendment |
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1910 states with womens suffrage
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Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Washington, and Idaho
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amendment granting women the right to vote
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19th amendment
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