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22 Cards in this Set
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Key Themes |
- Middle Class Values - Interest in Helping the Lower Class - Women become Leaders in Progressive Reform - Emphasis on the New 20th Century - Emphasis on Government Intervention |
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Brands of Progressivism |
- Women's Suffrage --> women's right to vote - Expansion of Worker's Rights --> organized labor unions - Improve Democratic Governments --> (1) Fighting Political Machines, (2) Direct Primary, (3) Ballot Initiatives / Referenda, (4) "Judicial Recall" |
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Americanization Campaigns |
- reading a writing requirements for voting - citizenship qualification tests - designed to keep blacks from voting |
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Eugenics |
- human engineering used to get rid of undesirable human traits --> "race purification" |
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"Professionalization" |
- turned many trades into professions --> excluded some people from becoming professionals |
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Yellowstone National Park Act |
- set aside part of Wyoming and Montana as "the people's pleasuring ground" - later the National Park Service formed --> oversee 35 parks and monuments |
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Hull House - Jane Addams and Ellen Gates |
- made to help poor, working class, and immigrants - helped professionalize the field of social work |
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Ellis Island Opens |
- gateway into America for over 12 million immigrants |
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Jacob Riis - "How the Other Half Lives" |
- depicted living conditions --> caused a national uproar - foreign-born immigrants made up a large percentage of the population |
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National Child Labor Committee |
- set the stage for child labor legislation passed during the New Deal |
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Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) |
- combined general unionism with industrial unionism - imagining a utopia brought about by violent overthrow of capitalist regimes |
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Hepburn Act |
- allowed Interstate Commerce Commission to set price caps on railroad rates and expanded its authority |
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Upton Sinclair - "The Jungle" |
- American journalist and novelist - exposed health violations in the American meatpacking industry - led to the Meat Inspection Act |
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"Yellow Journalism" |
- journalism based on crude exaggeration - "yellow journalism" war between William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer |
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Muckraking |
- journalists who attacked established institutions and leader as corrupt |
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Pure Food and Drug Act - Meat Inspection Act |
- consumer protection laws enacted by Congress - led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration --> banned mislabeled food and drug products and inspected products |
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Uprising of the 20,000 |
20,000 shirtwaist makers (most women) successfully strike in NYC with help from the National Women's Trade Union |
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire |
- killed 146 employees (most female) - ensuing outcry led to factory safety reform |
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Lawrence "Bread and Roses" Textile Strike |
- strike of immigrant workers --> led by the IWW - prompted a two-hour pay cut and a shortened workweek |
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Consumers' League |
- exposed child labor and corrupt business practices |
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Children's Bureau |
- dealt with all issues concerning children - the expansion of the social network as a profession |
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Paterson Silk Strike |
- workers demanded eight-hour day and improved conditions - IWW leader arrested |
