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Progressive movement |
An early-20th-century reform movement seeking to return control of the government to the people, to restore economic opportunities, and to correct injustices in American life |
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Florence Kelley |
Political activists, advocate for women, children -helps pass Illinois factory act (1893) prohibiting child labor, limiting women's hours. |
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Prohibition |
The banning of the manufacture, sale, and possession of alcoholic beverages. |
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) |
Woman's Christian Temperance Union spearheads prohibition crusade. |
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Muckraker |
Journalists who expose corruption in politics, business |
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Lincoln Steffens / The Shame of Cities |
The Shame of Cities is a book by Lincoln Steffens. Published in 1904, it is a collection of articles which Steffens had written for McClure's Magazine. |
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Scientific management |
time and motion studies applied to workplace
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Robert M. La Follette |
Robert M. La Follette is 3-term governor, then senator of Wisconsin. |
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Initiative |
bill proposed by people, not lawmakers, put on ballots.
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Referendum |
voters, not legislature, decide if initiative becomes law
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Recall |
voters remove elected official through early election
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Sixteenth Amendment |
Allows the congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the united states census. |
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Seventeenth Amendment |
permits popular election of senators instead of state legislatures Selection. |
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Suffrage |
the right to vote. |
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Susan B. Anthony |
the proponent of national American woman suffrage associations |
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National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) |
The merging of National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) |
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Upton Sinclair/ The Jungle |
began research for a novel in 1904, his focus was the human condition in the stock-yards of Chicago./ The book was published in 1906, however, the book was sickening with the conditions of the meatpacking industry. |
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Theodore Roosevelt |
Theodore Roosevelt has sickly childhood, drives self in athletics. his ambitions rises him through the New York politics to become governor.Then later became president at the age of 42
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Square Deal |
Roosevelt's progressive reforms |
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Meat Inspection Act |
Roosevelt pushes for Meat Inspection Act:
- dictates sanitary requirements -creates federal meat inspection program |
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Pure Food and Drug Act |
halts sale of contaminated food, medicine -requires truth in labeling |
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Conservation/ John Muir |
Roosevelt sets aside forest reserves, sanctuaries, national parks because he believes conservation part preservation, part development for public.
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1902 Coal Strike |
When 140,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania went on strike and demanded a 20 percent raise, a nine-hour workday, and the right to organize a union, and the mine operators refused to bargain. |
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Gifford Pinchot |
Gifford Pinchot, 1905 was the first Chief of the united states forest service |
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William Howard Taft |
1908, Republican William Howard Taft wins with Roosevelt's support |
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Bull Moose Party |
Progressives form Bull Moose Party; nominate Roosevelt, call for: - direct election of Senators - more voter participation in government (initiative, referendum, recall) -woman suffrage -labor legislation, business controls |
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Woodrow Wilson |
Wilson was lawyer, professor, president of Princeton, NJ governor As president, focuses on trusts, tariffs, and high finance. |
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Carrie Chapman Catt |
Head of National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), stresses organization, lobbying. National Woman's Party aggressively pressures for suffrage amendment (picket White House) Work of patriotic women in war effort influences polticians |
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Clayton Antitrust Act |
stops companies buying stock to form monopoly . Unions not subject to antitrust laws
Ends injunctions against strikers unless threaten irreparable damage. |
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Federal Reserve System |
new "watchdog" agency
- investigates regulatory violations - requires periodic reports from corporations - ends unfair business practices |
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Nineteenth Amendment |
grants women right to vote. |