Chapter 18: The Age Of Reform

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Progressivism

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Problems that aroused from reform

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McClure's Magazine

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national magazine that talked about reform

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Muckrakers

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investigative journalists

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Lincoln Steffens

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wrote Tweed Days in St. Louis

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Ida Tarbell

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Daughter of an independent oil producer that was the only female student in a class of 40 males that graduated.

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Ray Stannard Baker

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toured the nation examining the plight of African Americans

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Theodore Dreiser

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depicted workers brutalized by greedy business owners.

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Edith Wharton

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wrote about how the closed-mindedness of elite society leads a good-hearted heroine to social isolation and despair

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Herbert Croly

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argued that the government should use its regulatory and taxation powers to promote the welfare of all its citizens.

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Florence Kelley

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worked tirelessly for the cause of labor laws

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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

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A fire started in a factory and more by the time the firefighters arrived more than 140 workers perished in this fire.

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Rose Schneiderman

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A Women's Trade Union League organizer argued that only a strong working-class movement could bring real change to the workplace.

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freedom of contract

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freedom to negotiate the terms of their employment

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Muller v. Oregon

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an employer challanged the 10-hour-workday law that Florence Kelley had helped push through the Oregon legislature.

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Louis D. Brandeis

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Kelley asked the brother of Goldmark to argue the case.

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closed shop

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a workplace where all the employees must belong to a union.

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socialism

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the system under which the government or worker cooperatives own more factories, utilities and transportation and communications systems.

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Samuel Gompers

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led the AFL (american federation of labor)

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International Ladies' Garment Workers Union

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union that tried to organize unskilled workers

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open shop

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nonunion workplace

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Industrial Workers of the World

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opposed capitalism

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William "Big Bill" Haywood

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made claims for the working class

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Lawrence Veiller

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a settlement house worker that attacked irresponsible tenement owners

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Daniel Burnham

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a leading architect and city planner that produced a magnificent plan for redesigning Chicago.

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prohibition

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a ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages

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Woman's Christian Temperance Union

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led the crusade against alcohol

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Billy Sunday

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a former ballplayer turned Presbyterian evangelist

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18th Amendment

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which barred the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages

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W.E.B. Du Bois

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One of the most influential African American leaders to emerge during this period

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National Urban League

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also fought to racial equality

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Society of American Indians

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most of them middle-class professionals

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Americanization

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process of preparing foreign-born residents for full U.S. citizenship