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71 Cards in this Set
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Segregation in schools, but equal
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Minor vs. Happersett
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states DO have the right to deny women the right to vote
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Interstate commerce act
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take away control of the railroad from overcharging farmers.
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who is Charles J Guiteau
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Shot president Garfield
wanted a pres. that would give him a federal job. |
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what is the the Pendleton Act
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Give federal jobs based on merit.
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Who is Thomas Reed
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Speaker of the house at the time, pushed through a lot of legislation.
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McKinley Tariff Act (1890)
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Raised tariff rates to an average of 48%
Drove costs up. |
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Dependent Pensions Act(1890)
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pension assistance for all disabled (those unable to do manual labor) former Union soldiers. Benefits were also expanded to veterans' parents, widows and children.
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
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Huge corporation/ regulate
Prohibitted combinations in restraint of trade. |
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U.S. vs. E.C. Knight CO (1895)
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constituted combinations in restraint of trade
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Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
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Doubled the amount of silver the treasury would purchase.
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Farmers Alliance
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represent farmers especially from South and West America
(included miners) wanted supply of $ to go up and more $$$ for the crops. |
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Colored Farmers National Alliance
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o educate them on how to become better farmers, it established a weekly newspaper, the National Alliance///exchanges in the ports///The alliance raised funds to provide for longer public school terms, and in some places it founded academies///funds to help sick and disabled members.
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Who is Mary E. Lease
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-Irish
-emigrated from County Monaghan during the Famine -Her father and older brother died as Union soldiers in the Civil War -lost everything in the financial panic of 1873 -prohibition - woman suffrage - joining the labor movement and then the Farmers' Alliance and Populist Party. -lawyer and lecture |
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Who was the Populist Candidate of 1892
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James B Weaver
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Panic of 1893
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-Unemployment up to 20%
-banks close |
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Who is Jacob S Coxey
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led protest group to Washington arguing for jobs
-and for paper money -he was arrested for walking on the grass |
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Pullman Strike
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-Pullman Railroad Car makers
-income down, costs up -Eugene V Debs leads a Strike -****court injuction orders workers back to their work |
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Eugene V Debs
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Ignored the Court Injuction during Pullman strike and led another strike
-was put into jail -ran for president |
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In re Debs (1895)
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court RULING that court injuctions for stopping strikes were okay.
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Wilson-Gormon Tariff Act (1894)
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Lowered tariffs to 41%/ 2% income tax
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William Jennings Bryan
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Supported the causes of the rural agrarians
-against powerful banks -against railroads -against industries in the East -gave the Cross of Gold Speech |
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"Cross of Gold" speech
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given by William J Bryan
-issue was whether to endorse the free coinage of silver at a ratio of silver to gold of 16 to 1 |
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Gold standard Act(1900)
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-An Act To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the panty of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes
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Mark Hanna
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- favoured a policy of high protective tariffs on foreign goods to protect home producers
-Marcus Alonzo Hanna was elected to the Senate in March 1897 |
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Clayton Anti-Trust Act
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ppl COULD go on strike
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Jane Adams
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-classic reformer
-the hull house |
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Samuel McClure
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Muckraking journals
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Lincoln Steffens
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-shame of the cities
--big businesses - combined with gov't to defraud the public. |
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why did the progressives do what they do? what were their main concerns?
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the effects of industrialization
-conditions of life -better ways to humanize and regulate big business ######1 |
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Ida Tarbell
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-corrupt practices of oil companies
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Upton Sinclair
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meat packing industry (the Jungle)
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what were their 6 main characteristics
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1.concern of the effects of industrialization
2.optimism about human nature, possibilities of progress 3.thought it equally important to figure out problems of the people 4.wanted involuntary means of achieving reform 5.desire for eveanglical protestant 6.touched the nation as a whole. |
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Theodore Roosevelt was involved with new ___________
or the _______ __________ |
Nationalism ; Square Deal
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what were the Three C's of Roosevelts "regulation"
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1. Control of Corporations
2. Consumer Protection 3. Conservation of Natural resources |
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What was the Hepburn Act
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-more authority to Interstate Commerce Commision
-if they fined you, you payed, you had to prove your innocence |
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what did the progressives value?
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a system, predicticability and efficiency.
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what was the Elkins act
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outlawed Rebate practices, fined railroads, and shippers if they went against the prohibition
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what was the Anthracite Coal strike?
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-western Penn
-miners wanted a 20% pay raise. -workday down from 10 hrs to 9 -lasted many months -took away coal from homes, big businesses, and even hospitals. |
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what is the 16th ammendment?
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legalization of federal income tax
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what happened because of the Anthracite Coal strike?
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10% pay raise
-9 hour workday |
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what were the 3 companies
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big railroad monopoly
American Tobacco Comp. Standard Oil |
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what is the 17th ammendment?
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citizens could now vote for the US senator
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meat Inspection Act (1906)
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-federal inspectors had to supervise process from corral to can
-outlawed dangerous additives in meat products |
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Pure food and drug act (1906)
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say what you're putting into food and drugs.
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what was the 18th ammendment
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prohibition of alcohol
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Newlands Act (1902)
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provided for sale of land west of the Miss. R, and helped with the irrigation process.
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what was the 19th ammendment
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womens right to vote
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Woodrow Wilson Supported the new _________________
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Freedom
(keyword : competition) |
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"triple wall of Privilege" (1912)
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small companies and you facilitate competition for them
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underwood tariff act (1913)
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lowered tariff 15%
-increased competition -IMPLEMENTED federal Income Tax (ammendment 16) |
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Robert Lafallette
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Governer in Wisconson, leader in movement to get states more goverment power.
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Federal Reserve Act (1913)
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-americas first banking system since 1832
-12 new regional banks |
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Clayton Anti-trust Act
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-agaisnt monopolies
-made big business men personally responsible for driving out a success -legalized strikes |
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what are the three things used to give the PEOPLE a voice
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initiative
referendum recall |
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Frederick Winslow Taylor
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strove to extract maximum efficiency from each worker
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who owned about 85 % of the oil business
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Rockerfeller
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what is intiative
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ppl can put legislation on the ballot and vote for it
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Who were progressives
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middle class
urban city dwellers better educated were interested in fixing things like corruption in businesses and gov. |
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what is referendum
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voting on the intiative
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What did the progressives want to fix?
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monopoly
-corruption in business and gov -social injustice |
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what is recall?
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ro get rid of a gov't officer
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Who ran in the election of 1912
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theodore roosevelt
woodrow wilson Howard Taft |
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Louis Brandeis
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used socialogical data to support the state of Oregon
-known as the peoples attorney -attorney in the Muller Vs Oregon and won |
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Lochner vs New York
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struck down NY for setting the maximum hours "hours should be btwn master and employees
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Muller Vs Oregon (1905)
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-started in laundromat
-women, because weaker, deserved special rights in workplace -Curt muller, owner of Laundromat -women got fired |
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Aakins vs childrens hospital (1923)
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Muller vs oregon --not true
because of 19th ammendment |
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William James
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wrote Pragmatism
-keen on efficiency |
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Pragmatism
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Pragmatism is characterized by the insistence on consequences, utility and practicality as vital components of meaning and truth. Pragmatism objects to the view that human concepts and intellect represent reality, and therefore stands in opposition to both formalist and rationalist schools of philosophy
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Margaret Sanger
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Helped with invention of birthcontrol
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populist party
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-wanted federal income tax
-direct election of senetors -gov ownership of communications devices. |
