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20 Cards in this Set
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Jane Addams
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Founded the Hull House in Chicago. Offered career choices to the young and educated woman.
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Florence Kelley
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Wrote a report about the conditions in sweat shops and the effect it had on women and children. (8 hour work day, children under 14 couldn't work)
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Samuel Jones
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Samuel "Golden Rule" Jones. Believed in changing policies instead of the structure in the city governments. (municipal ownership, built parks and schools, minimum wage)
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Robert LaFollette
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"Fighting Bob" Wisconsin senator. Wisonsin idea- using academic resources to benefit people
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Hiram Johnson
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"Kick the Southern Pacific Railroad Out of Politics" campaign. Laws regulating utilities and child labor, eight-hour work day, and providing worker compenstaiton plan.
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Jacob Riis
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MUCKRAKER- "How the Other Half Lives", book about the life of the poor in New York
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Lincoln Steffans
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MUCKRAKER- worked for McLure's magazine. "The Shame of the Cities" Wrote articles exposing the graft that was occuring in American politics
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Ida Tarbell
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"History of Standard Oil Company" Exposed Rockefeller and his unfair buisness practices that got rid of all of his competitors
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Upton Sinclair
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MUCKRAKER- "The Jungle" Book that exposed the unsanitation that occured int the meat packing plants
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S.S. McClure
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Started McClure's magazine. Hired reporters to write about the nation's social problems.
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John Dewey
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Philosopher that wrote "The School and the Society" and "Democracy and Education" Believed schools should be embryonic communities that allowed children to be creative and particpate
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Louis Brandeis
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First Jewish Supreme Court Appointee. Used statitsitical, sociological, and econmonic data to support his arguments.
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John Muir
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Preservationist. defended the value of the american wildreness. President of the Sierra club and driving force behind Yosemite Act
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Gifford Pinchot
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Conservationist. Chosen by T.R to head U.S. Forest Service. took middle ground between preservation and unrestricted commercial developement.
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Margaret Sanger
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Birth control advocate. Believed contraception should be used as a way of advancing sexual freedom for middle class women as well as working class who had to many children to work
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Eugene Debs
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Socialist candidate for the election of 1912. Took credit for pushing Roosevelt and Wilson toward the left. popular amoung labor movements.
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William Haywood
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"Big Bill" miner who was a spokesman for the IWW or wobblies. Emphasized that no one would be excluded from the Wobblies unlike the AFL
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Booker T. Washington
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Urged blacks to focus on economic improvement and self-reliance. Also work on their vocational skills. Popular with white progressives because he stressed cleanliness and personal morality and seperation.
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WEB DuBois
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Wanted equality NOW. double consnious, struggle between african and american heritage. top tenth. Niagra Movement which led to creation of NAACP
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George Plunkitt
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head of Tammany Hall political machine. believed in honest graft.
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