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31 Cards in this Set
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Rise of optimism leads to?
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Rise of progess
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Antimonopoly
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fear of concentrated power and the urge to limit and disperse authority and wealth. helped empower goverment.
popular with workers farmers, middleclass |
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What ideas led to social reform?
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idea that humans are all part of a web of social relationships. the welfare of one is necessary for the welfare of all.
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Faith in knowledge
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Reverence for science and government
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Muckrakers
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journalists who brought spirit of reform by calling attention to social, political, and economic injustices
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Ida Tarbell
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journalist. study of Standard Oil Trust, brought attention to urban political machines
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Lincoln Steffens
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wrote influential expose of of political machine leaders
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Basic Progressive Impulses
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Opposition to monopoly, belief in need for social unity to face corruption and injustice, efficiency and organization
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Social Gospel
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a sense of outrage at social/economic injustice
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Father John Ryan
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worked to expand scope of Catholic welfare organizations
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Social Darwinists
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Argued that people's fortunes depended on their inherent "fitness" for survival, environment
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Settlement houses
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created to solve issue of overcrowded immigrant neighborhoods
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Hull House
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1889 Chicago, opened by Jane Addams, model for 400 settlement houses
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Rise of social science
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use of scientific techniques to study society and its institutions. created movement toward organization of middleclass.
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New middleclass
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puts high value on education and individual accomplishment
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Sense of new professionalism
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led to guarded entry to jobs, barring women, immigrants, African Americans
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Female dominated professions
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settlement houses, nursing, teaching, social work
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New Woman
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affected by social and economic. smaller family size, longer family life. kids in school longer, woman is less tied to home.
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Boston Marriages
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suffragettes who lived together, sometimes secretly romantic
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GFWC General Federation of Women's Clubs
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coordinated activites of local organizations
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Suffragettes advocated ________.
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Natural rights, including right to vote
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National American Women Suffrage Association
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gained strength from prominent leaders justifying "safe" suffrage
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Conservative argument for suffrage
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middleclass people thought that if other "base" groups could vote, so could "wellborn" women
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First state east of MO to embrace women's suffrage
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Illinois
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Years when NY and Michigan give women the right to vote
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1917, 1918
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Equal Rights Amendment
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Alice Paul's argument for prohibiton of any discrimination based on sex, not supported by other outstanding women's rights leaders
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adoption of secret ballot
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1880's+1890's most states adopt secret ballot, making it harder for bosses to monitor their party's votes
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Breaking party rule
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could be done by increasing power of people, permitting them to circumvent partisan institutions and express their will directly at polls, or by placing more power in the hands of nonpartisan, nonelective officials, insulated from political life.
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Galveston, TX
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new forms of governement were a success
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Commission Plan
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mayor and council were replaced by elected nonpartisan commission
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City manager plan
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elected officials hired an outside expert to take charge of the government
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