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Progressives |
reformers that sought to improve living conditions for the urban poor |
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Jacob Riis |
wrote about lives of immigrants living in New York; "How the Other Half Lives" |
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muckrakers |
journalists who exposed the filth of society |
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Ida Tarbell |
wrote report that condemned business practices of Standard Oil Company |
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Lincoln Steffens |
exposed corruption of city governments in "The Shame of the Cities" |
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Robert M. La Follette |
progressive governor who pushed through an ambitious agenda of reforms that became known as Wisconsin Idea |
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seventeenth amendment |
gave voters power to directly elect U.S. senators |
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Wisconsin Idea |
agenda of reforms pushed by Follette |
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Initiative |
allows citizens to propose new laws |
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Referendum |
allows citizens to vote on a proposed or existing law |
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recall |
allows voters to remove an elected official from office |
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How the Other Half Lives |
best selling book that told how immigrants lived and their bad living conditions |
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The Jungle |
Book that exposed filth in meat-packing industry |
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W.E.B. Du Bois |
activist who believed african americans should have rights immediately; fought prejudice |
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Jane Addams |
Activist who founded Hull House |
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NAACP |
national association for the advancement of colored people whose purpose was to fight for the rights of African Americans |
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Florence Kelley |
reformer who fought child labor/ prejudice against women |
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire |
disaster caused by crowded conditions, lack of workplace safety laws, negligent owners, and aan ill-prepared fire department combined to create a scene of devastation; turning point for reform |
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AFL |
American Federation of Labor; allowed only skilled workers as members |
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Labor Unions |
fought for better working conditions; band of workers united |
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Women's Christian Temperance Movement |
along with Anti-Saloon League, led organized crusade against alcohol |
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Direct Primary |
voters select a party's candidates for public office |
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Prohibition |
called for ban on making, selling, and distributing alcoholic beverages. |
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Frances Willard |
headed WCTU; made it a powerful force for temperance and for rights of women |
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Carry Nation |
Evangelist who smashed saloons in Kansas, which made her a national figure in the temperance cause. |
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18th amendment |
prohibited manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages |
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Susan B. Anthony |
formed national woman suffrage association. arrested for illegally voting. |
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NAWSA |
National American Women Suffrage Association |
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Theodore Roosevelt |
26th president of the U.S.; focused efforts on trust busting, enviromental conservation, and strong foreign policy |
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Square Deal |
T.R.'s 1904 campaign slogan; expressed belief that needs of workers, business, and consumers should be balanced, and called for limiting power of trusts, promoting public health and safety, and improving working conditions |
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Upton Sinclair |
novelist who exposed unsanitary conditions at meatpacking plants |
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Meat inspection act |
required federal inspection of meat shipped across state lines |
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pure food and drug act |
forbade manufacture, sale, or transportation of food and patent medicine containing harmful ingredients |
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newlands reclamation act |
allowed federal government to create irrigation projects to make dry lands productive |
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sherman antitrust act |
didn't allow businesses to become too powerful |
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William Howard Taft |
friend, close advIsor, and successor of T.R. |
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16th amendment |
Granted Congress power to levy taxes based on an individuals income |
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Woodrow Wilson |
Democrat gilded to Victory; fixed Taft's mistakes |
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New Freedom |
plan of reform created by Wilson; called for tariff reductions, banking reform, and stronger antitrust legislation |
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Federal Reserve Act |
created a central fund from which banks could borrow to prevent collapse during a financial panic |
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Clayton Antitrust Act |
clarified and extended Sherman Antitrust Act; prohibited companies from buying the stock of competing companies in order to form a monopoly |
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Alice Paul |
along with Lucy Burns, broke away from NAWSA and formed Congressional union for woman suffrage |
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19th amendment |
gave women full voting rights |
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Carrie Chapman Catt |
suffragist that believed women had to work with lawmakers to win the vote |
