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31 Cards in this Set
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Progressivism |
believed that new ideas and honest, efficient government could bring social justice |
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Muckrakers |
socially conscious writers who exposed the social ills of society |
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Upton Sinclair |
wrote The Jungle, which exposed the unsanitary working conditions of the meat packing industry |
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Jacob Riis |
took pictures that exposed the horrors of slum life; How the Other Half Lives
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Settlement Houses
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community center designed to support and help poor immigrants
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Jane Addams
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opened the Hull House in Chicago
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Florence Kelley
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formed National Child Labor Committee; lobbied for a ban on child labor
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
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had a fire where 146 workers died
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Direct Primary
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an election in which citizens themselves vote to select nominees
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Recall
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allowed people the ability to remove politicians from power
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Initiative
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gives people the power to put an issue directly on the ballot
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Referendum
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gave people the power to reject laws
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Mueller vs. Oregon
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SC ruled that laws could limit the hours of women
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Temperance Movement |
improved family life by banning alcohol (believed men were abusive when drinking)
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Carrie Chapman Catt |
President of NAWSA
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lobby for an amendment; go state to state to get the vote |
2 Prong Attack for Women Suffrage |
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Alice Paul |
Founder of the National Women's Party |
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Americanization |
effort by progressives to make immigrants more "American"
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Social Darwinism |
belief that some races were "more advanced" than others
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Urban League |
focused on poor workers because of the growing migration of blacks from rural to urban
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Square Deal |
Teddy Roosevelt's reform policies
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New Freedom |
Woodrow Wilson's plan for strict control of corporation
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Bull Moose Party
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the party that Teddy Roosevelt created to run against Taft
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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prevented trusts; TR sued corporations that violated it
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Rational Use |
forests should be protected so they can grow into suitable lumber
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Urbanization |
the progress by which towns and cities are formed and become larger as more and more people begin living there
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Government involvement |
Progressives believed was the only entity big enough to fix social problems |
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Catt= had two prong attack, not forcefulPaul= more radical; protest marches, hunger strikes |
Compare and Contrast Catt and Paul's approach |
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political reform, reforming big businesses, reduce gap between the poor and wealthy, better working conditions, end of slums |
Goals of the Progressives |
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TR- more progressive, more forceful, square deal, trust busting Taft- not progressive, wanted an income tax, opposite of TR, republican |
TR ---> Taft |
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TR- progressive, Square Deal, trust busting Wilson- even more progressive, big business |
TR ---> Wilson |
