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35 Cards in this Set
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Progressivism
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Lasted from the mid 1890s through World War 1. Reflected worry about the state of society, the effects of industrialism, and the urbanization, social disorder, and the host of other issues.
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RE Old
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The considered old society of America.
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Model T
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The first best selling model built by Henry Ford. Debuting in 1908.
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Tin Lizzie
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Henry Ford's "motorcar for the multitudes"
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United Fruit
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An empire of plantations and steamships in the Carribean, exploited oppurtunities created by victory in the war with Spain.
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General Electric
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Establi8shed with the design to improve in light bulbs and inventes the cathose - ray tube. Wroked on earlier modeled radios and tinkered with atomic theories.
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Fredrick Winslow Taylor
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Scientist that wrote, "The Principles f Scientific Management" and classified the rules in law and formula.
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'Principles of Scientific Management"
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"rules, laws, and formulae"
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Triangel Shirtwaist Co.
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Nation Wide attention with thier unsafe working conditions and when a fire broke out, most of the workers died.
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WTUL
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Women's Trade Union League; a silent protest held by them in a funeral procession for the working conditions of the women in the factory.
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RFD
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A mailing route that delivered more that one billion newsppers and magazines in 1911.
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Rockefeller Sanitary Commission
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began a sanitation campaign that eventually led to the wipe out the hookworm disease.
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Newlands Act
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The secretary of the interior formed the US Reclamation Service, which gathered a staff of thousands of engineers and technicians.
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David Graham Phillips
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A novelist troubled by womens oppression. He published the HUNGRY HEART and he was assassinated for trying to do something.
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Sheppard - Towner Act
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Also the Maternity and INfancy Protection Act. It helped fund maternity and pediatric clinics.
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Margaret Sanger
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Fought for the right for women to make thier own decision based on contraceptions.
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Niagra Movement
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Focused on the equal rights of educationg African Americans.
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NAACP
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. To try and stop disanfranchisement, poor jobs, and segregation.
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Guinn V, US
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The supreme court over turned the Grandfather Clause.
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Buchanon V Worley
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Struck a law in Lousville that required residential segregation.
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padroni
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labor agents among the italions, greeks, and syrians.
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Leonidas Skliris
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"the czar of greeks"
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Birds of Passage
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Immigrants that came to the the US during a populous time to make money, and when the slack season came about went back to their coutries.
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Americanization
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Programs to have immigrants learn English and become "americans".
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coyotes
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Mexican Labor Agents
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barrios
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spanish immigrant groups and form enclaves in cities
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Samuel Gompers
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his American Federation of Labor increased from 250 000 members to 1.7 millions.
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IWW ( Wobblies )
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Legendary poet Joe HIll.
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Bill Haywood
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founder of the Western Federation of Miners.
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Five Dollar Day
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henry ford used this term for the doubling of the age for common labors, reduced the working day from nine hours to eight, and established a personnel department to plave workers in appropriate jobs.
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Amoskeag
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a monthly magazine of employees.
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irving Berlin
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DW Berlin
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ASCAP
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American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers to protect musical rights and royalties.
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Ashcan School
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Realists painters kown to critics as ashcan schools, relishing the citys excitement and wanted to paint the truth and strength.
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