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Social Darwinism |
The application of Charles Darwin's theory of biological evolution to society, holding that the fittest and wealthiest survive, the weak and the poor perish, and government action is unable to alter this "natural" process. |
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Jane Addams |
Founded one of the first settlement houses, Hull House, in Chicago in 1889. |
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Progressivism |
A term that encompasses a wide spectrum of social movements that include environmentalism, labor, agrarianism, anti-poverty, peace, anti-racism, civil rights, women's rights, animal rights, social justice and political ideologies such as anarchism, communism, socialism, social democracy. |
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Theodore Roosevelt |
Started the term muckrakers. Viewed presidency as a "bully pulpit" (a platform from which he could exhort Americans to reform their society). He was fond of nature, scholarship, and pushed for a effective government because he believed that was the solution to social programs. |
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Muckraking |
Journalism exposing economic, social, and political evils, so named by Theodore Roosevelt for it's "raking the muck" of American society. |
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Upton Sinclair |
Wrote the novel "The Jungle" in 1906, a socialist tract set among Chicago packinghouse workers, exposing the filthy sanitation and abysmal working conditions. |
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Muller v. Oregon |
The court upheld an Oregon law limiting maximum hours for working women |
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16th amendment of 1913 |
Authorized a federal income tax |
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Woodrow Wilson |
The 28th president. Ordered the U.S Army into Colorado after the United Mine Worker's strike turned violent. |
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Federal Reserve Act 1913 |
The 1913 law that revised banking and currency to existing limited government replication through the creation of the Federal Reserve System. |
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Clayton Antitrust Act |
Replaced the old Sherman Act of 1890 as the nation's basic antitrust law. It exempted unions from being construed as illegal combinations in restraint of trade, and it forbad federal courts from issuing injunctions against strikers |
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Keating-Owen Child Labor Act |
The act banned the sale of products from any factory, shop or cannery, that employed children under the age of 14. |
