Progressive Movement

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Progressive Movement

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What: a period of social activism and reform
When:1890s to the 1920s
Significance: The main goal of the Progressive movement was purification of government

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john Dewey

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Who:an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform.
When: the first half of the 20th century
Significance: Dewey was an important early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology. He was a major representative of the progressive and progressive populist philosophies of schooling

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Scientific Managment

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What:a theory of management that analyzed and synthesized workflows.
When:1910's
Siginificance:Its main objective was improving economic efficiency, especially labor productivity.

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Ida Tarbell

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Who:an American teacher, author and journalist.
When:1904
Significance:She wrote many notable magazine series and biographies

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Seventeenth amendment

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What: An amendment
When:April 8, 1913.
Significance: direct election of United States Senators by popular vote

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Who:he 26th President of the United States
When:1901-1909
significance:leader of the progressive movement

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Trust busting

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What:President Theodore Roosevelt's policy of prosecuting monopolies, or "trusts," that violated federal antitrust law.
When:1900's
Significance:Roosevelt's "trust-busting" policy marked a major departure from previous administrations' policies, which had generally failed to enforce the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, .

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Elkins act

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What: a United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887.
When: 1903
Significance: The Elkins Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates

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hepburn act

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What:a United States federal law
When:1906
Significance: gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum railroad rates.

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the jungle

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What:a novel written by journalist Upton Sinclair.
When: 1906
Significance: Sinclair wrote the novel to point out the troubles of the working class and to show the corruption of the American meatpacking industry during the early-20th century

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pure food and drug act 1906

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What:a United States federal law
When:1906
Significance: provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines

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meat inspection act

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What:An act
When:1906
Significance:requires the United States Department of Agriculture to inspect all cattle, sheep, goats, and horses when slaughtered and processed into products for human consumption

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16th amendment

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What:An amendment of the U.S.
When:1913
Significance:allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results

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Eugene V. Debs

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Who:an American union leader
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Significance: one of the best-known socialists living in the United States

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federal reserve act 1914

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what: the Act of Congress that created the Federal Reserve System,
when: 1914
significance:the central banking system of the United States of America, and granted it the legal authority to issue legal tender.

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Clayton anti trust

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what: was enacted in the United States to add further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime by seeking to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency.
when: 1914
significance:That regime started with the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, the first Federal law outlawing practices considered harmful to consumers

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federal track commission 1914

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what: started the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a bipartisan body of five members appointed by the President of the United States for seven year terms
when: 1914
significance:This commission was authorized to issue Cease and Desist orders to large corporations to curb unfair trade practices. This Act also gave more flexibility to the US Congress for judicial matters.

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Niagara movement

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what: Movement was a black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group led by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter.
when: 1905
significance:The Niagara Movement was a call for opposition to racial segregation and disenfranchisement as well as policies of accommodation and conciliation promoted by African American leaders such as Booker T. Washington

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booker t. Washington

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who:was an American educator, author, orator, and political leader.
when: 1890-1915
significance:He was the dominant figure in the African American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915.

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WEB dubois

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who:was an intellectual leader in the United States as sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor.
when: 20th century
significance:Biographer David Levering Lewis wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism—scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity."

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NAACP

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what: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,
when: 1909
significance:an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909.

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Alice Paul

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who: an American suffragette and activist.
when: 1920
significance:she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920

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Carrie Chapman Catt

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who:women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920.
when: 1920
significance:Catt served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and was the founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women.

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19th amendment

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what: the United States Constitution
when: 1920
significance:prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex.

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league of women voters

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what: American political organization founded in 1920
when: 1920
significance:Carrie Chapman Catt during the last meeting of the National American Woman Suffrage Association approximately six months before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote.