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11 Cards in this Set
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Progressive Movement- four major goals
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-Protecting social welfare
-Promoting moral improvements -Creating economic reform -Fostering efficiency (e.g manuf., educ., govt) |
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Prohibition
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During the Progressive era, Prohibition relates to the banning of the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcoholic beverages as codified in the 18th Amendment.
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WCTU
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Women's Christian Temperance Union favored abolition of sale of alcohol. A WCTU notorious person = Carrie A. Nation of Kansas. She used vandalism as a way of protesting the sale of alcohol. She entered bars and smashed alcohol bottles with her ax. Not all WCTU members were violent like Ms. Nation.
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Florence Kelley
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Became an advocate for improving the lives of woman and children--esp. labor laws for children; education of children; women's right to vote; civil rights --e.g. helped start and worked with NAACP (see also WEB DuBois card)
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Muckrakers
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Journalists and authors who wrote about the dark side of business esp. unsafe food and medicine sold on open market without government regulation. One of the most famous perhaps was Upton Sinclair who wrote The Jungle.
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Scientific Management
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Used time and motion studies to improve efficiency in factories (e.g assembly line)
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James S. Hogg
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Governor of Texas (1891-95) who drove illegal insurance companies out of the State of Texas. Known as one of the reformers of the Progressive Era.
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Robert M. La Follette
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Served as a US Congressman, Governor, and then US Senator from Wisconsin. He spent his public life working to clean-up politics (e.g. political bosses), to fight against railway trusts, object to US entry in WWI, and oppose the League of Nations. He ran for President of the United States and worked for farmers rights, workers rights, etc.
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National Child Labor Committee
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Led to Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916, prohibited the distribution and sale of goods made by children across interstate boundaries. (note: Act declared unconstitutional by US Supreme Court in 1918)
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Reforming elections in progressive era: know 3 reforms
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3 reforms - ballot initiative; referendum, and recall (discuss each)
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17th Amendment
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Changed Article 1, Section 3 of US Constitution. US Senators from each state were no longer elected by state legislature members, rather US Senators were elected by the registered voters of a state.
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