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Progressive Movement
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-an effort to cure many of the ills of American society that had developed during the great spurt of industrial growth in the last quarter of the 19th century
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John Dewey
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-was an American psychologist, philosopher, educator, social critic and political activist
-was an important early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology |
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Scientific Management
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-Scientific management (also called Taylorism or the Taylor system) is a theory of management that analyzes and workflows, with the objective of improving labor productivity
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Ida Tarbell
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-was an American teacher, author and journalist.
-known as one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era -work known in modern times as "investigative journalism" -wrote many notable magazine series and biographies -best-known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company, which was listed as No. 5 in a 1999 list by the New York Times of the top 100 works of 20th-century American journalism. |
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Seventee3nth Amendment
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-established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote
-choosing of Senators from the state legislatures to the people of the states |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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-the 26th President of the United States (1901-1909)
-his energetic personality, range of interests and achievements, leadership of the Progressive Movement, and his "cowboy" image and robust masculinity -leader of the Republican Party and founder of the short-lived Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party of 1912. |
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Trust Busting
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-government activity designed to break up trusts or monopolies.
-Theodore Roosevelt is the U.S. president most associated with dissolving trusts. -William Howard Taft signed twice as much trust-busting legislation during his presidency |
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Elkins Act
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-1903 United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
-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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-1906 United States federal law that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum railroad rates.
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The Jungle
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-1906 novel written by journalist Upton 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 -novel depicts in harsh tones poverty, absence of social programs, unpleasant living and working conditions, and hopelessness prevalent among the working class, which is contrasted with the deeply-rooted corruption on the part of those in power |
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Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
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-June 30, 1906 is a United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines
-arose due to public education and exposés from Muckrakers such as Upton Sinclair and Samuel Hopkins Adams, social activist Florence Kelley, researcher Harvey W. Wiley, and President Theodore Roosevelt. |
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Meat Inspection Act
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-1906 substantially amended by the 1967 Wholesome Meat Act requires the United States Department of Agriculture to inspect all cattle, sheep, goats, and horses when slaughtered and processed into products for human consumption
-made sure that meat was thoroughly inspected before reaching its consumers -primary goals of the law are to prevent adulterated or misbranded livestock and products from being sold as food, and to ensure that meat and meat products (as well as poultry) are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions |
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Sixteenth Amendment
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allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results
-exempted income taxes from the constitutional requirements regarding direct taxes, after income taxes on rents, dividends, and interest were ruled to be direct taxes in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895) -ratified on February 3, 1913. |
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Eugene V. Debs
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-was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
-several times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States |
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Federal Reserve Act (1914)
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-is the act of Congress that created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, which was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson
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Clayton Anti Trust
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-provides further clarification and substance to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
-attempts to prohibit certain actions that lead to anti-competitiveness -price fixing and unfair business practices are addressed in the Act |
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Federal Trade Commission (1914)
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-(FTC)
-an independent agency of the United States federal government that maintains fair and free competition; enforces federal antitrust laws; educates the public about identity theft -encourage free enterprise and prevent restraint of trade and monopolies |
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Niagara Movement
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-black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group led by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter
-named for the "mighty current" of change the group wanted to effect and Niagara Falls, which was near where the first meeting took place in July 1905 |
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Booker t Washington
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-was an American political leader, educator, orator and author
-was the dominant figure in the African American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915 |
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W.E. B Dubois
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-was an intellectual leader in the United States as sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor
-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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-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
-usually abbreviated as NAACP and pronounced N-double-A-C-P, -is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality |
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Alice Paul
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-was an American suffragist leader.
-Along with her close friend Lucy Burns and others -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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-was a woman's suffrage leader
-elected president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) twice -her first term was from 1900 to 1904 and her second term was from 1915 to 1920 |
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19th Amendment
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-Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation
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League Of Women Voters
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-an American political organization founded in 1920 by 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 |
