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Progressive Movement
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- it was an effort to cure many ills of American society that ahd developed during the great spurt of industrial growth in the las 1/4 of teh 19th century. called for tariff reform, strciter regulation of industrial combinations, women's suffrage, prohibition of child labor, and other reforms.
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John Dewey
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- he was an American philisopher, psychologist and educational reformer whsoe ideas have been influential in education and social reform. he was a representatvie of the progressive and progressive populist. He wrote mainly about education but also of expericne, nature... he considered schools and civil society as being major topics needing attention and reconstruction to encourgae intelligence. He wanted to ensure fully refromed public opinion.
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Scientific Management
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- was a theory of managment that analyzed the synthesized workflows. the main goal was to improve economic efficiency. It wanted to apply science to the engineering of processes and to managment.
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Ida Tarbell
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- she is an American teacher known as one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era. she wrote series and biographies. she became the first person to take on Standard Oil. BOOK: "The History of the Standard Oil Company"
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Seventeenth Amendment
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- established direct election of the US senators by popular vote. Senators were elcted bystate legislatures. it also alters the procedure for filling vacancies in the Senate, to be consistent with the method of election.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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- he wasd a leader of the republican party and the founder of the Progressive Party. he was the 26th president of the US and had an energetic personality. he attempted to strike a balance between employers and employees in labor disputes and pledged to give Americans a "Square Deal" that prized a person's character above his class.
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Trust busting
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- it referred to Theodore Roosevelt's policy of prosecuting monopolies, or "trusts" that violated federa antitrust law. it marked a major departure from previous administartions policies, which generally failed to enforce the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, and added momentum to the progressive reform movements of the eraly 1900's.
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Elkins Act
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- it authroized the Interstae Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates.the railroad companies were not permitted to offer rebates.
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Hepburn Act
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- it gave the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to set maximum railroad rates. this led to the discontinuation of free passes to loyal shippers. they coould view the railroads financial records.
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The Jungle
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- a novel written by journalist Upton Sinclair. he wrote it to point out the troubles of the working class and to show the corruption of the American meatpacking industry. it depicts in harsh tones poverty, absence of social programs, unpleasent living and working conditions.
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Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
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- it provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adultered food products and poisonosus patent medicines.
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Eugene v. Debs
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- he was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the intellectual labor union and the industrial workers of the world and several times candidate of the socialist party of American for president of the US. he is a well known socialist. He was a democrat and was later imprisoned as a leadt of ARU for failing to obey an injuction aganst the strike. he toght himself as a socialism in prison.
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Federal Reserve Act (1914)
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- it created the federal reserve system, the central banking system of the US of American, and granted it the legal authority to issue legal tender. it was signed by Woodrow Wilson
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Clayton Anti Trust
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- it was enacted to add further sustance to the US antitrust law regime by seeking to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipency.
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Federal Trade Comission (1914)
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- its principal mission was the pomotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of what regulators perceive to be harmfully anti-competitive business practices, such as coervice monopoly.
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Niagara Movement
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- it was a black civil organization founded in 1905 by a group led by WEB Du Bois. it named for the :mighty current" of change the group wanted to effect and Niagara Falls. it wa scall for opposition to racial segregation and disenfranchisement as well as policies of accommodation and concilation promoted by African American leader like Booker T. Washington.
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Booker T. Washington
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- he was an black American educator, author, orator and political leader. he wa spart of the last generation of slavery. he worked in Virginia in a variety of manual labor jobs before making his wat through Mapton Normal and Agricultural Institute.
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W.E.B. Dubois
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- he attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of the 20th century which was racism. He earned his PHD in History ar Harvard. he was the main leadr of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP.
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NAACP
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- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. it is an African-American civil rights organization in the US. its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.
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Alice Paul
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- she was an American Suffragette and activist. She led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in the passage of the 19th amendment in the US constitution.
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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- was a women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the 19th Amendment which gave the US women the right to vote in the 1920. she served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and wa sthe founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women.
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19th Amendment
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- it prohibits any US citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. it was a culmination of the women's suffrage movement.
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League of Women Voters
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- it was founded in 1920 to encourage participation in the political process and to educate voters about political issues and candidates.
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Meat Inspection Act
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- it requires the US department of agriculture to inspect all cattle, sheep, goats, and horses when slaughtered and processed into prducts for human consumption. in short, this cat made sure that meat was thoroughly inspected before reaching its consumers.
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16th Amendment
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- it allows congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on cencus results. it extempted incomce taxes from the constitutional requirements regarding direct taxes, after income taxes on rents, dividends and interest were ruled to be direct taxes.
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