Chapter 18 Flashcards

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progressivism

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political attitude favoring or advocating changes or reform through governmental action

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muckrakers

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closely associated with reform-oriented journalists who wrote largely for popular magazines, continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting,

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mccure magazine

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an American literary and political magazine, in June 1893. Selling at the low price of 15 cents

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lincoln steffens

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journalist at the New York Evening Post.

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ida tarbell

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was an American teacher, author and journalist. She was known as one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era,

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ray stannard baker

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also known by his pen name David Grayson, was an American journalist and author born in Lansing, Michigan

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theodore dreiser

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was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code,

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edith wharton

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was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer.

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herbert croly

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was an intellectual leader of the Progressive Movement as an editor, and political philosopher and a co-founder of the magazine The New Republic in early twentieth-century America.

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freedom of contract

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is the freedom of individuals and corporations to form contracts without government restrictions.

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closed shop

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form of union security agreement under which the employer agrees to only hire union members, and employees must remain members of the union at all times in order to remain employed

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socialism

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is an economic system in which the means of production are either state owned or commonly owned and controlled cooperatively;

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open shop

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form of union security agreement under which the employer agrees to only hire union members,

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Florence Kelley

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the daughter of United States congressman, William D. Kelley, was born on 12th September, 1859.

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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

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was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York and resulted in the fourth highest loss of life from an industrial accident in U.S. history.

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Rose Schneiderman

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was a prominent United States labor union leader, socialist, and feminist of the first part of the twentieth century.

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Muller vs. Oregon

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was a landmark decision in United States Supreme Court history, as it justifies both sex discrimination and usage of labor laws during the time period

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Louis D. Brandeis

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was an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939.

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Samuel Gompers

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was an English-born American cigar maker who became a labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history

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International Ladies Garment Workers Union

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was once one of the largest labor unions in the United States, one of the first U.S. unions to have a primarily female membership, and a key player in the labor history of the 1920s and 1930s

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Industrial Workers of the World

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is an international union. At its peak in 1923, the organization claimed some 100,000 members in good standing, and could marshal the support of perhaps 300,000 workers. Its

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William Big Bill Haywood

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was a founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW

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Prohibition

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is the practice of prohibiting the manufacture, transportation, import, export, sale, and consumption of alcohol and alcoholic beverages.

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Lawrence Veiller

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are tenements built in New York City after the Tenement House Act of 1879 and before the New York State Tenement House Act of 1901

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Daniel Burnham

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was an American architect and urban planner. He was the Director of Works for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

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Woman's Christian

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is the oldest continuing nonsectarian women's organization worldwid

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Americanization

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is the influence of the United States on the popular culture, technology, business practices, or political techniques of other countries.

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Billy Sunday

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was an American athlete who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century.

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Frances Willard

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was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist

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Eighteenth Amendment

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of the United States Constitution established Prohibition in the United States.

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W.E.B Du Bois

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was an intellectual leader in the United States as a sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor.

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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usually abbreviated as NAACP, is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909.[

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National Urban League

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formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, is a nonpartisan civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States.

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Society of American Indians

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was a progressive group formed in Columbus, Ohio in 1911 by 50 Native Americans, most of them middle-class professional men and women