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28 Cards in this Set
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Black codes
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Passed by South Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana etc. designed to restrict freedom of black labor force and keep people as close to slave status as possible.
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Sand Creek Massacre
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Chief black kettle brought 800 AF was ordered to set up camp at sand creek. They attacked. Kettle held up a US flag and a white truce banner but 700 drunk men slaughtered 200 elderly men, women, and children.-
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American Federation of Labor
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Pure and simple unionism. Union status bargained with employers for better working conditions, higher wages, and shorter hours. Disregarded unskilled workers, racial minorities and immigrants. "Family wage."
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Anti saloon league
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Local campaigns where rural countries and small towns banned liquor within geographical limits.
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Florence Kelley
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Leader of national consumer league. Max hour, min wage laws. Efforts to protect home and housewife, worker and consumer. "Social housekeeping."
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John Muir/ Fight for Hetch hetchy
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Dammed and flooded the Hetch hetchy valley. Promised to ease cities freshwater shortage and to generate hydroelectric power. "Temple" threatened with destruction by the "Devotees of ravaging commercialism."
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Klu klux klan act
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Made violent infringement of civil and political rights a federal crime punishable by national government.
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Good neighbor policy
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Bilateral treaties allowed American businesses to dominate local economies, importing materials at low prices and flooding their markets with U.S. manufactured goods.
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Josiah strong/expansion
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Josiah identified white Americans as the best agents for "Christianizing" and "civilizing" the people of Africa in the Pacific and beyond. He headed west and stationed Indian reservations. Pushed for overseas expansion
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Bureau of education/segregating schools
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Bureau of education study found that per capita expenditures in South averaged $10.32 per year for whites. $2.89 for blacks African-American teachers got paid way less than whites.
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Northern securities v.s. US
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The court held that the stock transactions constituted an illegal combination in restraint of interstate commerce.
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The souls of Black folk - W.E.B. Du Bois
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Du Bois criticized Washington. Souls represented the first effort to embrace african-American culture as a source of collective black strength and something worth persevering.
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Muller v.s. Oregon/Brandeis brief
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Court upheld Oregon law limiting maximum hours for working women. "Maternal functions place her at a disadvantage " Brandeis brief became a common strategy for lawyers defending the constitutionality of progressive legislation.
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Dynamic society, Lester Ward
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Offered an important critique of social Darwinism. Ward argued that the conservative social theorists responsible for social Darwinism had wrongly applied evolutionary theory to human affairs. They mixed up organic evolution with social evolution.
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Pure food and drug act/meat inspection act
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Tested and approved drugs before they went on the market. Meat inspection empowered department of agriculture to inspect and label meat products.
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Hiram Johnson campaign and accomplishments
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Pushed through laws regulating utilities and child labor, mandating an eight hour day for working woman and providing state worker compensation plans.
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National Association for the advancement of colored people
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Emerged from a conference challenging Washington's philosophy. Let struggles to overturn legal and economic barriers to equal opportunity. Bus segregation.
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Margaret Sanger
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"Birth-control "phrase. Campaign provided contraceptive information and devices for women. Fled to Europe after releasing family limitation and would have had to face 45 years in prison.
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New immigration
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Population grew by 32 .7 billion. One third of population growth came from new immigrants in the 1990s. Population hit 300 million in U.S.
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Election of 1912, outcome and "first modern presidential race"
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Between Wilson, Roosevelt, and Taft. Wilson's platform was ambiguous. Wilson won. Republican Party.
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Gen. Federation of women's clubs
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Focus on self-improvement and intellectual pursuits with newer efforts on behalf of working women and children.
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Jane Addams/Hulls House
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Whole house was in slums of Chicago. Had a day nursery, medicine dispensers and advice, boardinghouse, art gallery and a music school. Set up purified milk stations.
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McClure's and "exposure journalism "
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McClure's was America's first large circulation magazine. Exposure journalism paid off handsomely in terms of increased circulation.
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National American woman suffrage association
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League of woman voters. Represented historical mainstream of the suffrage movement. Concentrated on educating female electorate, encouraging women to run for office and support laws for protection of women.
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Chief Joseph and nez perce Indians
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Chief Joseph's band set out with livestock and all possessions. One third soldiers killed when nez perce troops approached US troops and they opened fire Nez Perce surrendered.
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Booker T. Washington and Tuskeegee Institute
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Encourages African Americans to focus on economic improvement and self-reliance rather than political and civil rights.Tuskeegee Institute provided industrial education and moral uplift.
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National consumers league and "white label" campaign
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Manufacturers who met safety sanitary standards could put NCL labels on food and clothing. "Social housekeeping" protected home and housewife.
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"Big" Tim Sullivan and the urban "machines"
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Controlled political life of most large American cities. Delivered services to immigrants and business elite. Tim embodied machine style. He controlled cities gambling and made money off prostitution.
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