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30 Cards in this Set
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John D. Rockefeller |
-“Man of oil” -Founded the standard oil company -gave 1/2 of his earnings away |
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Andrew Carnegie |
-“Man of steel” -known for organization -climbed industrial companiesup |
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Rosevelt |
-help to fight Spanish American war -influence big business trusts -Commissioned for nature conservation |
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Hiram Johnson |
-wanted to include government -gave power to the people -compensated for workers -remove corrupt workers -Founder and chairman of progression policy |
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Washington Gladden |
-Government should regulate the workers -Help those mistreated by industrialization |
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WEB Du Bois |
-Encourage black information -wrote for the New York globe -believed writing could help further change |
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Jane Addams |
-set up settlement houses -support women suffrage -help immigrants adjust to American society -hull House, 19th amendment |
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Settlement house |
Where reformers work to provide help for immagrants |
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Upton Sinclair |
A socialist who wrote the jungle with intent of change |
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The jungle |
A fiction book dramatizing problems and safety and health of workers. The significance was it was a model of progressive success at the national level and other reformers followed in Sinclair’s footsteps |
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The knights of labor |
-A open union where anyone can join -they wanted everyone in a single union and equal pay for equal work -Significance: failure of open union demonstrates difficulty of unionizing unskilled workers |
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The American Federation of labor |
-craft union -call me skilled workers could join a smaller union to improve wages for white skilled men -significance: success for this union set pattern for union formation in USA around skills |
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Chinese exclusion act |
-Banned future Chinese immigration -Significance: first anti-iMic granola aimed at specific ethnic group |
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Social Darwinism |
So Cytie should do as little as possible to interfere with peoples success: survival of the fittest |
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Laissez-faire |
Government should not interfere with private business: strong will succeed
When government does not interfere it will bring wealth and economic growth
Dominate capitalism |
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Vertical consolidation |
-gaining control of different businesses that make up all phases of a product development -Control costs and increase profits |
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Horizontal consolidation |
Gathering different firms in same business and putting them under one organization
Significance: Rockefeller could swing by out all competitors and on their stock |
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Progressive |
Political parties who believed in government getting more involved and more efficient ways of living
Reformers of the industrial era |
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Gospel of wealth |
Which had the duty to get back to charity |
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Trusts |
Powerful but indirect control of a company |
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Sherman anti-trust act |
This outlawed any combination of companies that restrained interstate trade
Law restrain trusts if it disrupted the Congress |
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Populists |
The third-party mostly made by farmers who felt left behind as a nation |
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16th amendment |
National income tax |
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17th amendment |
Popular election of Senators
More direct representation of democracy |
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18th amendment |
Prohibition US ban on manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol |
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19th amendment |
Women’s right to vote |
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Initiative and referendum |
Initiative: citizens can create new laws if they get a certain amount of signatures
Referendum: voters to except or reject a law passed only by state level |
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Social gospel |
A Christian motivated way of progressive thinking: helping all Even the poor |
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National Association advancement of colored people
N.A.A.C.P. |
Influential civil rights movement group: 1913, Du Bois |
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The homestead strike |
Month long strike between workers unions, the private security, and state militia
Significance: example of how the government sided with business in the industrial era |
