US History Part 1 of Ch. 22
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15 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 sociological jurisprudence | legal theory that emphasizes the importance not merely of precedent but of contemporary social context in interpreting the law. founded by Louis Brandeis. the people's lawyer. |
| progressives | saw government as a protector, not an oppressor. they were modernizers. accepted the american system as sound, only in need of adjustment. Many drew on Darwinian theories of evolution. |
| not "is it true?" but it is "does it work?" Charles Peirce named this pragmatism | what is the question that describes a progressives way of thinking? |
| John Dewey | believed that environment shaped the patterns of human thought. instead of mindless memorization, he tried to "make each one of our schools an immature community life." his school "Pedagogy." |
| by outlawing alcohol and drugs, stamping out prostitution and slums, and restricting the flood of new immigrants. they imposed their own solutions no matter what the poor or the oppressed thought about it. | what was some of the ways that progressives tried to purify society? |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | who rejected the idea that the traditions of law were constant and universal; that law was a living organism to be interpreted according to experience and the needs of a changing society? |
| Muller vs. Oregon | the Supreme upheld Oregon's right to limit the working hours of laborers and thus legitimized the "Brandeis Brief" |
| McClure's | What is the name of a magazine that included articles to describe misdeeds |
| Ellen Richards (forced to take domestic career rather than a more educational career) | Name the person who has the New England Kitchen- an experiment to reflect a pattern typical of progressive social reform: the mix of professionalism with uplift |
| Jacob Riis (made the book "How the Other Half Lives") | __________ introduced middle-class audiences to urban poverty by writing in vivid detail in the book ______________. |
| Charles Perkins Gilman (Women and Economics) | person who condemned the conventions of womanhood as enslaving and obsolete in her novel _____________. |
| Margaret Sanger | person who sought to free women from chronic pregnancy. |
| Keating-Owen Act | forbid goods manufactured by children to cross state lines |
| 17th Amendment | permitted the direct election of senators |
| 16th Amendment | Howard's graduated income tax (which let Congress raise income tax without apportionment among the states) |
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